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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 1285-1298Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01190-09
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- Agencia de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica de Argentina [PICT-2006-02109, PICT-2004-26495]
- Universidad de Buenos Aires [UBACyT-X085]
- NIH [R03TW007162-01A2, R03TW008143-01A1]
- FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER [R03TW008143, R03TW007162] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL027255] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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In this study, we demonstrate that the subcellular localization of the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) is regulated by tetratricopeptide domain (TPR) proteins. The high-molecular-weight immunophilin (IMM) FKBP52 links the MR-hsp90 complex to dynein/dynactin motors favoring the cytoplasmic transport of MR to the nucleus. Replacement of this hsp90-binding IMM by FKBP51 or the TPR peptide favored the cytoplasmic localization of MR. The complete movement machinery, including dynein and tubulin, could be recovered from paclitaxel/GTP-stabilized cytosol and was fully reassembled on stripped MR immune pellets. The whole MR-hsp90-based heterocomplex was transiently recovered in the soluble fraction of the nucleus after 10 min of incubation with aldosterone. Moreover, cross-linked MR-hsp90 heterocomplexes accumulated in the nucleus in a hormone-dependent manner, demonstrating that the heterocomplex can pass undissociated through the nuclear pore. On the other hand, a peptide that comprises the DNA-binding domain of MR impaired the nuclear export of MR, suggesting the involvement of this domain in the process. This study represents the first report describing the entire molecular system that commands MR nucleocytoplasmic trafficking and proposes that the MR-hsp90-TPR protein heterocomplex is dissociated in the nucleus rather than in the cytoplasm.
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