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Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on April 10, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm179
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Selective use of multiple vitamin D response elements underlies the 1 {alpha} ,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3-mediated negative regulation of the human CYP27B1 gene

Mikko M. Turunen, Thomas W. Dunlop, Carsten Carlberg and Sami Väisänen*

Department of Biochemistry, University of Kuopio, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +358-17-163064; Fax: +358-17-2811510; Email: vaisanen{at}messi.uku.fi

Received December 15, 2006. Revised March 12, 2007. Accepted March 12, 2007.

The human 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) 1{alpha}-hydroxylase, which is encoded by the CYP27B1 gene, catalyzes the metabolic activation of the 25(OH)D3 into 1{alpha},25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1{alpha},25(OH)2D3), the most biologically potent vitamin D3 metabolite. The most important regulator of CYP27B1 gene activity is 1{alpha},25(OH)2D3 itself, which down-regulates the gene. The down-regulation of the CYP27B1 gene has been proposed to involve a negative vitamin D response element (nVDRE) that is located ~500 bp upstream from transcription start site (TSS). In this study, we reveal the existence of two new VDR-binding regions in the distal promoter, 2.6 and 3.2 kb upstream from the TSS, that bind vitamin D receptor–retinoid X receptor complexes. Since the down regulation of the CYP27B1 gene is tissue- and cell-type selective, a comparative study was done for the new 1{alpha},25(OH)2D3-responsive regions in HEK-293 human embryonic kidney and MCF-7 human breast cancer cells that reflect tissues that, respectively, are permissive and non-permissive to the phenomenon of 1{alpha},25(OH)2D3-mediated down-regulation of this gene. We found significant differences in the composition of protein complexes associated with these CYP27B1 promoter regions in the different cell lines, some of which reflect the capability of transcriptional repression of the CYP27B1 gene in these different cells. In addition, chromatin architecture differed with respect to chromatin looping in the two cell lines, as the new distal regions were differentially connected with the proximal promoter. This data explains, in part, why the human CYP27B1 gene is repressed in HEK-293 but not in MCF-7 cells.


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