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This study investigates the signaling pathways that lead to acute augmentation of secretagogue-induced LH secretion, the physiologically relevant manifestation of which is LHRH self-potentiation. The consequence of LHRH self-potentiation is an augmented LH secretory response to subsequent exposure to the peptide. Although the mechanism for LHRH self-potentiation remains obscure, the second messenger cAMP and the steroid hormone progesterone share common characteristics in their acute augmentation of secretagogue-induced pituitary LH secretion, suggesting that cross-talk between the peptide and steroid hormone pathways may occur. The progesterone receptor would represent a point of convergence of several effectors known to augment secretagogue-induced LH secretion. In rat anterior pituitary cells cultured in the absence of progesterone, it was found that the progesterone receptor antagonist RU486 (2 nM) inhibits LHRH self-potentiation induced by hourly pulses of 1 nM LHRH. In the absence of added progesterone, RU486 also suppresses the augmentation of LHRH-stimulated LH secretion which is a consequence of increasing [cAMP]i with either 8-bromo-cAMP (1 mM) or forskolin (1 microM) treatment. The extent of the suppression of the cAMP action in the presence of RU486 is similar to that found with the RNA synthesis inhibitor, actinomycin D. The data are consistent with the hypothesis that a LHRH-stimulated protein kinase A cascade acts, in part, through transcriptional activation of the progesterone receptor. It is concluded that the mechanism of LHRH self-potentiation requires cross-talk with the progesterone receptor.
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PMID:A pathway for luteinizing hormone releasing-hormone self-potentiation: cross-talk with the progesterone receptor. 131 80

Recently, it was shown that lipoprotein lipase (LPL) was produced in neonatal but not in adult rat liver. In an attempt to further define the mechanism involved in liver LPL expression, we identified a neonatal mouse hepatoma cell line, BWTG3, capable of producing LPL. The regulation of LPL expression by various extracellular stimuli was investigated in this cell line. Progesterone caused a rise in LPL production by BWTG3 cells. Other hormones tested, such as insulin, glucagon, adrenalin, testosterone, and thyroid hormone, had no effect on LPL production. The effects of progesterone on LPL production showed slow kinetics reaching a maximum 24 h after addition. Cotransfection of a progesterone receptor expression vector with a 5'-LPL-CAT reporter construct resulted in an induction of CAT activity, suggesting that the increase in LPL accumulation after progesterone was linked to transcriptional induction of the LPL gene. Stimuli causing an elevation of protein kinase A activity in the cells also increased LPL production. Three agents capable of elevating intracellular cAMP levels, i.e., forskolin, dBcAMP, and choleratoxin, caused an elevation of LPL production. The increase in LPL activity caused by forskolin and choleratoxin was paralleled by an elevation of LPL mRNA levels, while dBcAMP only induced a small elevation of LPL mRNA levels. The increase in LPL production was shown to be linked to the stimulation of the PKA signal transduction pathway and was apparently transmitted via the transcription factor CREB. No effect of the stimulation of protein kinase C or calcium/calmodulin-dependent kinase on LPL production was detected.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Lipoprotein lipase expression in undifferentiated hepatoma cells is regulated by progesterone and protein kinase A. 132 33

Phosphorylation of immunopurified chicken oviduct progesterone receptor (PR) was studied in intact cells and under cell-free conditions. Cytosol PR was isolated by incubation with anti-PR monoclonal antibody alpha PR22 adsorbed to protein A-Sepharose and suspended in a reaction mixture containing 10 mM Mg2+, 0.1 mM [gamma-32P]ATP, and the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAMP-PK) from bovine heart. All three major proteins of avian PR (PR-A, 79 kDa; PR-B, 110 kDa; 90 kDa) incorporated 32P-radioactivity on serine residues. The phosphorylation reaction was inhibited by synthetic inhibitors of protein kinases, H-8 and 20-residue peptide IP20. A 40 degrees C preexposure of PR oligomer increased phosphorylation of the 90-kDa protein, known to be a heat-shock protein (hsp-90). The extent of the phosphorylation reaction was temperature-dependent as the 32P-incorporation into PR-A and PR-B increased gradually, showing a maximum at 37 degrees C. Multiple phosphopeptides (4-7) were resolved by two-dimensional electrophoresis chromatography following cleavage of 32P-labeled peptides with trypsin. Both A and B forms of receptor showed similar phosphorylation patterns with B receptor digestion exhibiting two to three additional peptides. Under physiological conditions, preincubation of oviduct mince with forskolin, a regulator of intracellular cAMP levels, caused a greater extent of phosphorylation of PR-A and PR-B proteins. The results of this study demonstrate that chicken oviduct PR is an excellent substrate for the action of cAMP-PK in vitro and that this enzyme may be a physiological regulator of progesterone action in the oviduct.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of chicken oviduct progesterone receptor by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. 141 66

