Many transcription coactivators interact with nuclear receptors in a ligand- and C-terminal transactivation function (AF2)-dependent manner. We isolated a nuclear factor (designated ASC-2) with such properties by using the ligand-binding domain of retinoid X receptor as a bait in a yeast two-hybrid screening. ASC-2 also interacted with other nuclear receptors, including retinoic acid receptor, thyroid hormone receptor, estrogen receptor alpha, and glucocorticoid receptor, basal factors TFIIA and TBP, and transcription integrators CBP/p300 and SRC-1. In transient cotransfections, ASC-2, either alone or in conjunction with CBP/p300 and SRC-1, stimulated ligand-dependent transactivation by wild type nuclear receptors but not mutant receptors lacking the AF2 domain. Consistent with an idea that ASC-2 is essential for the nuclear receptor function in vivo, microinjection of anti-ASC-2 antibody abrogated the ligand-dependent transactivation of retinoic acid receptor, and this repression was fully relieved by coinjection of ASC-2-expression vector. Surprisingly, ASC-2 was identical to a gene previously identified during a search for genes amplified and overexpressed in breast and other human cancers. From these results, we concluded that ASC-2 is a bona fide transcription coactivator molecule of nuclear receptors, and its altered expression may contribute to the development of cancers.
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Mesh terms: Amino Acid Sequence | Animals | Cloning, Molecular | Gene Amplification | Gene Expression | Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic | Histone Acetyltransferases | Humans | Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins | Ligands | Molecular Sequence Data | Neoplasms | Nuclear Proteins | Nuclear Receptor Coactivator 1 | Nuclear Receptor Coactivators | Oocytes | Protein Binding | Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear | Recombinant Fusion Proteins | Sequence Alignment | Trans-Activators | Transcription Factors | Transcriptional Activation | Tumor Cells, Cultured | Two-Hybrid System Techniques | Xenopus
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