Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 1697-1707Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(02)00912-7
Keywords
ROR; atherosclerosis; cholesterol; nuclear receptor; coactivator; transcription factor
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The retinoic acid-related orphan receptor alpha (RORalpha) is an orphan member of the subfamily 1 of nuclear hormone receptors. No X-ray structure of RORalpha has been described so far, and no ligand has been identified-We describe the first crystal structure of the ligand binding domain (LBD) of RORalpha, at 1.63 Angstrom resolution. This structure revealed a ligand present in the ligand binding pocket (LBP), which was identified by X-ray crystallography as cholest-5-en-3beta-of (cholesterol). Moreover, RORalpha transcriptional activity could be modulated by changes in intracellular cholesterol level or mutation of residues involved in cholesterol binding. These findings suggest that RORalpha could play a key role in the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and thus represents an important drug target in cholesterol-related diseases.
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