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DRUG METABOLISM AND PHARMACOKINETICS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 2-7Publisher
JAPANESE SOC STUDY XENOBIOTICS
DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.23.2
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alpha-amino-beta-carboxymuconate-epsilon-semialdehyde-decarboxylase, ACMSD; direct repeat element DR; CAR constitutive androstane receptor; forkhead box O1 alpha, FOXO1; glucocorticoid receptor GR; hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha, HNF4 alpha; maturity onset diabetes of the young 1, MODY-1; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase PEPCK; glucose-6-phosphatase, G-6-pase; pregnane X receptor PXR; peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor alpha, PPAR alpha
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- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [ZIABC005708, Z01BC005708] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4 alpha, NR2A1) is required for development of the liver and for controlling the expression of many genes specifically expressed in the liver and associated with a number of critical metabolic pathways. Among the genes regulated by HNF4 alpha are the xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochromes P450, UDP-glucuronosyltransferases and sulfotransferases thus making this transcription factor critical in the control of drug metabolism. HNF4 alpha, a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, binds as a homodimer to direct repeat elements upstream of target genes. However, in contrast to many other nuclear receptors, there is no convincing evidence that HNF4 alpha is activated by exogenous ligands, at least in the classic mechanism used by other steroid and metabolic nuclear receptors. X-ray crystallographic studies revealed that HNF4 alpha has a fatty acid embedded in its putative ligand binding site that may not be easily released or displaced by exogenous ligands. HNF4 alpha, as a general rule, controls constitutive expression of many hepatic genes but under certain circumstances can be subjected to regulation by differential co-activator recruitment, by phosphorylation and by interaction with other nuclear receptors. The ability of HNF4 alpha to be regulated offers hope that it could be a drug target.
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