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Surprising features of nuclear receptor interaction networks revealed by live-cell single-molecule imaging.
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- Retinoid-X receptor action and disruption in development.Developmental biology · 2026Review
- Genome-wide chromatin profiling reveals a nonlimiting role for RXR in macrophage-like cells stimulated with multiple nuclear receptor agonists.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Distinct SOX9 single-molecule dynamics characterize adult differentiation and fetal-like reprogrammed states in intestinal organoids.Stem cell reports · 2026Article
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- Single-molecule live imaging of subunit interactions and exchange within cellular regulatory complexes.Molecular cell · 2025Article
- Collective unstructured interactions drive chromatin binding of transcription factors.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Surprising features of nuclear receptor interaction networks revealed by live-cell single-molecule imaging.eLife · 2025Article
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Abstract
Type II nuclear receptors (T2NRs) require heterodimerization with a common partner, the retinoid X receptor (RXR), to bind cognate DNA recognition sites in chromatin. Based on previous biochemical and overexpression studies, binding of T2NRs to chromatin is proposed to be regulated by competition for a limiting pool of the core RXR subunit. However, this mechanism has not yet been tested for endogenous proteins in live cells. Using single-molecule tracking (SMT) and proximity-assisted photoactivation (PAPA), we monitored interactions between endogenously tagged RXR and retinoic acid receptor (RAR) in live cells. Unexpectedly, we find that higher expression of RAR, but not RXR, increases heterodimerization and chromatin binding in U2OS cells. This surprising finding indicates the limiting factor is not RXR but likely its cadre of obligate dimer binding partners. SMT and PAPA thus provide a direct way to probe which components are functionally limiting within a complex TF interaction network providing new insights into mechanisms of gene regulation in vivo with implications for drug development targeting nuclear receptors.
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