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Long-acting β2-adrenoceptor agonists enhance glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated transcription by gene-specific mechanisms rather than generic effects via GR
- Source :
- Mol Pharmacol
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In asthma, the clinical efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) is enhanced by long-acting β(2)-adrenoceptor agonists (LABAs). ICSs, or more accurately, glucocorticoids, promote therapeutically relevant changes in gene expression, and, in primary human bronchial epithelial cells (pHBECs) and airway smooth muscle cells, this genomic effect can be enhanced by a LABA. Modeling this interaction in human bronchial airway epithelial BEAS-2B cells transfected with a 2× glucocorticoid response element (2×GRE)–driven luciferase reporter showed glucocorticoid-induced transcription to be enhanced 2- to 3-fold by LABA. This glucocorticoid receptor (GR; NR3C1)–dependent effect occurred rapidly, was insensitive to protein synthesis inhibition, and was maximal when glucocorticoid and LABA were added concurrently. The ability of LABA to enhance GR-mediated transcription was not associated with changes in GR expression, serine (Ser(203), Ser(211), Ser(226)) phosphorylation, ligand affinity, or nuclear translocation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated that glucocorticoid-induced recruitment of GR to the integrated 2×GRE reporter and multiple gene loci, whose mRNAs were unaffected or enhanced by LABA, was also unchanged by LABA. Transcriptomic analysis revealed glucocorticoid-induced mRNAs were variably enhanced, unaffected, or repressed by LABA. Thus, events leading to GR binding at target genes are not the primary explanation for how LABAs modulate GR-mediated transcription. As many glucocorticoid-induced genes are independently induced by LABA, gene-specific control by GR- and LABA-activated transcription factors may explain these observations. Because LABAs promote similar effects in pHBECs, therapeutic relevance is likely. These data illustrate the need to understand gene function(s), and the mechanisms leading to gene-specific induction, if existing ICS/LABA combination therapies are to be improved.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Pharmacology
Hormone response element
Chemistry
Transfection
Articles
Cell biology
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Glucocorticoid receptor
Transcription (biology)
Gene expression
medicine
Molecular Medicine
Chromatin immunoprecipitation
Transcription factor
Glucocorticoid
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mol Pharmacol
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....11efd5956ee68134fdedd5446a798bfc