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Function
ESR1_HUMAN Nuclear hormone receptor. The steroid hormones and their receptors are involved in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression and affect cellular proliferation and differentiation in target tissues. Ligand-dependent nuclear transactivation involves either direct homodimer binding to a palindromic estrogen response element (ERE) sequence or association with other DNA-binding transcription factors, such as AP-1/c-Jun, c-Fos, ATF-2, Sp1 and Sp3, to mediate ERE-independent signaling. Ligand binding induces a conformational change allowing subsequent or combinatorial association with multiprotein coactivator complexes through LXXLL motifs of their respective components. Mutual transrepression occurs between the estrogen receptor (ER) and NF-kappa-B in a cell-type specific manner. Decreases NF-kappa-B DNA-binding activity and inhibits NF-kappa-B-mediated transcription from the IL6 promoter and displace RELA/p65 and associated coregulators from the promoter. Recruited to the NF-kappa-B response element of the CCL2 and IL8 promoters and can displace CREBBP. Present with NF-kappa-B components RELA/p65 and NFKB1/p50 on ERE sequences. Can also act synergistically with NF-kappa-B to activate transcription involving respective recruitment adjacent response elements; the function involves CREBBP. Can activate the transcriptional activity of TFF1. Also mediates membrane-initiated estrogen signaling involving various kinase cascades. Isoform 3 is involved in activation of NOS3 and endothelial nitric oxide production. Isoforms lacking one or several functional domains are thought to modulate transcriptional activity by competitive ligand or DNA binding and/or heterodimerization with the full length receptor. Isoform 3 can bind to ERE and inhibit isoform 1.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Protein stability limitations often hamper the exploration of proteins as drug targets. Here, we show that the application of PROSS server algorithms to the ligand-binding domain of human estrogen receptor alpha (hERalpha) enabled the development of variant ERPRS* that comprises 24 amino acid substitutions and exhibits multiple improved characteristics. The protein displays enhanced production rates in E. coli, crystallizes readily and its thermal stability is increased significantly by 23 degrees C. hERalpha is a nuclear receptor (NR) family member. In NRs, protein function is allosterically regulated by its interplay with small molecule effectors and the interaction with coregulatory proteins. The in-depth characterization of ERPRS* shows that these cooperative effects are fully preserved despite that 10% of all residues were substituted. Crystal structures reveal several salient features, i.e. the introduction of a tyrosine corner in a helix-loop-helix segment and the formation of a novel surface salt bridge network possibly explaining the enhanced thermal stability. ERPRS* shows that prior successes in computational approaches for stabilizing proteins can be extended to proteins with complex allosteric regulatory behaviors as present in NRs. Since NRs including hERalpha are implicated in multiple diseases, our ERPRS* variant shows significant promise for facilitating the development of novel hERalpha modulators.
A PROSS-designed extensively mutated estrogen receptor alpha variant displays enhanced thermal stability while retaining native allosteric regulation and structure.,Kriegel M, Wiederanders HJ, Alkhashrom S, Eichler J, Muller YA Sci Rep. 2021 May 18;11(1):10509. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89785-1. PMID:34006920[19]
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