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A role of the nuclear receptor Rev-erbalpha in the regulation of transcription pathways involving other nuclear receptors is emerging. Indeed, Rev-erbalpha is a negative regulator of transcription by binding to overlapping response elements shared with various nuclear receptors, including the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors and the retinoid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORalpha). Here, we show that Rev-erbalpha is expressed in primary human macrophages and that its expression is induced by synthetic ligands for the liver X receptors (LXRs), which control cholesterol homeostasis, inflammation, and the immune response in macrophages. LXRalpha binds to a specific response element in the human Rev-erbalpha promoter, thus inducing Rev-erbalpha transcriptional expression. Interestingly, Rev-erbalpha does not influence basal or LXR-regulated cholesterol homeostasis. However, Rev-erbalpha overexpression represses the induction of toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 by LXR agonists, whereas Rev-erbalpha silencing by short interfering RNA results in enhanced TLR-4 expression upon LXR activation. Electrophoretic mobility shift, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and transient transfection experiments demonstrate that Rev-erbalpha represses human TLR-4 promoter activity by binding as a monomer to a RevRE site overlapping with the LXR response element site in the TLR-4 promoter. These data identify Rev-erbalpha as a new LXR target gene, inhibiting LXR-induction of TLR-4 in a negative transcriptional feedback loop, but not cholesterol homeostasis gene expression.

molecular endocrinology

The Nuclear Receptor Rev-erbα Is a Liver X Receptor (LXR) Target Gene Driving a Negative Feedback Loop on Select LXR-Induced Pathways in Human Macrophages