A complex containing N-CoR, mSin3 and histone deacetylase mediates transcriptional repression.

Heinzel, T; Lavinsky, R M; Mullen, T M; Söderstrom, M; Laherty, C D; Torchia, J; Yang, W M; Brard, G et al. · Nature · 1997

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Transcriptional repression by nuclear receptors has been correlated to binding of the putative co-repressor, N-CoR. A complex has been identified that contains N-CoR, the Mad presumptive co-repressor mSin3, and the histone deacetylase mRPD3, and which is required for both nuclear receptor- and Mad-dependent repression, but not for repression by transcription factors of the ets-domain family. These data predict that the ligand-induced switch of heterodimeric nuclear receptors from repressor to activator functions involves the exchange of complexes containing histone deacetylases with those that have histone acetylase activity.

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