Expression of CETP regulated by NR1H2 or NR1H3

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R-HSA-9035169
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Reaction [omitted]
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Homo sapiens
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The CETP gene is transcribed to yield mRNA and the mRNA is translated to yield protein. CETP expression can be transcriptionally activated by liver X receptors (LXRα (NR1H3) and LXRβ (NR1H2)) that belong to the nuclear receptor superfamily of ligand-activated transcription factors. Activation of NR1H2,3 induced expression via an LXR response element (LXRE) consisting of 2 hexanucleotide sequences separated by 4 intervening bases (an LXRE of the DR4 type) in the CETP promoter (Luo Y & Tall AR 2000), which may be more responsive to LXRα rather than LXRβ (Honzumi S et al. 2010). Treatment with T0901317, a synthetic agonist of NR1H2,3, increased CETP mRNA levels in human liver carcinoma HepG2 cells by approximately 220%, while NR1H3 silencing markedly diminished the increased expression of CETP (Shimada A et al. 2016). It should be noted that CETP is not expressed in the mouse or rat (it is a pseudogene in these species, Hogarth CA et al. 2003) so studies of LXR-mediated regulation of CETP have been performed in human, hamster, and non-human primates (Groot PHE, et al. 2005).
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PubMed ID Title Journal Year
20494359 LXRalpha regulates human CETP expression in vitro and in transgenic mice

Hiroshima, A, Ubukata, N, Terasaka, N, Shima, A, Koieyama, T, Honzumi, S

Atherosclerosis 2010
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