Article
The human estrogen receptor has transcriptional activator and repressor functions in the absence of ligand.
The New biologist - 1 Jul 1990
Tzukerman M, Zhang X K, Hermann T, Wills K N, Graupner G, Pfahl M
Abstract excerpt
Most studies on the cloned human estrogen receptor (hER) have been conducted with a mutant receptor in which Gly400 is changed to Val. Here we describe two novel regulatory functions of wild-type hER that are hormone independent: (i) a constitutive activator function and (ii) a repressor activity...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- DNA
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Receptors, Estrogen
- Repressor Proteins
- Tamoxifen
- Transcription, Genetic