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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 36, Pages 31839-31851Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.270397
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- National Institutes of Health [R56DK065954-05]
- King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer, Amman, Jordan
- J. Bolyai Fellowship
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During pregnancy, uterine smooth muscle (USM) coordinately adapts its contractile phenotype in order to accommodate the developing fetus and then prepare for delivery. Herein we show that SMTNL1 plays a major role in pregnancy to promote adaptive responses in USM and that this process is specifically mediated through interactions of SMTNL1 with the steroid hormone receptor PR-B. In vitro and in vivo SMTNL1 selectively binds PR and not other steroid hormone receptors. The physiological relationship between the two proteins was also established in global gene expression and transcriptional reporter studies in pregnant smtnl1(-/-) mice and by RNA interference in progesterone-sensitive cell lines. We show that the contraction-associated and progestin-sensitive genes (oxytocin receptor, connexin 43, and cyclooxygenase-2) and prolactins are down-regulated in pregnant smtnl1(-/-) mice. We suggest that SMTNL1 is a bifunctional co-regulator of PR-B signaling and thus provides a molecular mechanism whereby PR-B is targeted to alter gene expression patterns within USM cells to coordinately promote alterations in USM function during pregnancy.
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