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Hormonal responsiveness in peripheral tissues is variable in patients with resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH). One cause of this may be differential interaction of RTH mutants of thyroid hormone receptor beta (TR beta) with TR auxiliary proteins (TRAPs). We used gel shift mobility assays to examine the interaction of wild-type and mutant TR beta s with retinoid X receptors (RXRs) and endogenous TRAPs. Some mutants showed reduced homodimerization but retained heterodimerization with recombinant RXRs. Wild-type TR beta formed heterodimeric complexes with multiple TRAPs in nuclear extracts of rat tissues, but RTH mutants showed variably altered heterodimerization with each TRAP. With liver nuclear extract, all mutants with impaired homodimerization also showed impaired TR beta-TRAP heterodimerization. Thus heterodimerizations with RXRs and TRAPs are differently affected by RTH mutations. Our results suggest that multiple TRAPs are expressed in tissue-specific patterns. The variability of TR beta heterodimerization with TRAPs may account, in part, for the variable tissue responsiveness in RTH.
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Some plant compounds or herb mixtures are popular alternatives to conventional therapies and contain organic compounds that bind to some nuclear receptors, such as the estrogen receptor (ER), to exert various biological effects. We studied the effect of various herbal extracts on ERalpha and ERbeta isoforms. One herbal extract, Rhei rhizoma (rhubarb), acts as an agonist to both ERalpha and ERbeta. The phytochemical lindleyin, a major component of rhubarb, might contribute to this estrogenic activity through ERalpha and ERbeta. 4-Hydroxytamoxifen, an ER antagonist, completely reversed the estrogenic activity of lindleyin. Lindleyin binds to ERalpha in vitro, as demonstrated using a fluorescent polarization assay. The in vivo effect of rhubarb extract was studied using a vitellogenin assay system in the freshwater fish, Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). There were marked increases in serum vitellogenin levels in male medaka exposed to rhubarb extract. We conclude that lindleyin, a component of some herbal medicines, is a novel phytoestrogen and might trigger many of the biological responses evoked by the physiological estrogens.
