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What are the 7 domains of a nuclear hormone receptor?

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  1. Hormone binding
  2. DNA binding
  3. Nuclear localization
  4. Dimerization/Modulation/Phosphorylation domains
  5. Transducing domain
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What are the 6 domains of a membrane hormone receptor? Which ones are in the cell and which ones are out?

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  1. Hormone binding (out)
  2. Transmembrane (within)
  3. Dimerization (out)
  4. Modulation (in)
  5. Phosphorylation (in)
  6. Transducing domain (in)
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What are the 4 ways for a membrane hormone receptor to trigger a second messenger system?

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  1. Dimerization
  2. Modulation
  3. Phosphorylation domains
  4. Enzymatic activity
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What method is used by membrane receptors to induce a conformational change leading to transduction of response/second messenger cascade?

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Dimerization

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Which is inside the cell: N or C terminus of membrane hormone receptor?

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Depends!

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Where is the hormone-binding domain of nuclear hormone receptors? What is particular about it?

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At the C-terminal

LARGE: ~250 AAs

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What is the function of the nuclear localization domain of the nuclear hormone receptor?

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Allows receptor to localize the nucleus of the cell

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When does the nuclear hormone receptor enter the nucleus?

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Could have always been there or upon binding to the hormone in the cytosol

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What is the transducing domain of the nuclear hormone receptor?

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Could be considered the entire hormone receptor

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What is an agonist?

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Molecule that binds to the hormone receptor and brings about a response

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What is an antagonist?

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Molecule that binds to the hormone receptor and inhibits the agonist responses

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What is the role of the transducing domain of the membrane hormone receptor? What part of the receptor is it?

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To induce second messengers

Cytoplasmic side of the receptor

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What is the role of the transducing domain of the nuclear hormone receptor?

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Activate transcription

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Which bind better: agonists or antigonists?

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Agonists usually

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How can one determine if the binding domain of a hormone receptor binds the hormone reversibly?

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Binding assay: scatchard plots

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Which type of receptors can be glycosylated?

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Membrane receptors

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Which type of membrane receptors can have enzymatic activity??

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Membrane receptors

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What is an example of a partial/weak antagonist?

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Ru486: works to inhibit progesterone receptor but partially inhibits the glucocorticoid receptor

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What can an antagonist’s properties depend on? Example?

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The tissue it is in!

Eg: tamoxifen inhibits estradiol receptors well in breasts and poorly in bone

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What does hGR stand for?

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Glucocorticoid receptor

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What does hMR stand for?

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Mineralcorticoid receptor

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What does hAR stand for?

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Androgen receptor

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What does hPR stand for?

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Progesterone receptor

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What does hERalpha and B stand for?

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Alpha and beta estrogen receptors

