title: Identification and function of coactivator of estrogen receptor: ERIAP.
abstract: Estrogen receptor (ER), one member of nuclear hormone receptor (NR) family, is an estrogen-dependent transcriptional factor that plays an important role in development, progression and treatment of breast cancer. Transcriptional co-factors (co-activators and co-repressors) are critical for ER to transduce hormone and metabolic signaling to target genes. A number of functional and structural studies have elucidated the precise mechanisms of co-activator interaction with the ligand-inducible activation domain in ER via one and several LXXLL motifs (where X is any amino acid) known as NR-Box. By the yeast two-hybrid system we have identified a novel ER-alpha interacting protein ERIAP (Estrogen Receptor Interacting and Activating Protein) which contains two consensus LXXLL motifs. ERIAP associated with ER-alpha in a ligand-dependent manner, as demonstrated by in vivo immunoprecipitation and in vitro GST capture assays. The two NR boxes were essential for ERIAP interaction with ER-alpha. Furthermore, ERIAP specifically enhanced ligand-mediated ER-alpha transcriptional activity in a dose-dependent fasion and increased the expression of estrogen-responsive gene pS2. Thus, our present findings indicate that ERIAP functions as a new coactivator for ER-alpha transcriptional activity, which may play an important role in development and progression of breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute, New York 11030, USA.
authors.forename: Qinghui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Lixin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Rongguang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shao
authors.forename: Jiyou
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Saijun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fan