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A Role for Thyroid Hormone Transporters in Transcriptional Regulation by Thyroid Hormone Receptors

Division of Molecular Physiology (J.W.A.R., F.E.B., R.W.M., G.R.C., P.M.T.) School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, Scotland, United Kingdom; Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development (Y.-B.S.), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5431; and Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (Y.H.), Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Dr. Peter M. Taylor, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, MSI/WTB Complex, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, United Kingdom. E-mail. p.m.taylor{at}dundee.ac.uk.

Thyroid hormones (THs) must be taken up by target cells to act at the genomic level through binding to nuclear thyroid hormone receptors (TRs). Extensive study has been made of mechanisms by which TH-bound TRs regulate transcription, yet little is known about the critical upstream step, i.e. how THs enter the cell. Growing evidence suggests that saturable transport mechanisms mediate the greater part of TH movement across the plasma membrane and have important roles in the regulation of TH bioavailability. For example, System L is a multifunctional transport system serving as a plasma membrane transporter of THs and amino acids in mammalian cells. We have used two complementary systems, the Xenopus oocyte (which has negligible basal System L activity) and the mammalian BeWo cell line (which has System L activity for TH transport), to investigate the role of this representative TH transporter in nuclear action of THs. We demonstrate that overexpression of System L in Xenopus oocytes increases both cytoplasmic and nuclear delivery of THs from external medium and also enhances transcriptional activation by TRs. Conversely, blocking endogenous System L activity in BeWo cells with specific inhibitors reduces both TH uptake and TR function. These results indicate that plasma membrane TH transporters such as System L may have important roles in gene regulation by TRs.

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Nuclear Receptors:   TRα  |  TRβ

Ligands:   Thyroid hormone

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