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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 5, 3280-3285, February 1, 2002

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PATZ Attenuates the RNF4-mediated Enhancement of Androgen Receptor-dependent Transcription^*

Raffaela Pero, Francesca Lembo, Emiliano Antonio Palmieri, Carmen Vitiello, Monica Fedele, Alfredo Fusco, Carmelo Bruno Bruni^§, and Lorenzo Chiariotti^§¶

From the  Centro di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale del CNR "G. Salvatore," Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, "L. Califano" Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II," via S. Pansini, 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy and the ^¶ Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica "G. Salvatore," Università degli Studi di Catanzaro "Magna Graecia," via Tommaso Campanella 115, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy

PATZ is a transcriptional repressor affecting the basal activity of different promoters, whereas RNF4 is a transcriptional activator. The association of PATZ with RNF4 switches the activation to repression of selected basal promoters. Because RNF4 interacts also with the androgen receptor (AR) functioning as a coactivator and, in turn, RNF4 associates with PATZ, we investigated whether PATZ functions as an AR coregulator. We demonstrate that PATZ does not influence directly the AR response but acts as an AR corepressor in the presence of RNF4. Such repression is not dependent on histone deacetylases. A mutant RNF4 that does not bind PATZ but enhances AR-dependent transcription is not influenced by PATZ, demonstrating that the repression by PATZ occurs only upon binding to RNF4. We also demonstrate that RNF4, AR, and PATZ belong to the same complex in vivo also in the presence of androgen, suggesting that repression is not mediated by the displacement of RNF4 from AR. Finally, we show that the repression of endogenous PATZ expression by antisense expression plasmids in LNCaP cells results in a stronger androgen response. Our findings demonstrate that PATZ is a novel AR coregulator that acts by modulating the effect of a coactivator. This could represent a novel and more general mechanism to finely tune the androgen response.

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