Jun Dimerization Protein 2 Activates Mc2r Transcriptional Activity: Role of Phosphorylation and SUMOylation.
Jun dimerization protein 2 (JDP2), a basic leucine zipper transcription factor, is involved in numerous biological and cellular processes such as cancer development and regulation, cell-cycle regulation, skeletal muscle and osteoclast differentiation, progesterone receptor signaling, and antibacterial immunity. Though JDP2 is widely expressed in mammalian tissues, its function in gonads and adrenals (such as regulation of steroidogenesis and adrenal development) is largely unknown. Herein, we find that JDP2 mRNA and proteins are expressed in mouse adrenal gland tissues. Moreover, overexpression of JDP2 in Y1 mouse adrenocortical cancer cells increases the level of melanocortin 2 receptor (MC2R) protein. Notably, Mc2r promoter activity is activated by JDP2 in a dose-dependent manner. Next, by mapping the Mc2r promoter, we show that cAMP response elements (between -1320 and -720-bp) are mainly required for Mc2r activation by JDP2 and demonstrate that -830-bp is the major JDP2 binding site by real-time chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis. Mutations of cAMP response elements on Mc2r promoter disrupts JDP2 effect. Furthermore, we demonstrate that removal of phosphorylation of JDP2 results in attenuated transcriptional activity of Mc2r. Finally, we show that JDP2 is a candidate for SUMOylation and SUMOylation affects JDP2-mediated Mc2r transcriptional activity. Taken together, JDP2 acts as a novel transcriptional activator of the mouse Mc2r gene, suggesting that JDP2 may have physiological functions as a novel player in MC2R-mediated steroidogenesis as well as cell signaling in adrenal glands.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA 31404, USA. meowy200@yahoo.com.
Chiung-Min
CM
Wang
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA 31404, USA. xw98@cornell.edu.
Raymond X
RX
Wang
Department of Genetics and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. runhua@uab.edu.
Runhua
R
Liu
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, GA 31404, USA. yang_w@mercer.edu.
Wei-Hsiung
WH
Yang
D000311:Adrenal Glands; D000818:Animals; D015870:Gene Expression; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011485:Protein Binding; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D058207:Sumoylation; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
C491386:Jundp2 protein, mouse; C560868:MRAP protein, mouse; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins
Jun dimerization protein 2 (JDP2); SUMOylation; melanocortin 2 receptor (MC2R); phosphorylation; transcriptional activity