通过核受体激活依赖质的转录,需要DRIP复合体
C Rachez1, B D Lemon, Z Suldan
1Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Nature
|May 11, 1999
概括
研究人员确定了13种蛋白质,称为DRIPs,它们形成了维生素D受体 (VDR) 基因转录所必需的复合体. 这种DRIP复合体对于荷尔蒙依赖基因激活至关重要,突出了不同转录激活剂之间共享的辅因子.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 遗传学 是一个遗传学.
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
背景情况:
- 核受体调节基因转录以响应脂友性配体.
- 连接物结合会诱导形状变化,使受体-辅助因子相互作用能够进行交换.
- 一个先前确定的DRIP复合体与维生素D受体 (VDR) 相互作用.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定DRIP辅因子复合物的组成部分.
- 阐明DRIP复合体在荷尔蒙依赖性交换激活中的功能.
- 调查DRIP与其他辅助因子复合体之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 蛋白质的识别和表征.
- 使用无细胞系统进行体外转录试验.
- 基于染色体的转录试验.
主要成果:
- 确定了13个DRIP,构成了一个新的辅助因子综合体.
- DRIP复合体在VDR介导的染色体上荷尔蒙依赖的交换活化中发挥着中心作用.
- DRIP/ARC子单位与其他辅助因子复合体 (CRSP,NAT,SMCC,Mediator) 共享.
结论:
- DRIP复合体对于VDR介导的基因转录至关重要.
- 核受体配体可能通过招募像DRIPs这样的辅因子复合体来起作用.
- 不同的转录激活剂可能利用共享的辅因子复合体,表明保存的调节机制.
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