The rabbit progesterone receptor undergoes dual regulation at the level of transcription: positive by estrogens and negative by progestins. The two aspects of this regulation are mediated by a single intragenic estrogen-responsive element. Estrogen receptor binding to this element has been demonstrated but progestin down-regulation does not proceed through DNA binding of the progesterone receptor. This result suggests some kind of protein-protein interaction--direct or indirect--between estrogen and progesterone receptors. At the post-transcriptional level, the progesterone receptor undergoes a hormone-dependent hyperphosphorylation of serine residues localized in the N-terminal region. Studies of progesterone receptor mutants have determined the influence of the different receptor domains in the phosphorylation mechanism. A casein kinase copurifies with the receptor. The role of this phosphorylation remains to be determined.
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PMID:Control of biosynthesis and post-transcriptional modification of the progesterone receptor. 153 92

Primary uterine cell cultures were used to study multifactor regulation of progesterone receptor (PR) and the signal transduction pathways which may serve to mediate that regulation. Increases in intracellular cAMP, brought about by treatment with cholera toxin plus isobutyl methyl xanthine or by addition of 8-bromo-cAMP, result in 6- to 7-fold increases in the intracellular content of PR as monitored by [3H]R5020 binding and by Western immunoblot using anti-PR antibodies. In these primary cultures of uterine cells isolated from 19-day-old immature rats, 8-bromo-cAMP evokes significant increases in PR by 8 h with maximal increases by 24 h. This time course and magnitude of PR stimulation are similar to those evoked by maximally effective concentrations of estradiol (3 x 10(-9) M) or IGF-I (20 ng/ml). Dose-response studies reveal that 10(-6) to 10(-4) M concentrations of 8-bromo-cAMP (8-Br-cAMP) elicit a maximal response. In contrast, 8-bromo-cGMP over a wide concentration range was unable to elevate cellular PR levels. Under these culture conditions, cell proliferation was not altered by treatment with any of these agents. Although estrogen, cAMP, and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) may act via different pathways to increase PR, the effects evoked by maximally effective concentrations of these agents are not additive implying involvement of a common component. The increases in PR evoked by estradiol, cAMP, or IGF-I are markedly suppressed by treatment with antiestrogen (ICI 164,384) or the cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinase inhibitor H8 or the protein kinase A inhibitor PKI, indicating the involvement of the estrogen receptor and phosphorylation pathways in PR regulation by these three agents. The present studies identify cAMP, as well as estrogen and IGF-I, as important regulators of the level of PR in uterine cells and suggest that multiple factors, including those affecting intracellular cAMP levels, might influence responsiveness to progestins via regulation of the intracellular PR content.
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PMID:Progesterone receptor regulation in uterine cells: stimulation by estrogen, cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, and insulin-like growth factor I and suppression by antiestrogens and protein kinase inhibitors. 170 63

We have examined the ability of estradiol (E2) to regulate the expression of three mRNAs [for pS2, progesterone receptor (PR), and estrogen receptor (ER)], known to be under E2 regulation in the parental E2 growth-responsive MCF-7 cells, in an E2 growth-independent MCF-7 K3), previously isolated from the parental estrogen-dependent MCF-7 K1 human breast cancer cells after long term growth in vitro in the absence of estrogen, acquired estrogen-independent growth in vitro as well as the ability to form tumors in nude mice in vivo without estrogen. We find that the content of pS2 mRNA and the transcription rate of the pS2 gene, while being markedly increased by E2 in MCF-7 K1 cells, are no longer stimulated by E2 in this subline, although protein kinase activators tremendously increase (greater than 10-fold) pS2 mRNA in both K1 and K3 cells. In fact, basal pS2 mRNA levels are elevated 2.8 +/- 0.4-fold in MCF-7 K3 cells, and E2 evokes a concentration-dependent suppression of the pS2 mRNA level. In contrast, PR mRNA in the K3 subline, as in the parental K1 cells, is still up-regulated by E2, and ER mRAN content and the ER mRNA transcription rate are still down-regulated by E2 and show normal E2 dose-response relationships, implying that the ER in this subline is functional. These results demonstrate that the progression to estrogen-independent growth in K3 cells is accompanied by a change in the regulation of some estrogen-induced genes by estrogen. While PR and ER retain normal patterns of regulation by E2, the pS2 gene in the estrogen growth-independent K3 subline is differentially affected and is no longer stimulated by E2. Our data suggest that this altered regulation of the pS2 gene is probably not caused by a defect of the ER or ER regulation in this subline.
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PMID:Differential regulation of gene expression by estrogen in estrogen growth-independent and -dependent MCF-7 human breast cancer cell sublines. 172 71

