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SUBMITTER: Jehle K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3979403 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jehle Katja K Cato Laura L Neeb Antje A Muhle-Goll Claudia C Jung Nicole N Smith Emmanuel W EW Buzon Victor V Carbó Laia R LR Estébanez-Perpiñá Eva E Schmitz Katja K Fruk Ljiljana L Luy Burkhard B Chen Yu Y Cox Marc B MB Bräse Stefan S Brown Myles M Cato Andrew C B AC
The Journal of biological chemistry 20140212 13
The androgen receptor (AR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that is essential for prostate cancer development. It is activated by androgens through its ligand-binding domain (LBD), which consists predominantly of 11 α-helices. Upon ligand binding, the last helix is reorganized to an agonist conformation termed activator function-2 (AF-2) for coactivator binding. Several coactivators bind to the AF-2 pocket through conserved LXXLL or FXXLF sequences to enhance the activity of the recept ...[more]