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Molecular and Cellular Biology, December 2007, p. 8073-8086, Vol. 27, No. 23
0270-7306/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.00451-07
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Tissue- and Nuclear Receptor-Specific Function of the C-Terminal LXXLL Motif of Coactivator NCoA6/AIB3 in Mice

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Dan Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Received 15 March 2007/ Returned for modification 11 May 2007/ Accepted 17 September 2007

Although the LXXLL motif of nuclear receptor (NR) coactivators is essential for interaction with NRs, its role has not been assessed in unbiased animal models. The nuclear receptor coactivator 6 (NCoA6; also AIB3, PRIP, ASC-2, TRBP, RAP250, or NRC) is a coactivator containing an N-terminal LXXLL-1 (L1) and a C-terminal L2. L1 interacts with many NRs, while L2 interacts with the liver X receptor (LXR) and the estrogen receptor (ER). We generated mice in which L2 was mutated into AXXAL (L2m) to disrupt its interaction with LXR and ER. NCoA6^L2m/L2m mice exhibited normal reproduction, mammary gland morphogenesis, and ER target gene expression. In contrast, when treated with an LXR agonist, lipogenesis and the LXR target gene expression were significantly reduced in NCoA6^L2m/L2m mice. The induction of Cyp7A1 expression by a high-cholesterol diet was impaired in NCoA6^L2m/L2m mice, which reduced bile acid synthesis in the liver and excretion in the feces and resulted in cholesterol accumulation in the liver and blood. These results demonstrate that L2 plays a tissue- and NR-specific role: it is required for NCoA6 to mediate LXR-regulated lipogenesis and cholesterol/bile acid homeostasis in the liver but not required for ER function in the mammary gland.

Published ahead of print on 1 October 2007.

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