Abstract
Androgens and androgen receptor (AR) play important roles in sexual differentiation and prostatic cancer cell proliferation. To investigate the regulation of AR expression, a 2-kilobase pair 5'-flanking region of human AR gene including a 0.6-kilobase pair 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) was ligated to a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene and characterized by CAT assay after transfection into HeLa cells. The results revealed that AR 5'-UTR was absolutely needed for the induction of CAT activity, but could not function as an enhancer for the AR transcription. A further study using a 180 base pairs (+21 to +202 including a stem-loop secondary structure at +109 to +129) within the AR 5'-UTR demonstrated that this region was sufficient to induce more CAT activity without changing the CAT mRNA expression. Taken together, these results strongly suggested that 5'-UTR of AR mRNA plays an essential role in the induction of AR translation, which may represent the first reported translational induction mechanism in the steroid receptor superfamily.
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