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Mapping the Structure-Function Relationships of Disordered Oncogenic Transcription Factors Using Transcriptomic Analysis
Published on: June 27, 2020
Cross-talk between ERs and signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 is E2 dependent and involves two
M H Faulds1, K Pettersson, J A Gustafsson
1Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, NOVUM, S-14186 Huddinge, Sweden.
Abstract:
Steroid hormone receptors and signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) factors constitute two distinct families of transcription factors activated by different signaling pathways. In previous reports, cross-talk between STAT5 and several steroid receptors has been demonstrated. We investigated putative cross-talk between ERalpha and ERbeta and STAT5. ERalpha and ERbeta were found to potently repress PRL-induced STAT5 transcriptional activity on a beta-casein promoter construct in a ligand-dependent manner. This down-regulation was found to rely on direct physical interaction between the ERs and STAT5, mediated via the ER DNA-binding domain (DBD). The contact between the ER DBD and STAT5 is highly specific; the interaction is abolished if the ERalpha DBD is replaced with the DBD of a closely related steroid receptor. The physical interaction, however, is insufficient to confer the repression of STAT5 activity, which in addition requires the ligand-activated C-terminal part of the ERs, although these domains are not in direct contact with STAT5. Negative cross-talk between ERs and STAT5 is thus mediated via several functionally separated domains of the ERs. Our findings may enhance the understanding of mechanisms of regulation of the different hormonal signaling pathways occurring during different functional events in tissues coexpressing ERs and STAT5.
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