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Guang-Hui Liu1, Jing Qu, Xun Shen
1Institute of Biophysics and Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Abstract:
PPARalpha, a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, and thioredoxin, a critical redox-regulator in cells, were found to form a negative feedback loop, which autoregulates transcriptional activity of PPARalpha. Thioredoxin was identified as a target gene of PPARalpha. Activation of PPARalpha leads to increase of thioredoxin expression as well as its translocation from cytoplasm to nucleus, whereas ectopic overexpression of thioredoxin in the nucleus dramatically inhibited both constitutive and ligand-dependent PPARalpha activation. As PPARalpha-target genes, the expression of muscle carnitine palmitoyltransferase I, medium chain acyl CoA dehydrogenase, and apolipoprotein A-I were significantly down-regulated by nucleus-targeted thioredoxin at transcriptional or protein level. The suppression of PPARalpha transcriptional activity by Trx could be enhanced by overexpression of thioredoxin reductase or knockdown of thioredoxin-interacting protein, but abrogated by mutating the redox-active sites of thioredoxin. Mammalian one-hybrid assays showed that thioredoxin inhibited PPARalpha activity by modulating its AF-1 transactivation domain. It was also demonstrated by electrophoretic mobility-shift assay that thioredoxin inhibited the binding of PPARalpha to the PPAR-response element. Together, it is speculated that the reported negative-feedback loop may be essential for maintaining the homeostasis of PPARalpha activity.
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