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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 255, Issue 6, 2499-2508, 03, 1980

Thyroid hormone nuclear receptor levels are influenced by the acetylation of chromatin-associated proteins

HH Samuels, F Stanley, J Casanova and TC Shao

The thyroid hormone receptor is a chromatin-associated protein which appears to mediate the actions of the thyroid hormones in mammalian cells. Unlike steroid hormone receptors, a cytoplasmic form of the receptor has not been identified, and the factors which govern the nuclear concentrations of the receptor are poorly understood. Using cultured GH1 cells, a rat pituitary cell line, we having previously demonstrated that thyroid hormones reduces the concentration of its receptor by a mechanism which involves the association of the ligand with the receptor binding site (Samuels, H.H., Stanley, F., and Shapiro, L.E. (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 6052-6060). In this study, we demonstrate that n-butyrate and other aliphatic carboxylic acids elicit a reduction of thyroid hormone nuclear receptor levels without altering total cell protein synthetic rates. In contrast, the nuclear association and total cell level of the glucocorticoid receptor is not altered by n-butyrate. Evidence is presented that the aliphatic carboxylic acid-mediated reduction of thyroid hormone nuclear receptor levels is secondary to the inhibitory effect of these compounds on chromatin-associated deacetylases which is reflected as an increase in the acetylation of the nucleosome core histones. Isokinetic gradient centrifugation of chromatin solubilized from GH1 cell nuclei by micrococcal nuclease indicates that the receptor exists as a form associated with high molecular weight chromatin, as a 12.5 S form that sediments slightly faster than the bulk of the mononucleosomes, and as a 6.5 S form which appears to remain associated with low molecular weight chromatin components. Exclusive of the receptor associated with the high molecular weight chromatin, the 6.5 S form represents 80% and the 12.5 S form 10% of the receptor resolved in the gradient. n- Butyrate decreases both forms to the same degree suggesting that they are generated from the same "entity" of chromatin structure. Studies on the reappearance of receptor after restoration of the chromatin to the "normal" acetylated state are consistent with a model in which the affinity of chromatin for newly synthesized receptor is diminished in the "hyperacetylated" state.
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