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Localisation of the oestradiol‐binding and putative DNA‐binding domains of the human oestrogen receptor.
Author(s) -
Kumar V.,
Green S.,
Staub A.,
Chambon P.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1986.tb04489.x
Subject(s) - biology , oestrogen receptor , dna , dna binding protein , binding site , plasma protein binding , receptor , genetics , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , transcription factor , gene , breast cancer , cancer
Site‐directed mutagenesis was used to prepare a series of human oestrogen receptor (hER) deletion mutants. The ability of these mutant receptors to bind oestradiol, either after being transiently expressed in HeLa cells or produced synthetically in vitro using T7 polymerase coupled with a rabbit reticulocyte lysate translation system, was analysed. The results indicate that a region which is highly conserved (94% amino acid identity) between the human and chicken ERs (region E) contains all of the sequence necessary to bind oestradiol with high affinity. When tight nuclear association of the oestradiol‐receptor complex was investigated using the oestradiol‐binding mutants of the same series, two regions of the hER sequence were found to be important. One of these regions is completely conserved (100% amino acid identity) between the human and chicken ERs (region C). This region is rich in cysteine and basic amino acids and contains motifs similar to those which have been proposed to be important for DNA binding in other eukaryotic transcriptional regulatory proteins. The other region (region D), which is comparatively poorly conserved (38% amino acid identity), is located between the putative DNA‐binding domain (region C) and the oestradiol‐binding domain (region E).