title: The involvement of polyamines in the activation of vitamin D receptor from porcine intestinal mucosa.
abstract: In the intracellular process of the action of calcitriol, vitamin D receptor is thought to undergo some kind of physiochemical change, called activation, before the receptor binds to the vitamin D response element of the gene. In this paper, the effects of polyamines and their analogues on the sedimentation properties of vitamin D receptor prepared from porcine intestinal mucosa, and on DNA binding activity of the receptor, were studied. In sucrose density gradient analysis, polyamines decreased the sedimentation coefficient of vitamin D receptor in a dose-dependent fashion. Polyamines increased DNA binding activity of vitamin D receptor dose-dependently. These findings show that polyamines can activate vitamin D receptor in vitro. Among naturally existing polyamines, spermidine and spermine, but not putrescine, were effective within their physiological intracellular concentrations, suggesting that both spermidine and spermine can activate vitamin D receptor in vivo as well. Sucrose density gradient analysis using various kinds of polyamine analogues having various numbers of cations showed that the number of cation of polyamines is important for the efficiency to change the sedimentation coefficient of vitamin D receptor, and that the distance between two cationic charges does not play an important role.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Biochemistry, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Morishima
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inaba
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morii
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasuma
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Matsui-Yuasa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otani
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002117:Calcitriol / Q000378:metabolism; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D011073:Polyamines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011700:Putrescine / Q000494:pharmacology; D018167:Receptors, Calcitriol / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D013095:Spermidine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D013096:Spermine / Q000494:pharmacology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D011073:Polyamines; D018167:Receptors, Calcitriol; D013096:Spermine; D002117:Calcitriol; D013095:Spermidine; D011700:Putrescine