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Reverse Yeast Two-hybrid System to Identify Mammalian Nuclear Receptor Residues that Interact with Ligands and/or Antagonists
Published on: November 15, 2013
Direct interactions between corepressors and coactivators permit the integration of nuclear receptor-mediated
Xiaolin Li1, Erin A Kimbrel, Daniel J Kenan
1Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Abstract:
The unliganded thyroid hormone receptor beta (TRbeta) represses the basal transcriptional activity of target genes, in part through interactions with the nuclear receptor corepressor (N-CoR). In this study we have identified a rather unexpected interaction between N-CoR and the nuclear receptor coactivator ACTR. We have demonstrated in vitro and in intact cells that N-CoR directly associates with ACTR and that the interaction surfaces on N-CoR and ACTR are distinct from those required for TR binding. The significance of this finding was demonstrated by showing that N-CoR facilitates an interaction between unliganded-TRbeta and ACTR. One possible consequence of the formation of the trimeric complex of N-CoR/ACTR/unliganded-TR is that N-CoR may raise the local concentration of ACTR at target gene promoters. In support of this hypothesis it was demonstrated that the presence of N-CoR can enhance TRbeta-mediated transcriptional activation. It is proposed, therefore, that TRbeta- mediated activation and repression are integrally linked in a manner that is not predicted by the current models of nuclear receptor action.
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