scholarly journals Detecting the Ligand-binding Domain Dimerization Activity of Estrogen Receptor Alpha Using the Mammalian Two-Hybrid Assay

Author(s):  
Yukitomo Arao ◽  
Kenneth S. Korach
eLife ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean W Fanning ◽  
Christopher G Mayne ◽  
Venkatasubramanian Dharmarajan ◽  
Kathryn E Carlson ◽  
Teresa A Martin ◽  
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Somatic mutations in the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) gene (ESR1), especially Y537S and D538G, have been linked to acquired resistance to endocrine therapies. Cell-based studies demonstrated that these mutants confer ERα constitutive activity and antiestrogen resistance and suggest that ligand-binding domain dysfunction leads to endocrine therapy resistance. Here, we integrate biophysical and structural biology data to reveal how these mutations lead to a constitutively active and antiestrogen-resistant ERα. We show that these mutant ERs recruit coactivator in the absence of hormone while their affinities for estrogen agonist (estradiol) and antagonist (4-hydroxytamoxifen) are reduced. Further, they confer antiestrogen resistance by altering the conformational dynamics of the loop connecting Helix 11 and Helix 12 in the ligand-binding domain of ERα, which leads to a stabilized agonist state and an altered antagonist state that resists inhibition.


Oncology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanhang Jia ◽  
Mark T. Miedel ◽  
Marilyn Ngo ◽  
Ryan Hessenius ◽  
Ning Chen ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J Hosfield ◽  
Sandra Weber ◽  
Nan-Sheng Li ◽  
Madline Suavage ◽  
Emily Sullivan ◽  
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Chemical manipulation of estrogen receptor alpha ligand binding domain structural mobility tunes receptor lifetime and influences breast cancer therapeutic activities. Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) extend ERα cellular lifetime, accumulation, and are antagonists in the breast and agonists in the uterine epithelium and/or in bone. Selective estrogen receptor degraders (SERDs) reduce ERα cellular lifetime/accumulation and are pure antagonists. Activating somatic ESR1 mutations Y537S and D538G enable resistance to first-line endocrine therapies. SERDs have shown significant activities in ESR1 mutant setting while few SERMs have been studied. To understand whether chemical manipulation of ERα cellular lifetime and accumulation influences antagonistic activity, we synthesized a series of methylpyrollidine lasofoxifene derivatives that maintained the drug’s antagonistic activities while uniquely tuning ERα cellular accumulation. These molecules were examined alongside a panel of antiestrogens in live cell assays of ERα cellular accumulation, lifetime, SUMOylation, and transcriptional antagonism. High-resolution x-ray crystal structures of WT and Y537S ERα ligand binding domain in complex with the methylated lasofoxifene derivatives, SERMs, and SERDs show that molecules that favor a highly buried helix 12 conformation achieve the greatest transcriptional suppression activities. Together these results show that chemical reduction of ERα cellular lifetime does not necessarily correlate with transcriptional antagonism in ESR1 mutated breast cancer cells. Importantly, our approach shows how minor chemical additions modulate receptor cellular lifetime while maintaining other activities to achieve desired SERM or SERD profiles.


2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (24) ◽  
pp. 4594-4605 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Chris Oostenbrink ◽  
Jed W. Pitera ◽  
Marola M. H. van Lipzig ◽  
John H. N. Meerman ◽  
Wilfred F. van Gunsteren

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 5254-5263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinichi Miyagawa ◽  
Anke Lange ◽  
Ikumi Hirakawa ◽  
Saki Tohyama ◽  
Yukiko Ogino ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 180 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-623
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Gonzalez ◽  
Molly Hancock ◽  
Siqi Sun ◽  
Christina L. Gersch ◽  
Jose M. Larios ◽  
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