Abstract
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor (AhRR) suppressed, in a ligand independent manner, the ability of estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) to enhance the transcription of heterologous estrogen-responsive reporter plasmids in transient transfection assays, as well as of endogenous estrogen-responsive genes in human breast cancer MCF-7 cells. AhRR repressed ERalpha-mediated trans-activation by interfering allosterically with the ligand-independent function of AF-1. The direct interaction between AhRR and ERalpha at the multipartite binding site of ERalpha, which ranges from a DNA binding domain to a ligand binding domain, but did not include the AF-1 moiety was confirmed by a coimmunoprecipitation assay. The AhRR/ERalpha complex was formed in the nuclear compartment and was entrapped by a cis-element in the promoter of E2-responsive genes, as determined in a chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. AhRR might play a role of co-repressor on the transcriptional activity of the ERalpha homodimer.
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