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Vol. 18, Issue 10, 3941-3951, October 2007

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Aberrant Chromatin Remodeling by Retinoic Acid Receptor Fusion Proteins Assessed at the Single-Cell Level

Jihui Qiu^*, Ying Huang, Guoqiang Chen, Zhu Chen, David J. Tweardy^*,, and Shuo Dong^*,

*Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Disease, and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030; and Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China

Submitted March 16, 2007; Revised July 9, 2007; Accepted July 20, 2007
Monitoring Editor: Wendy Bickmore

Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by specific chromosomal translocations, which generate fusion proteins such as promyelocytic leukemia (PML)-retinoic acid receptor (RAR) and promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger (PLZF)-RAR (X-RAR). In this study, we have applied lac operator array systems to study the effects of X-RAR versus wild-type RAR on large-scale chromatin structure. The targeting of these enhanced cyan fluorescent protein-lac repressor-tagged RAR-containing proteins to the gene-amplification chromosomal region by lac operator repeats led to local chromatin condensation, recruitment of nuclear receptor corepressor, and histone deacetylase complex. The addition of retinoic acid (RA) induced large-scale chromatin decondensation in cells expressing RAR; however, cells expressing X-RAR, especially PML-RAR, demonstrated insensitive response to this effect of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). Although we did not reveal differences in RA-dependent colocalization of either silencing mediator for retinoid and thyroid or steroid receptor coactivator (SRC)-1 with RAR versus X-RAR, the hormone-independent association between SRC-1 and X-RAR on the array has been identified. Rather, compared with cells expressing RAR, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching of live transfected cells, demonstrated decreased mobility of SRC-1 on the X-RAR–bound chromatin. Thus, the impaired ability of APL fusion proteins to activate gene transcription in response to ATRA corresponds to their reduced ability to remodel chromatin, which may link to their ability to impair the mobility of key nuclear receptor coregulators.

The online version of this article contains supplemental material at MBC Online (http://www.molbiolcell.org).

Address correspondence to: Shuo Dong (sdong{at}bcm.tmc.edu) or David J. Tweardy (dtweardy{at}bcm.tmc.edu)