Non-canonical dimerization of the androgen receptor and other nuclear receptors: implications for human disease
Por:
Jimenez-Panizo, A, Perez, P, Rojas, AM, Fuentes-Prior, P, Estebanez-Perpina, E
Publicada:
1 ago 2019
Resumen:
Nuclear receptors are transcription factors that play critical roles in development, homeostasis and metabolism in all multicellular organisms. An important family of nuclear receptors comprises those members that respond to steroid hormones, and which is subdivided in turn into estrogen receptor (ER) isoforms a and beta (NR3A1 and A2, respectively), and a second subfamily of so-called oxosteroid receptors. The latter includes the androgen receptor (AR/NR3C4), the glucocorticoid receptor (GR/NR3C1), the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR/ NR3C2) and the progesterone receptor (PR/NR3C3). Here we review recent advances in our understanding of the stru cture-and-function relationship of steroid nuclear receptors and discuss their implications for the etiology of human diseases. We focus in particular on the role played by AR dysregulation in both prostate cancer (PCa) and androgen insensitivity syndromes (AIS), but also discuss conditions linked to mutations of the GR gene as well as those in a non-steroidal receptor, the thyroid hormone receptor (TR). Finally, we explore how these recent results might be exploited for the development of novel and selective therapeutic strategies.
Filiaciones:
Jimenez-Panizo, A:
Univ Barcelona UB, Dept Biochem & Mol Biomed, Inst Biomed IBUB, Barcelona, Spain
Perez, P:
Inst Biomed Valencia IBV CSIC, Valencia, Spain
Rojas, AM:
Andalusian Ctr Dev Biol CABD CSIC, Computat Biol & Bioinformat Grp, Seville, Spain
Fuentes-Prior, P:
Biomed Res Inst St Pau IIB St Pau, Mol Bases Dis, Barcelona, Spain
Estebanez-Perpina, E:
Univ Barcelona UB, Dept Biochem & Mol Biomed, Inst Biomed IBUB, Barcelona, Spain
Green Accepted
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