LIS - Legume Information System
Information about legume traits for crop improvement
CicerMine
v5.1.0.3
Cicer data from the Legume Information System
v5.1.0.3
Cicer data from the Legume Information System
| Type | Family |
| Description | Steroid or nuclear hormone receptors (NRs) constitute an important super- family of transcription regulators that are involved in widely diverse physiological functions, including control of embryonic development, cell differentiation and homeostasis. Members of the superfamily include thesteroid hormone receptors and receptors for thyroid hormone, retinoids, 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D3 and a variety of other ligands. The proteins function as dimeric molecules in nuclei to regulate the transcription of target genes in a ligand-responsive manner [, ]. In addition to C-terminalligand-binding domains, these nuclear receptors contain a highly-conserved, N-terminal zinc-finger that mediates specific binding to target DNA sequences, termed ligand-responsive elements. In the absence of ligand, steroid hormone receptors are thought to be weakly associated with nuclearcomponents; hormone binding greatly increases receptor affinity. NRs are extremely important in medical research, a large number of them being implicated in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hormone resistancesyndromes, etc. While several NRs act as ligand-inducible transcription factors, many do not yet have a defined ligand and are accordingly termed "orphan"receptors. During the last decade, more than 300 NRs have been described, many of which are orphans, which cannot easily be named due to current nomenclature confusions in the literature. However, a new system has recently been introduced in an attempt to rationalise the increasingly complex set of names used to describe superfamily members.The vitamin D receptor (VDR) mediates the signal of 1-a,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by binding to vitamin D responsive elements - it functions either as a homodimer, or as a heterodimer of vitamin D and retinoid X receptor subunits. Deficiency of VDR causes type IIA rickets []. |
| Short Name | VitD_rcpt |
