title: Opposite effects of alternative TZF spliced variants on androgen receptor.
abstract: We previously demonstrated that testicular zinc-finger protein (TZF) was a corepressor of the androgen receptor (AR). In the present study, we further showed that TZF-L, an alternative spliced variant of TZF, enhanced transactivation function of AR. Deletion analysis of TZF-L revealed that its N-terminus, which almost corresponded to that of TZF, but not its C-terminus was able to interact with AR. Additional analysis suggested that TZF and TZF-L were able to form both homodimers and heterodimers. TZF-L inhibited the homodimer formation of TZF and the intranuclear dot formation of TZF. We propose that in the unique regulation system of AR-mediated transactivation, two spliced isoforms of TZF act as coactivator and corepressor, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi 3-1-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Rong-Hua
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Hisaya
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawate
authors.forename: Keizo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohnaka
authors.forename: Masamichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishizuka
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hagiwara
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Takayanagi
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000818:Animals; D019556:COS Cells; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D019281:Dimerization; D017353:Gene Deletion; D017930:Genes, Reporter; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D051379:Mice; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D008954:Models, Biological; D041681:NIH 3T3 Cells; D010957:Plasmids / Q000378:metabolism; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011944:Receptors, Androgen / Q000378:metabolism*; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D020033:Protein Isoforms; D011944:Receptors, Androgen; D012097:Repressor Proteins; C406863:Rog protein, mouse; C498646:ZBTB32 protein, human