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The Retinoid Antagonist MX781 Induces Clusterin Expression in Prostate Cancer Cells via Heat Shock Factor-1 and Activator Protein-1 Transcription Factors

Yolanda Bayon, Maria A. Ortiz, Francisco J. Lopez-Hernandez, Philip H. Howe and F. Javier Piedrafita
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DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-3657 Published August 2004
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Retinoids mediate numerous biological responses through the transcriptional activation of nuclear retinoid receptors. Due to their antiproliferative activity, retinoids have shown promise as anticancer agents. Synthetic analogs have been described that selectively activate one subset of the retinoid receptors or inhibit their transcriptional activity. Some of these compounds exhibit strong anticancer activity, which is associated with their ability to induce apoptosis. Here we describe that the retinoid antagonist MX781 causes a substantial increase of clusterin mRNA and protein levels in prostate carcinoma cells. In contrast, retinoic acid and other synthetic agonists and antagonists show no effect on clusterin mRNA/protein levels. Induction of clusterin mRNA is associated with transcriptional activation of the clusterin promoter, which requires the proximal −218-bp region containing binding sites for heat shock factor (HSF)-1, activator protein (AP)-2, and AP-1 transcription factors. MX781 slightly induces AP-1 DNA binding activity, and mutation of the AP-1 site differentially affects the activation of the clusterin promoter in a cell type-specific manner. In contrast, a robust increase of HSF-1 DNA binding activity is observed in all cancer cell lines examined, and mutation of the heat shock element site in the clusterin promoter completely abolishes MX781-induced transcriptional activation in PC3 and DU145 cells. Other agonist retinoid-related molecules also induce AP-1 activity, but not HSF-1, and elicit no effect on clusterin expression levels. These data point to HSF-1 as an important factor regulating clusterin expression in response to MX781, although AP-1 activity may also participate in a cell type-specific manner.

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  • Grant support: NIH Grants CA 75033 and CA 55681 and California Cancer Research Program Grant 00-00778V-20253 (to F. J. Piedrafita).

  • The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

  • Note: Y. Bayon and M. A. Ortiz contributed equally to this work.

  • Requests for reprints: F. Javier Piedrafita, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, 10835 Altman Row, San Diego, CA 92121. Phone: (858) 410-4188; Fax: (858) 450-3251; E-mail: jpiedrafita{at}skcc.org

  • Received November 21, 2003.
  • Revision received June 8, 2004.
  • Accepted June 14, 2004.
  • ©2004 American Association for Cancer Research.
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August 2004
Volume 64, Issue 16
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The Retinoid Antagonist MX781 Induces Clusterin Expression in Prostate Cancer Cells via Heat Shock Factor-1 and Activator Protein-1 Transcription Factors
Yolanda Bayon, Maria A. Ortiz, Francisco J. Lopez-Hernandez, Philip H. Howe and F. Javier Piedrafita
Cancer Res August 15 2004 (64) (16) 5905-5912; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-3657

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The Retinoid Antagonist MX781 Induces Clusterin Expression in Prostate Cancer Cells via Heat Shock Factor-1 and Activator Protein-1 Transcription Factors
Yolanda Bayon, Maria A. Ortiz, Francisco J. Lopez-Hernandez, Philip H. Howe and F. Javier Piedrafita
Cancer Res August 15 2004 (64) (16) 5905-5912; DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-03-3657
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