The Role of N-CoR During Normal Mammary Gland Development

Abstract

Understanding the regulation of N-CoR and its associated corepressors, in concert with defining the molecular mechanisms that underlie regulation by estrogen- receptor, offers a reasonable prospect of achieving new approaches to diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Here, we demonstrated that estrogen receptor recruits at least two distinct N-CoR-containing complexes as mSin3/HDAC 2/1 and also the novel TAB2/HDAC3/N-CoR complex that bind to antagonist. Also, we identification of a novel N-CoR complex containing a factor TAB2 and HDAC3 as a nuclear repressor complex. The inflammatory signals such as IL- lb causes export of the TAB2/N-CoR/HDAC3 complex from nucleus to cytoplasm by MEKK1 action. Furthermore, our results revealed that a specific complex such as TBL1/TBLR1 is required for activation of ER(alpha), based on its function in antagonizing N-CoR/SMRT by ubiquitin ligase mediated exchange for transcriptional activation. Among the N-CoR corepressor target genes, c-myc and KA1 plays important roles in the cell cycle control and metastases during breast cancer. In this report, we suggested that N-CoR is linked to Beta-catenin signaling pathway and N-CoR/TAB2 might be involved in the regulation of the expression of an important metastasis suppressor gene.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA418738

Entities

People

  • Bong-gun Ju
  • Michael G. Rosenfeld

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Breast Cancer
  • Cancer
  • Cell Physiological Processes
  • Cells
  • Cytoplasm
  • Estrogens
  • Glands
  • Hormones
  • Identification
  • Mammary Glands
  • Metastasis
  • Molecules
  • Neoplasms
  • Proteins
  • Regulations
  • Suppressors

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Breast cancer cell signaling and growth regulation.