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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 278, 期 18, 页码 16030-16038出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M206953200
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 41842, DK 09516] Funding Source: Medline
Nuclear receptors are ligand-inducible transcription factors that share structurally related DNA-binding (DBD) and ligand-binding (LBD) domains. Biochemical and structural studies have revealed the modular nature of DBD and LBD. Nevertheless, the domains function in concert in vivo. While high-resolution crystal structures of nuclear receptor DBDs and LBDs are available, there are no x-ray structural studies of nuclear receptor proteins containing multiple domains. We report the solution structures of the human retinoid X receptor DBD-LBD (hRXRalphaDeltaAB) region. We obtained ab initio shapes of hRXRalphaDeltaAB dimer and tetramer to 3.3 and 1.7 nm resolutions, respectively, and established the position and orientation of the DBD and LBD by fitting atomic coordinates of hRXRalpha DBD and LBD. The dimer is U-shaped with DBDs spaced at similar to2 nm in a head to head orientation forming an angle of about 10degrees with respect to each other and with an extensive interface area provided by the LBD. The tetramer is a more elongated X-shaped molecule formed by two dimers in head to head arrangement in which the DBDs are extended from the structure and spaced at about 6 nm. The close proximity of DBDs in dimers may facilitate homodimer formation on DNA, however, for the homodimer to bind to a DNA element containing two directly repeated half-sites, one of the DBDs would need to rotate with respect to the other element. By contrast, the separation of DBDs in the tetramers may account for their decreased ability to recognize DNA.
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