Journal
JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 2-5, Pages 139-145Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0760(03)00222-X
Keywords
nuclear receptor; coactivator; signal transduction; protein methylation; CARM 1; p160 coactivator
Funding
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 55274, DK 43093] Funding Source: Medline
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Hormone-activated nuclear receptors (NR) bind to the promoters of their target genes and recruit coactivator proteins to help activate transcription. The p160 coactivators bind directly to activated NRs and recruit secondary coactivators CBP/p300 with protein acetyltransferase activity and CARM1 with protein methyltransferase activity. To further investigate the components of the p160 coactivator complex and their mechanisms of action, we have used two guiding assumptions. First, the coactivators constitute a signal transduction pathway that convey the signal from DNA-bound NRs to the transcription machinery. Second, each coactivator has signal input and signal output domains that facilitate signal transduction. These assumptions were used to address the mechanism by which CARM1 and the N-terminal region of p 160 coactivators transmit activating signals to the transcription machinery. The p I 60-binding activity of CARM1 is in the same centrally located structural domain as the methyltransferase activity; the p 1 60-binding domain anchors CARM1 to the target gene promoter and thereby serves as its signal input domain. CARM1 has two signal output mechanisms: the protein methyltransferase activity, which methylates histones and other proteins in the transcription initiation complex; and a strong autonomous activation function in the C-terminal region. We identified a protein, CCCP, which binds to the C-terminal region of CARM1 and cooperates synergistically with CARM1 to enhance NR function. We also defined the N-terminal region of p160 coactivators as another signal output domain, which binds a novel coactivator called coiled-coil coactivator (CoCoA). CoCoA acts synergistically with p160 coactivators to enhance NR function. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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