Nuclear Hormone Receptors and Their Ligands: Metabolites in Control of Transcription

Autor: Lian Jing Tao, Dong Eun Seo, Benjamin Jackson, Natalia B. Ivanova, Fabio Rinaldo Santori
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Cells, Vol 9, Iss 12, p 2606 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4409
DOI: 10.3390/cells9122606
Popis: Nuclear hormone receptors are a family of transcription factors regulated by small molecules derived from the endogenous metabolism or diet. There are forty-eight nuclear hormone receptors in the human genome, twenty of which are still orphans. In this review, we make a brief historical journey from the first observations by Berthold in 1849 to the era of orphan receptors that began with the sequencing of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome in 1998. We discuss the evolution of nuclear hormone receptors and the putative ancestral ligands as well as how the ligand universe has expanded over time. This leads us to define four classes of metabolites—fatty acids, terpenoids, porphyrins and amino acid derivatives—that generate all known ligands for nuclear hormone receptors. We conclude by discussing the ongoing efforts to identify new classes of ligands for orphan receptors.
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