Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2001, p. 343-353, Vol. 21, No. 1
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/MCB.21.1.343-353.2001
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Molecular Oncology Group, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec H3A 1A1,1 Departments of Biochemistry2 and Medicine and Oncology,4 McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6, and Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Laval University Medical Research Center and Laval University, Québec, Québec G1V 4G2,3 Canada
Received 26 May 2000/Returned for modification 10 July 2000/Accepted 9 October 2000
Coregulators for nuclear receptors (NR) are factors that either
enhance or repress their transcriptional activity. Both coactivators and corepressors have been shown to use similar but functionally distinct NR interacting determinants containing the core
motifs LxxLL and
xx
, respectively. These interactions occur
through a hydrophobic cleft located on the surface of the
ligand-binding domain (LBD) of the NR and are regulated by
ligand-dependent activation function 2 (AF-2). In an effort to identify
novel coregulators that function independently of AF-2, we used the LBD
of the orphan receptor RVR (which lacks AF-2) as bait in a yeast
two-hybrid screen. This strategy led to the cloning of a nuclear
protein referred to as CIA (coactivator independent of AF-2 function) that possesses both repressor and activator functions. Strikingly, we
observed that CIA not only interacts with RVR and Rev-ErbA
in a
ligand-independent manner but can also form complexes with estrogen
receptor alpha (ER
) and ER
in vitro and enhances ER
transcriptional activity in the presence of estradiol (E2).
CIA-ER
interactions were found to be independent of AF-2 and
enhanced by the antiestrogens EM-652 and ICI 182,780 but not by
4-hydroxytamoxifen and raloxifene. We further demonstrate that
CIA-ER
interactions require the presence within CIA of a novel
bifunctional NR recognition determinant containing overlapping LxxLL
and
xx
motifs. The identification and functional
characterization of CIA suggest that hormone binding can create a
functional coactivator interaction interface in the absence of AF-2.
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