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Nuclear Receptor Repression Mediated by a Complex Containing SMRT, mSin3A, and Histone Deacetylase

CellPublished 1 May 1997Open access
László Nagy, Hung‐Ying Kao, Debabrata Chakravarti, Richard J. Lin, Christian A. Hassig, Donald E. Ayer
Citations1,251
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score22.61
SNIP7.62
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TL;DR

A convergence of repression pathways for bHLH-Zip proteins and nuclear receptors is established and suggests this type of regulation may be more widely conserved than previously suspected.

Abstract

The transcriptional corepressors SMRT and N-CoR function as silencing mediators for retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors. Here we show that SMRT and N-CoR directly interact with mSin3A, a corepressor for the Mad-Max heterodimer and a homolog of the yeast global-transcriptional repressor Sin3p. In addition, we demonstrate that the recently characterized histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) interacts with Sin3A and SMRT to form a multisubunit repressor complex. Consistent with this model, we find that HDAC inhibitors synergize with retinoic acid to stimulate hormone-responsive genes and differentiation of myeloid leukemia (HL-60) cells. This work establishes a convergence of repression pathways for bHLH-Zip proteins and nuclear receptors and suggests this type of regulation may be more widely conserved than previously suspected.

Keywords

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology