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. 1995 May 9;92(10):4367–4371. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.10.4367

Estrogen regulates the expression of several different estrogen receptor mRNA isoforms in rat pituitary.

K E Friend 1, L W Ang 1, M A Shupnik 1
PMCID: PMC41945  PMID: 7753813

Abstract

A 5.2-kb mRNA band that contains estrogen receptor (ER) sequence and exhibits sex- and tissue-specific expression has been identified in rat pituitary via Northern analysis; this band is composed of at least two distinctive ER mRNA isoforms. This mRNA is expressed in high levels in female pituitary but is absent in male pituitary and uterus, whereas the mRNA encoding the full-length receptor (6.2 kb) is expressed in all the aforementioned tissues. Estradiol treatment potently induces the expression of the 5.2-kb band in the male pituitary. Oligonucleotide hybridization and ribonuclease-protection experiments indicate that the pituitary ER variant is missing exons 1-4. Two corresponding cDNA clones, truncated estrogen receptor product 1 and 2 (TERP-1 and TERP-2), were isolated by using the anchored PCR. Both sequences contain a 31-bp segment of specific sequence upstream of exon 5; TERP-2, however, contains an additional 66 bp of specific sequence between the 31-bp segment and exon 5. On Northern analysis, probes complementary to the 31-bp segment of specific sequence hybridize only to the 5.2-kb band. Immunoblotting identified several proteins in rat pituitary that could represent the translation products of these or related transcripts. In summary, several ER isoforms have been identified that exhibit both tissue-specific expression and marked estrogen regulation and differ from full-length receptor by virtue of sequence upstream of the exon 4/5 boundary. Physiologically, the putative proteins encoded by these or similar isoforms might be important modulators of the tissue- and promoter-specific effects of estradiol.

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