Liver Receptor Homolog-1 and Steroidogenic Factor-1 Have Similar Actions on Rat Granulosa Cell Steroidogenesis

Author:

Saxena Deeksha,Escamilla-Hernandez Rosalba,Little-Ihrig Lynda,Zeleznik Anthony J.

Abstract

Granulosa cells express the closely related orphan nuclear receptors steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and liver receptor homolog-1 (LRH-1). To determine whether SF-1 and LRH-1 have differential effects on steroid production, we compared the effects of overexpressing LRH-1 and SF-1 on estrogen and progesterone production by undifferentiated rat granulosa cells. Adenovirus mediated overexpression of LRH-1 or SF-1 had qualitatively similar effects. Neither LRH-1 nor SF-1 alone stimulated estrogen or progesterone production, but when combined with FSH and testosterone, each significantly augmented progesterone production and mRNAs for cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme and 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase above that observed with FSH alone, with SF-1 being more effective than LRH-1. LRH-1 did not augment FSH-stimulated estrogen production, whereas SF-1 produced only a slight (∼30%) augmentation of FSH-stimulated estrogen production. The stimulatory actions of both were reduced by overexpression of dosage-sensitive sex reversal, adrenal hypoplasia congenita, critical region on the X chromosome, gene 1. Expression of either LRH-1 or SF-1 together with constitutively active protein kinase B in the absence of FSH stimulated progesterone production and mRNAs for 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme but did not stimulate estrogen production or mRNA for aromatase. These findings demonstrate that LRH-1 and SF-1 have qualitatively similar actions on FSH-stimulated estrogen and progesterone production, which would suggest that these factors may have overlapping actions in the regulation of steroidogenesis that accompanies granulosa cell differentiation.

Publisher

The Endocrine Society

Subject

Endocrinology

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