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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
卷 11, 期 9, 页码 1093-U111出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1922
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- NIH
- National Cancer Institute
- Center for Cancer Research
- BBSRC [BB/C51297X/1]
- Wellcome Trust [074112/Z/04/Z, 075548/Z/04/Z]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C51297X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [Z01BC010308, ZIABC010308] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Studies on glucocorticoid receptor (GR) action typically assess gene responses by long-term stimulation with synthetic hormones. As corticosteroids are released from adrenal glands in a circadian and high-frequency (ultradian) mode, such treatments may not provide an accurate assessment of physiological hormone action. Here we demonstrate that ultradian hormone stimulation induces cyclic GR-mediated transcriptional regulation, or gene pulsing, both in cultured cells and in animal models. Equilibrium receptor-occupancy of regulatory elements precisely tracks the ligand pulses. Nascent RNA transcripts from GR-regulated genes are released in distinct quanta, demonstrating a profound difference between the transcriptional programs induced by ultradian and constant stimulation. Gene pulsing is driven by rapid GR exchange with response elements and by GR recycling through the chaperone machinery, which promotes GR activation and reactivation in response to the ultradian hormone release, thus coupling promoter activity to the naturally occurring fluctuations in hormone levels. The GR signalling pathway has been optimized for a prompt and timely response to fluctuations in hormone levels, indicating that biologically accurate regulation of gene targets by GR requires an ultradian mode of hormone stimulation.
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