The nature of the GRE influences the screening for GR-activity enhancing modulators.

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One possible solution to try and overcome GCR, is to identify molecules that prevent or revert GCR by hyper-stimulating the biological activity of the GR. To this purpose, we screened for compounds that potentiate the dexamethasone (Dex)-induced transcriptional activity of GR. To monitor GR transcriptional activity, the screen was performed using the lung epithelial cell line A549 in which a glucocorticoid responsive element (GRE) coupled to a luciferase reporter gene construct was stably integrated. Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) such as Vorinostat and Belinostat are two broad-spectrum HDACi that strongly increased the Dex-induced luciferase expression in our screening system. In sharp contrast herewith, results from a genome-wide transcriptome analysis of Dex-induced transcripts using RNAseq, revealed that Belinostat impairs the ability of GR to transactivate target genes. The stimulatory effect of Belinostat in the luciferase screen further depends on the nature of the reporter construct. In conclusion, a profound discrepancy was observed between HDACi effects on two different synthetic promoter-luciferase reporter systems. The favorable effect of HDACi on gene expression should be evaluated with care, when considering them as potential therapeutic agents. GEO accession number GSE96649.", "claims": [{"id": "claim-method", "statement": "Two-way ANOVA was performed to test whether there was a difference between differential treatments. Subsequently, pairwise multiple comparisons based on the Tukey’s procedure was followed for post hoc analysis to identify the differential compound/treatment.", "kind": "methodological", "target": null, "evidence": [{"asset": "source:pmid:28686666", "locator": "sections[8] \"Statistical analysis\" paragraph 2", "quote": "Two-way ANOVA was performed to test whether there was a difference between differential treatments. 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