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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
35
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-1-12
pubmed:abstractText
The glucocorticoid receptor binds with high specificity to glucocorticoid response elements, discriminating them from other closely related binding sites. Three amino acids in the recognition alpha-helix of the DNA-binding domain of the receptor are primarily responsible for this specific DNA binding activity. In this study we analyze in detail how these residues determine the specific DNA binding by studying a series of mutant glucocorticoid receptor DNA-binding domains containing all combinations of glucocorticoid and estrogen receptor-specific residues at these positions. Statistical analysis of the results enables us to create models describing the association between amino acids and base pairs. Several strategies appear to be used in accomplishing discrimination between the glucocorticoid and estrogen response elements. Single residues (i.e., Val-443 in the glucocorticoid receptor and Glu-439 in the estrogen receptor) appear to form both positive contacts with specific base pairs in the cognate binding site and negative contacts in the non-cognate site. In the glucocorticoid receptor Ser-440 is pleiotropically negative for all sites tested but the negative effect is stronger for the estrogen response element thus contributing to binding site discrimination. Furthermore, combinations of amino acids appear to act synergistically, most often causing a reduction in binding to non-cognate sites.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
267
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
24941-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Base Composition, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Models, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Nucleic Acid Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Receptors, Glucocorticoid, pubmed-meshheading:1459998-Recombinant Proteins
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Determinants for DNA-binding site recognition by the glucocorticoid receptor.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Biotechnology, Karolinska Institute, NOVUM, Huddinge, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't