Membrane and nuclear estrogen receptor alpha actions: from tissue specificity to medical implications

JF Arnal, F Lenfant, R Metivier, G Flouriot… - Physiological …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) has been recognized now for several decades as playing a
key role in reproduction and exerting functions in numerous nonreproductive tissues. In this …

International union of basic and clinical pharmacology CXIII: Nuclear receptor superfamily—Update 2023

TP Burris, IMS de Vera, I Cote, CA Flaveny… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The NR superfamily comprises 48 transcription factors in humans that control a plethora of
gene network programs involved in a wide range of physiologic processes. This review will …

Chromatin interaction analysis reveals changes in small chromosome and telomere clustering between epithelial and breast cancer cells

AR Barutcu, BR Lajoie, RP McCord, CE Tye, D Hong… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Higher-order chromatin structure is often perturbed in cancer and other
pathological states. Although several genetic and epigenetic differences have been charted …

Real-time imaging of a single gene reveals transcription-initiated local confinement

T Germier, S Kocanova, N Walther, A Bancaud… - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
Genome dynamics are intimately linked to the regulation of gene expression, the most
fundamental mechanism in biology, yet we still do not know whether the very process of …

Long-range gene regulation in hormone-dependent cancer

TT Tettey, L Rinaldi, GL Hager - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The human genome is organized into multiple structural layers, ranging from chromosome
territories to progressively smaller substructures, such as topologically associating domains …

Androgen and androgen receptor as enhancers of M2 macrophage polarization in allergic lung inflammation

M Becerra-Díaz, AB Strickland, A Keselman… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
Allergic asthma is a disease initiated by a breach of the lung mucosal barrier and an
inappropriate Th2 inflammatory immune response that results in M2 polarization of alveolar …

Pre-established chromatin interactions mediate the genomic response to glucocorticoids

AM D'Ippolito, IC McDowell, A Barrera, LK Hong… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a hormone-inducible transcription factor involved in
metabolic and anti-inflammatory gene expression responses. To investigate what controls …

Estradiol-induced epigenetically mediated mechanisms and regulation of gene expression

T Kovács, E Szabó-Meleg, IM Ábrahám - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gonadal hormone 17β-estradiol (E2) and its receptors are key regulators of gene
transcription by binding to estrogen responsive elements in the genome. Besides the …

Genome-wide estrogen receptor activity in breast cancer

AM Farcas, S Nagarajan, S Cosulich, JS Carroll - Endocrinology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The largest subtype of breast cancer is characterized by the expression and activity of the
estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha/ER). Although several effective therapies have …

Signaling by steroid hormones in the 3D nuclear space

F Le Dily, M Beato - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Initial studies showed that ligand-activated hormone receptors act by binding to the proximal
promoters of individual target genes. Genome-wide studies have now revealed that …