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A Chemical Screening Procedure for Glucocorticoid Signaling with a Zebrafish Larva Luciferase Reporter System
Published on: September 10, 2013
Direct glucocorticoid receptor-Stat5 interaction in hepatocytes controls body size and maturation-related gene
David Engblom1, Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld, Lukas Schwake
1Division of Molecular Biology of the Cell I, German Cancer Research Center, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
The glucocorticoid receptor regulates transcription through DNA binding as well as through cross-talk with other transcription factors. In hepatocytes, the glucocorticoid receptor is critical for normal postnatal growth. Using hepatocyte-specific and domain-selective mutations in the mouse we show that Stat5 in hepatocytes is essential for normal postnatal growth and that it mediates the growth-promoting effect of the glucocorticoid receptor through a direct interaction involving the N-terminal tetramerization domain of Stat5b. This interaction mediates a selective and unexpectedly extensive part of the transcriptional actions of these molecules since it controls the expression of gene sets involved in growth and sexual maturation.
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