A signature motif in transcriptional co-activators mediates binding to nuclear receptors

David M. Heery, Eric Kalkhoven, Susan Hoare and Malcolm G. Parker ()
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David M. Heery: Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Eric Kalkhoven: Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Susan Hoare: Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Malcolm G. Parker: Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6634, 733-736

Abstract: Abstract The binding of lipophilic hormones, retinoids and vitamins to members of the nuclear-receptor superfamily modifies the DNA-binding and transcriptional properties of these receptors, resulting in the activation or repression of target genes1,2. Ligand binding induces conformational changes in nuclear receptors and promotes their association with a diverse group of nuclear proteins, including SRC-1/p160 (3-5), TIF-2/GRIP-1 (refs 6, 7) and CBP/p300 (refs 4, 5, 8, 9) which function as co-activators of transcription, and RIP-140 (ref. 10), TIF-1 (ref. 11) and TRIP-1/SUG-1 (refs 12, 13) whose functions are unclear. Here we report that a short sequence motif LXXLL (where L is leucine and X is any amino acid) present in RIP-140, SRC-1 and CBP is necessary and sufficient to mediate the binding of these proteins to liganded nuclear receptors. We show that the ability of SRC-1 to bind the oestrogen receptor and enhance its transcriptional activity is dependent upon the integrity of the LXXLL motifs and on key hydrophobic residues in a conserved helix (helix 12) of the oestrogen receptor that are required for its ligand-induced activation function14. We propose that the LXXLL motif is a signature sequence that facilitates the interaction of different proteins with nuclear receptors, and is thus a defining feature of a new family of nuclear proteins.

Date: 1997
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