Protein Domain : IPR000324

Type:  Family Name:  Vitamin D receptor
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
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0 Child Features

0 Contains

1 Cross References

Identifier
PR00350

0 Found In

4 GO Annotations

GO Term Gene Name
GO:0003677 IPR000324
GO:0008434 IPR000324
GO:0006355 IPR000324
GO:0005634 IPR000324

4 Ontology Annotations

GO Term Gene Name
GO:0003677 IPR000324
GO:0008434 IPR000324
GO:0006355 IPR000324
GO:0005634 IPR000324

1 Parent Features

DB identifier Type Name
IPR001723 Family Nuclear hormone receptor

0 Proteins

2 Publications

First Author Title Year Journal Volume Pages PubMed ID
            7899080
            8165128