TY - JOUR
T1 - Restored mutant receptor
T2 - Corticoid binding in chaperone complexes by trimethylamine N-oxide
AU - Miller, Aaron L.
AU - Austin Elam, W.
AU - Johnson, Betty H.
AU - Khan, Shagufta H.
AU - Kumar, Raj
AU - Brad Thompson, E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - Without a glucocorticoid (GC) ligand, the transcription factor glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is largely cytoplasmic, with its GC-binding domain held in high affinity conformation by a cluster of chaperones. Binding a GC causes serial dis-and re-associations with chaperones, translocation of the GR to the nucleus, where it binds to DNA sites and associates with coregulatory proteins and basic transcription complexes. Herein, we describe the effects of a potent protective osmolyte, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), on a conditions-dependent "activation-labile" mutant GR (GRact/l), which under GR-activating conditions cannot bind GCs in cells or in cell cytosols. In both cells and cytosols, TMAO restores binding to GRact/l by stabilizing it in complex with chaperones. Cells bathed in much lower concentrations of TMAO than those required in vitro show restoration of GC binding, presumably due to intracellular molecular crowding effects.
AB - Without a glucocorticoid (GC) ligand, the transcription factor glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is largely cytoplasmic, with its GC-binding domain held in high affinity conformation by a cluster of chaperones. Binding a GC causes serial dis-and re-associations with chaperones, translocation of the GR to the nucleus, where it binds to DNA sites and associates with coregulatory proteins and basic transcription complexes. Herein, we describe the effects of a potent protective osmolyte, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), on a conditions-dependent "activation-labile" mutant GR (GRact/l), which under GR-activating conditions cannot bind GCs in cells or in cell cytosols. In both cells and cytosols, TMAO restores binding to GRact/l by stabilizing it in complex with chaperones. Cells bathed in much lower concentrations of TMAO than those required in vitro show restoration of GC binding, presumably due to intracellular molecular crowding effects.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0174183
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0174183
M3 - Article
C2 - 28301576
AN - SCOPUS:85015711254
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 12
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 3
M1 - e0174183
ER -