Role of the ligand in intracellular receptor function: receptor affinity determines activation in vitro of the latent dioxin receptor to a DNA-binding form.

AUTOR(ES)

Cuthill, S

RESUMO

To reconstitute the molecular mechanisms underlying the cellular response to soluble receptor ligands, we have exploited a cell-free system that exhibits signal- (dioxin-)induced activation of the latent cytosolic dioxin receptor to an active DNA-binding species. The DNA-binding properties of the in vitro-activated form were qualitatively indistinguishable from those of in vivo-activated nuclear receptor extracted from dioxin-treated cells. In vitro activation of the receptor by dioxin was dose dependent and was mimicked by other dioxin receptor ligands in a manner that followed the rank order of their relative affinities for the receptor in vitro and their relative potencies to induce target gene transcription in vivo. Thus, in addition to triggering the initial release of inhibition of DNA binding and presumably allowing nuclear translocation, the ligand appears to play a crucial role in the direct control of the level of functional activity of a given ligand-receptor complex.

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