Ohkura N, Hijikuro M, Yamamoto A, Miki K. Molecular cloning of a novel thyroid/steroid receptor superfamily gene from cultured rat neuronal cells.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1994;
205:1959-65. [PMID:
7811288 DOI:
10.1006/bbrc.1994.2900]
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Abstract
Brain neuronal cells in primary culture provide one system for the analysis of neuronal development, including apoptosis. By PCR amplification, with primers designed from conserved sequences among nuclear receptors, a novel member of the thyroid/steroid receptor superfamily was identified from forebrain neuronal cells undergoing apoptosis and designated as NOR-1 (neuron derived orphan receptor). A cDNA clone of NOR-1 encodes a 68kDa, 628 amino acid residue-containing protein, with an amino acid sequence highly homologous to the Nur77 family in its DNA-binding domain and moderately so in its putative ligand-binding domain. Using mobility shift assay, we showed that the NOR-1 protein binds to the B1a response-element which has been identified as the target sequence of the Nur77 family, suggesting that three members of the Nur77 family may transactivate common target gene(s) at different situations.
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