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MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 12, Pages 2392-2405Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1210/me.2010-0226
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- National Basic Science Research and Development Project of China [2006CB504002, 2006CB944002]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Knowledge Innovation Program [KSCX1-YW-R-54]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30930053, 30770815, 30730026]
- National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center of the United States [2 D43 TW000627-11, -12]
- CFDA [93,989]
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Epididymal function depends on androgen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR), although most of the direct AR target genes in epididymis remain unknown. Here we globally mapped the AR binding regions in mouse caput epididymis in which AR is highly expressed. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing indicated that AR bound selectively to 19,377 DNA regions, the majority of which were intergenic and intronic. Motif analysis showed that 94% of the AR binding regions harbored consensus androgen response elements enriched with multiple binding motifs that included nuclear factor 1 and activator protein 2 sites consistent with combinatorial regulation. Unexpectedly, AR binding regions showed limited conservation across species, regardless of whether the metric for conservation was based on local sequence similarity or the presence of consensus androgen response elements. Further analysis suggested the AR target genes are involved in diverse biological themes that include lipid metabolism and sperm maturation. Potential novel mechanisms of AR regulation were revealed at individual genes such as cysteine-rich secretory protein 1. The composite studies provide new insights into AR regulation under physiological conditions and a global resource of AR binding sites in a normal androgen-responsive tissue. (Molecular Endocrinology 24: 2392-2405, 2010)
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