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Enhancement of thyroid hormone receptor isoform specificity by insertion of a distant half-site into a thyroid hormone response element.
Endocrinology - 1 Apr 1996
Zavacki A M, Zhang C Y, Harney J W, Larsen P R
Abstract excerpt
The two isoforms of thyroid hormone receptor (TR), alpha and beta, are highly homologous, except in the amino-terminal domain. Specific physiological roles for the receptor isoforms have not yet been defined. In transient transfection assays, TRalpha is twice as potent a thyroid hormone (T3)-dependent transactivator as TRbeta on a number of thyroid hormone response elements (TREs). Using chimeras of TRalpha and...
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