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Glucocorticoid receptor inhibits microtubule assembly in vitro.
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In: Molecular and cellular endocrinology. - : Elsevier BV. - 0303-7207 .- 1872-8057. ; 110:1-2, s. 49-54
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- The effect of glucocorticoid hormones, purified glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and purified heat shock protein M(r) 90,000 (hsp90) on microtubule (MT) assembly in vitro was tested by a spectrophotometric MT assembly assay and electron microscopy. GR significantly prolonged the nucleation phase, slowed down the assembly rate and reduced the maximal amplitude of MT assembly compared with control. The effects were partially reversed by the addition of glucocorticoid hormone. GR associated with MTs. These results indicate that GR affects MT assembly in vitro, which may be a functional correlate to the structural association of GR with MTs. This implies that factors affecting GR may affect MT assembly in vivo.
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Functional analysis of a variant of the thyrotropin receptor gene in a family with Graves' disease
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In: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. - 0303-7207 .- 1872-8057. ; 111:2, s. 167-173
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- Nucleotide sequence analysis of PCR fragments corresponding to the TSH-receptor (TSHR) amplified from genomic DNA collected from the four members of a family, two of which had Graves' thyrotoxicosis, revealed a nucleotide substitution in the first position of codon 36 of the TSH-receptor gene in the two patients. The nucleotide substitution was from G to C, leading to a 36D-->36H change (D36H) in the predicted amino acid sequence of the receptor. The altered sequence was also found in DNA obtained from their mother, but not in DNA from their father. We stably expressed the two receptor variants in NIH 3T3 cells, by transfection of cDNA encoding the wildtype (WT) and D36H variants of the TSHR. Neither the binding of 125I-TSH nor the responsiveness to TSH measured as cAMP formation, appeared to be different in the TSHR-D36H compared to the TSHR-WT. Furthermore, the D36H-receptor also became desensitized when exposed to TSH as did the WT-receptor.
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