TY - JOUR AU - Wright, Peter E. AB - Nuclear hormone receptors are ligand-activated transcription factors that regulate the expression of genes that are essential for development, reproduction and homeostasis 1 . The hormone response is mediated through recruitment of p160 receptor coactivators and the general transcriptional coactivator CBP/p300, which function synergistically to activate transcription 2 . These coactivators exhibit intrinsic histone acetyltransferase activity, function in the remodelling of chromatin, and facilitate the recruitment of RNA polymerase II and the basal transcription machinery 3 . The activities of the p160 coactivators are dependent on CBP. Both coactivators are essential for proper cell-cycle control, differentiation and apoptosis, and are implicated in cancer and other diseases 4,5,6,7 . To elucidate the molecular basis of assembling the multiprotein activation complex, we undertook a structural and thermodynamic analysis of the interaction domains of CBP and the activator for thyroid hormone and retinoid receptors 8 . Here we show that although the isolated domains are intrinsically disordered, they combine with high affinity to form a cooperatively folded helical heterodimer. Our study uncovers a unique mechanism, called ‘synergistic folding’, through which p160 coactivators recruit CBP/p300 to allow transmission of the hormonal signal to the transcriptional machinery. TI - Mutual synergistic folding in recruitment of CBP/p300 by p160 nuclear receptor coactivators JO - Nature DO - 10.1038/415549a DA - 2002-01-31 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/mutual-synergistic-folding-in-recruitment-of-cbp-p300-by-p160-nuclear-cUl7KQ2Iyh SP - 549 EP - 553 VL - 415 IS - 6871 DP - DeepDyve ER -