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Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Translocation of an Orphan Nuclear Receptor, SXR

Katsuyoshi Kawana, Togo Ikuta, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Osamu Gotoh, Ken Takeda and Kaname Kawajiri
Molecular Pharmacology March 2003, 63 (3) 524-531; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.63.3.524
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The steroid and xenobiotic receptor (SXR) is an orphan nuclear receptor that plays a key role in the regulation of xenobiotic response by controlling the expression of drug metabolizing and clearance enzymes. We observed that pregnane X receptor (PXR), the mouse ortholog of SXR, was retained in the cytoplasm of hepatic cells of untreated mice, whereas PXR was translocated to the nucleus after administration of a ligand, pregnenolone 16α-carbonitrile. To understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the xenochemical-dependent nuclear translocation of SXR, we identified the signal sequence of SXR that regulates its nuclear translocation; using an in vitro expression system, we allocated the nuclear localization signal (NLS) to amino acid residues 66 to 92 within the DNA binding domain of SXR. The NLS of SXR is characterized as the bipartite type, and is recognized by the three molecular species of importin α: Rch1 (PTAC58), NPI1, and Qip1, in the presence of PTAC97 of importin β to target the nuclear pore. The nuclear translocation of SXR was observed as an essential regulatory event for transcription of its target genes such asCYP3A4. These results strongly suggest that the molecular mechanism of the nuclear import of SXR was different from that of another xenosensor, the constitutively active receptor, whose translocation into the nucleus is mediated by a leucine-rich xenochemical response signal in its ligand binding domain.

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Katsuyoshi Kawana, Togo Ikuta, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Osamu Gotoh, Ken Takeda and Kaname Kawajiri
Molecular Pharmacology March 1, 2003, 63 (3) 524-531; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.63.3.524

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Katsuyoshi Kawana, Togo Ikuta, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Osamu Gotoh, Ken Takeda and Kaname Kawajiri
Molecular Pharmacology March 1, 2003, 63 (3) 524-531; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.63.3.524
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