We have reported previously that chicken progesterone receptor (PR) is phosphorylated in vivo in response to progesterone administration. Three phosphorylation sites have been reported, two of which show increased phosphorylation in response to hormone and one which is phosphorylated only in response to hormone administration. We found previously that PR lacking the hormone-dependent phosphorylation is active in an in vitro transcription assay. Since the source of general transcription factors is a HeLa nuclear extract which contains many kinases, we have analyzed the receptor for phosphorylation during the in vitro transcription assay. We report here that the receptor is rapidly and efficiently phosphorylated on new sites, causing a change in receptor mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-gels. This phosphorylation is strictly dependent upon the presence of double stranded DNA. A DNA-activated protein kinase with similar properties has been isolated previously from HeLa cell nuclei. We find that phosphorylation of PR with this purified enzyme mimics the phosphorylation observed in the transcription assay. These data suggest that a previously undetected additional series of DNA-dependent phosphorylations may be required for activation of the PR.
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PMID:Chicken progesterone receptor is phosphorylated by a DNA-dependent protein kinase during in vitro transcription assays. 173 74

The progesterone receptor (PR) in the chicken oviduct is a phosphoprotein that regulates gene transcription in the presence of progesterone. Treatment with progesterone in vivo stimulates phosphorylation of the progesterone receptor. With transient transfection assays, the present work has tested whether phosphorylation participates in the regulation of PR-mediated transcription. Treatment with 8-bromo-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (8-Br cAMP), a stimulator of cAMP-dependent protein kinase [protein kinase A (PKA)], mimicked progesterone-dependent, receptor-mediated transcription in the absence of progesterone. Inhibition of PKA blocked hormone action. Treatment with okadaic acid, an inhibitor of protein phosphatases 1 and 2A, stimulated transcription in a manner similar to that of progesterone. These observations suggest that phosphorylation of the PR or other proteins in the transcription complex can modulate PR-mediated transcription in vivo.
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PMID:Regulation of progesterone receptor-mediated transcription by phosphorylation. 217 46

The present studies examine the effects of in vivo and in situ progesterone treatment in the regulation of site-specific phosphorylation of the chicken oviduct progesterone receptor (PR). By gas-phase protein sequencing we have identified three hormonally regulated phosphorylation sites: Ser-211, Ser-260, and Ser-530. We determined phosphorylation stoichiometries by analyzing the amounts of phosphorylated and dephosphorylated serine at each site. Stoichiometries of sites 211 and 260 were about 20% under basal conditions and increased 1.5-2-fold by in situ progesterone treatment. Site 530 was virtually absent under basal conditions and induced to greater than 33% by in situ progesterone treatment. We tested several protein kinases for phosphorylation of the PR in vitro on these sites or peptides containing these sites. We found that the catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase mimicked the in vivo, hormone-induced altered mobility of PRs in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Both the in vivo and in vitro alterations were reversed by alkaline phosphatase. Finally, we showed that cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylated Ser-528.
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PMID:Hormonal regulation and identification of chicken progesterone receptor phosphorylation sites. 239 63

We have examined the potential for using calf uterine progesterone receptor (PR) as a substrate for phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAMP-PK), PR was found to interact with anti-PR monoclonal antibody alpha PR6 (Sullivan et al., 1986), which was to immunopurify the receptor. Protein staining of the purified preparation revealed the presence of two major bands corresponding to 114 kDa and 90 kDa peptides; only 114 kDa peptide could be photoaffinity-labeled with R5020. The 90 kDa peptide co-migrated with 90 kDa heat shock protein (hsp-90) precipitated by anti-hsp-90 monoclonal antibody AC88 (Riehl et al., 1985). Incubation of the immunopurified protein-A-Sepharose-adsorbed PR with the catalytic subunit of cAMP-PK in the presence of gamma-[32P]ATP and divalent cations resulted in a Mg++-dependent incorporation of 32P-radioactivity into both the 114 kDa and the hsp-90 peptides. Small 32P-incorporation was also seen in the 114 kDa peptide in the presence of Mn++. A 60 degrees C preincubation of immunopurified PR increased the extent of phosphorylation of the hsp-90 peptide. A pretreatment with alkaline phosphatase reduced the ability of PR to act as a substrate while the steroid occupancy of PR appeared to enhance the phosphorylation of the 114 kDa peptide. The differential cation requirement for the phosphorylation of 114 kDa and hsp-90 peptides and a selective hormone-dependent increase in the phosphorylation of the 114 kDa peptide suggest a possible role of phosphorylation in mediating progesterone action in the calf uterus.
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PMID:Phosphorylation of calf uterine progesterone receptor by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. 254 44


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