Affiliation:
1. LION Bioscience AG, 69120 Heidelberg
2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Nuclear receptors are ligand-modulated transcription factors. On the basis of the completed human genome sequence, this family was thought to contain 48 functional members. However, by mining human and mouse genomic sequences, we identified FXRβ as a novel family member. It is a functional receptor in mice, rats, rabbits, and dogs but constitutes a pseudogene in humans and primates. Murine FXRβ is widely coexpressed with FXR in embryonic and adult tissues. It heterodimerizes with RXRα and stimulates transcription through specific DNA response elements upon addition of 9-
cis
-retinoic acid. Finally, we identified lanosterol as a candidate endogenous ligand that induces coactivator recruitment and transcriptional activation by mFXRβ. Lanosterol is an intermediate of cholesterol biosynthesis, which suggests a direct role in the control of cholesterol biosynthesis in nonprimates. The identification of FXRβ as a novel functional receptor in nonprimate animals sheds new light on the species differences in cholesterol metabolism and has strong implications for the interpretation of genetic and pharmacological studies of FXR-directed physiologies and drug discovery programs.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
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