Profiling of promoter occupancy by PPARalpha in human hepatoma cells via ChIP-chip analysis

David L M van der Meer, Tatjana Degenhardt, Sami Väisänen, Philip J de Groot, Merja Heinäniemi, Sacco C de Vries, Michael Müller, Carsten Carlberg, Sander Kersten

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Abstract

The transcription factor peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha) is an important regulator of hepatic lipid metabolism. While PPARalpha is known to activate transcription of numerous genes, no comprehensive picture of PPARalpha binding to endogenous genes has yet been reported. To fill this gap, we performed Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)-chip in combination with transcriptional profiling on HepG2 human hepatoma cells treated with the PPARalpha agonist GW7647. We found that GW7647 increased PPARalpha binding to 4220 binding regions. GW7647-induced binding regions showed a bias around the transcription start site and most contained a predicted PPAR binding motif. Several genes known to be regulated by PPARalpha, such as ACOX1, SULT2A1, ACADL, CD36, IGFBP1 and G0S2, showed GW7647-induced PPARalpha binding to their promoter. A GW7647-induced PPARalpha-binding region was also assigned to SREBP-targets HMGCS1, HMGCR, FDFT1, SC4MOL, and LPIN1, expression of which was induced by GW7647, suggesting cross-talk between PPARalpha and SREBP signaling. Our data furthermore demonstrate interaction between PPARalpha and STAT transcription factors in PPARalpha-mediated transcriptional repression, and suggest interaction between PPARalpha and TBP, and PPARalpha and C/EBPalpha in PPARalpha-mediated transcriptional activation. Overall, our analysis leads to important new insights into the mechanisms and impact of transcriptional regulation by PPARalpha in human liver and highlight the importance of cross-talk with other transcription factors.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2839-2850
Number of pages12
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume38
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2010

Keywords

  • Binding Sites
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • PPAR alpha
  • Promoter Regions, Genetic
  • Transcription Initiation Site

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