Retinoic acid receptor
| retinoic acid receptor alpha | |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | RARA |
| Entrez | 5914 |
| HUGO | 9864 |
| OMIM | 180240 |
| RefSeq | NM_000964 |
| UniProt | P10276 |
| Other data | |
| Locus | Chr. 17 q21.1 |
| retinoic acid receptor beta | |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | RARB |
| Entrez | 5915 |
| HUGO | 9865 |
| OMIM | 180220 |
| RefSeq | NM_000965 |
| UniProt | P10826 |
| Other data | |
| Locus | Chr. 3 p24 |
| retinoic acid receptor gamma | |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | |
| Symbol | RARG |
| Entrez | 5916 |
| HUGO | 9866 |
| OMIM | 180190 |
| RefSeq | NM_000966 |
| UniProt | P13631 |
| Other data | |
| Locus | Chr. 12 q13 |
The retinoic acid receptor (RAR) is a type of nuclear receptor which can also act as a transcription factor[1] that is activated by both all-trans retinoic acid and 9-cis retinoic acid.[2] There are three retinoic acid receptors (RAR), RAR-alpha, RAR-beta, and RAR-gamma, encoded by the RARA, RARB, RARG genes, respectively. Each receptor isoform has several splice variants: four- for alpha, four- for beta, and two- for gamma.
As with other type II nuclear receptors, RAR heterodimerizes with RXR and in the absence of ligand, the RAR/RXR dimer binds to hormone response elements known as retinoic acid response elements (RAREs) complexed with corepressor protein. Binding of agonist ligands to RAR results in dissociation of corepressor and recruitment of coactivator protein that, in turn, promotes transcription of the downstream target gene into mRNA and eventually protein.
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External links
- Retinoic Acid Receptor at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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