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What does hTR stand for?
Thyroid receptor
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What are the 2 main types of hTRs?
Alpha 1 and beta 1
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What does hRAR stand for?
Retinoic acid receptor
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What are the 3 types of hRARs?
Alpha, beta, gamma
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What does hRXR stand for?
Retinoic acid X receptor
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What are the 3 types of hRXRs?
Alpha, beta, gamma
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What does hPPAR stand for?
Perioxosime proliferator
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What do hPPARs regulate?
Lipid metabolism
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What are the 3 types of hPPARs?
Alpha, beta, gamma
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What does hVDR stand for?
Vitamin D receptor
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What are the 3 groupings of nuclear receptors? What do they each share?
1. Steroid receptors: hGR, hMR, hAR, hPR 2. Estrogen receptors: hER alpha and beta 3. Others: hTR (alpha 1 and beta 1), hRAR alpha, hRXR alpha, hPPAR alpha, hVDR They share P-box sequences
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What % range AA homology between the hormone binding domains of nuclear receptors? But...?
15-50% | But conserved structure between all of them.
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Describe the common structure of hormone binding domains of nuclear receptors? How come they all have it?
11-12 alpha helices arranged like a 3 layer sandwich with a hydrophobic hole/pocket Helix 12 is the last helix at the C-terminus with 2 surfaces and is separate from the sandwich: hydrophobic (toward hormone) and hydrophilic --> the hydrophilic one interacts with coactivator proteins to regulate transcription Evolution!
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Describe the mechanism by which nuclear receptors bind hormones.
1. Hormone binds and causes all of the helices to crunch together: huge conformational change = induced fit 2. Helix 12 seals the binding cavity and exposes its hydrophilic surface to regulate transcription
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What is the N terminal of nuclear hormone receptors often involved with?
Transcriptional activation and nuclear localization
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Describe the structure of the DNA binding domain of nuclear hormone receptors. Where is it located?
2 zinc fingers + 2 alpha helices in a globular structure | Located in the center of the molecule
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What part of the DNA binding domain of nuclear hormone receptors interacts with the DNA? 3 names
The first zinc finger = P-box = recognition helix
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How would changing the P-box sequence affect binding of nuclear hormone receptor to DNA?
Would change the binding specificity
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Can the hormones activating the nuclear receptors that have the same P-box activate all of them?
NOPE, more complicated than that BUT they could bind to the same DNA binding site
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How do ALL hormones bind to nuclear receptors?
As DIMERS to DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA
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What DNA sequence do steroid receptors bind?
Palindrome sequence separated by any 3 nucleotides
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What DNA sequence do estrogen receptors bind?
Palindrome sequence separated by any 3 nucleotides
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What 2 DNA sequences do thyroid receptors bind?
1. Palindrome sequence not separated by nucleotides | 2. Direct repeats separated by any 4 nucleotides
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What DNA sequence do VDRs bind?
Direct repeat separated by any 3 nucleotides
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What DNA sequence do RARs bind?
Direct repeat separated by any 5 nucleotides
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Which DNA sequences bind nuclear hormone receptors more tightly and with high affitiny: direct repeats or palindromes?
Palindromes
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How is steroid receptor binding to DNA regulated?
Heat Shock Proteins are bound to the hormone binding domain of the receptor and are released upon hormone binding
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What is the main Heat Shock Protein used to regulate steroid receptor binding to DNA?
HSP90
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What is the receptor binding site sequence of the transcriptional coactivators?
LLxxLL L: leucine x: any AA
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Do TRs need hormones to bind DNA?
Not necessarily
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How is thyroid receptor activation of DNA transcription regulated?
Suppressor proteins that are released upon hormone binding due to a conformational change and coactivators bind
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What molecules can bind hPPARs?
Arachidonic acid metabolites
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What molecules bind hRARs?
All-trans retinoic acids
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What molecules bind hRXRs?
9-cis retinoic acid
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What is the main role of hRXRs? With which receptors?
Form heterodimers with other nuclear receptors | All except for steroid receptors: PPAR, RAR, TR, and VDR
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What does the dissociation constant of a hormone correspond to?
The concentration of hormone that half saturates the receptor
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What is equation to calculation the amount of hormone bound to a receptor?
Hormone bound = Max . [hormone] / Kd + [hormone] Max = maximum possible hormone binding
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When is regulation of the hormone binding to the receptor most powerful?
Around the Kd of that hormone
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What is the purpose of a Stachard plot?
To find Kd
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What are the 2 points to know on a Stachard plot?
1. Slope = -1/Kd | 2. x-intercept = # of binding sites (or receptors if only 1 binding site per receptor)
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What does a steeper slope on a Stachard plot mean?
Tighter binding
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What does a curve instead of a line on a Stachard plot mean?
Concentration is very far from the Kd OR receptors with different affinities to a hormone
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Which receptor is used for comparison to all the others?
hGR
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What allows the common structure of the hormone binding domain of nuclear receptors to bind different hormones?
The induced fit nature of it
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Describe the specificity of the DNA binding domain of nuclear receptors.
Low DNA binding specificity (only 66 amino acids in this region). But the P box forms alpha helices that will enter the major grooves of DNA. Some of these alpha helices are important for specificity
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How do most transcription factors interact with DNA?
By entering the major grooves
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Which nuclear receptors can bind DNA as homodimers very EASILY?
Those that have palindromic DNA binding sequences: GR, MR, PR, AR, ER (all the steroid receptors), TR
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What is the direct repeat DNA binding sequence used for in nuclear receptors?
Hetero OR homodimers
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Why do different nuclear receptors have different spacing between their DNA binding sequences?
To make room for the different nuclear receptor
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Why is it very easy to get mutations in the androgen receptor?
Because it's X-linked
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What is the Type 1 GR?
MR
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What is the Type 2 GR?
GR
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Type 2 diabetes drugs that increase the sensitivity to insulin target which type of nuclear receptors?
PPAR gamma
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What are the 2 axis of a Statchard plot?
1. x-axis: bound | 2. y-axis: bound/free
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What are the 2 axis of a hormone binding curve? What shift shows tighter binding?
1. x-axis: log [hormone] 2. y-axis: relative binding LEFT SHIFT
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What domain of the nuclear receptor determines what subclass the receptor belongs to?
DNA binding domain
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What is the role of the 2 zinc fingers? Do they interact with the DNA?
To situate the P box in the right major groove of DNA | They do not interact with the DNA

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