X-ray crystal structure of the ancestral 3-ketosteroid receptor-progesterone-mifepristone complex shows mifepristone bound at the coactivator binding interface.

Steroid receptors are a subfamily of nuclear receptors found throughout all metazoans. They are highly important in the regulation of development, inflammation, and reproduction and their misregulation has been implicated in hormone insensitivity syndromes and cancer. Steroid binding to SRs drives a...

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Main Authors: Jennifer K Colucci, Eric A Ortlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3834340?pdf=render