TY - JOUR
T1 - ERE-independent ERα target genes differentially expressed in human breast tumors
AU - Glidewell-Kenney, Christine
AU - Weiss, Jeffrey
AU - Lee, Eun Jig
AU - Pillai, Suresh
AU - Ishikawa, Toshio
AU - Ariazi, Eric A.
AU - Jameson, J. Larry
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge Dr. Eric Bremer for assistance with Affymetrix array hybridizations and the Northwestern University Center for Genetic Medicine for technical assistance with the cDNA microarray experiments. MDA-MB231 breast carcinoma cells were a gift from Dr. V. Craig Jordan, (Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL). Low density microarrays were printed by the Microarray Platform of The Prostate Centre at Vancouver General Hospital through the Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE. This research was funded by NIH grants PO1 HD21921 (JLJ, JW), T32 GM008061 (CGK), and a SPORE in Breast Cancer P50 CA89018 (JLJ, JW, EJL).
PY - 2005/12/21
Y1 - 2005/12/21
N2 - The classical pathway for estrogen receptor (ER) signaling is mediated by ER binding to an estrogen response element (ERE) in DNA. ERα can also act via a nonclassical pathway by altering the activities of other transcription factors (e.g., Sp1, AP-1, or NF-κB) at their cognate sites on DNA. We previously generated a mutant form of ERα (E207A/G208A) that does not bind to EREs, and therefore lacks signaling via the classical pathway but retains signaling via the nonclassical pathway. In the current study, we introduce this mutant ERα into MDA-MB231 ERα-negative breast carcinoma cells to identify nonclassical pathway genes that respond to 17β-estradiol (E2), selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) tamoxifen (TAM) or raloxifene (RAL), or the estrogen antagonist ICI 182,780 (ICI). Consistent with a role for nonclassical signaling in SERM action, microarray analyses identify 268 responsive nonclassical ERα pathway target genes. ICI elicits the largest number of nonclassical genes, followed by RAL, TAM, and E2. Custom microarrays containing identified nonclassical ERα responsive genes are used to compare gene expression in human breast tumor (n = 34) and normal mammary epithelial cell (n = 9) samples. A subset of nonclassical genes (n = 32) are differentially expressed in breast tumors. In summary, we show that nonclassical ERα pathway target genes exhibit a range of transcriptional responses to SERMs and identify targets of this pathway as potentially relevant to breast cancer. The identification of nonclassical ERα target genes offers new insight into estrogen receptor signaling and cross talk with pathways that mediate breast tumor response to SERM therapy.
AB - The classical pathway for estrogen receptor (ER) signaling is mediated by ER binding to an estrogen response element (ERE) in DNA. ERα can also act via a nonclassical pathway by altering the activities of other transcription factors (e.g., Sp1, AP-1, or NF-κB) at their cognate sites on DNA. We previously generated a mutant form of ERα (E207A/G208A) that does not bind to EREs, and therefore lacks signaling via the classical pathway but retains signaling via the nonclassical pathway. In the current study, we introduce this mutant ERα into MDA-MB231 ERα-negative breast carcinoma cells to identify nonclassical pathway genes that respond to 17β-estradiol (E2), selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) tamoxifen (TAM) or raloxifene (RAL), or the estrogen antagonist ICI 182,780 (ICI). Consistent with a role for nonclassical signaling in SERM action, microarray analyses identify 268 responsive nonclassical ERα pathway target genes. ICI elicits the largest number of nonclassical genes, followed by RAL, TAM, and E2. Custom microarrays containing identified nonclassical ERα responsive genes are used to compare gene expression in human breast tumor (n = 34) and normal mammary epithelial cell (n = 9) samples. A subset of nonclassical genes (n = 32) are differentially expressed in breast tumors. In summary, we show that nonclassical ERα pathway target genes exhibit a range of transcriptional responses to SERMs and identify targets of this pathway as potentially relevant to breast cancer. The identification of nonclassical ERα target genes offers new insight into estrogen receptor signaling and cross talk with pathways that mediate breast tumor response to SERM therapy.
KW - Estrogen receptor alpha
KW - Microarray (human breast tumor)
KW - Nonclassical
KW - SERM
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mce.2005.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.mce.2005.10.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 16298037
AN - SCOPUS:30044439766
VL - 245
SP - 53
EP - 59
JO - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
JF - Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
SN - 0303-7207
IS - 1-2
ER -