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Essays in Biochemistry Volume 40
The Nuclear Receptor Superfamily

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Edited by Iain McEwan

University of Aberdeen, UK

Essays in Biochemistry

Contents:

• The evolution of the nuclear receptor superfamily Vincent Luadet
  
• The structural basis for transcriptional regulation by nuclear hormone receptors B.Thompson
• Role of molecular chaperones in steroid receptor action W. Pratt
  
• DNA recognition by nuclear receptors
  Frank Claessens
  
• Transcriptional activation by nuclear receptors L. Kraus
  
• Gene repression by nuclear hormone receptors A. Baniahmad
  
• Receptor mechanisms of rapid extranuclear signalling initiated by steroid hormones D. Edwards
  
• Nuclear receptors and disease: androgen receptorM. Trifiro
  
• Glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors and associated diseases
  G. Chrousos
  
• Nuclear receptors in disease: the oestrogen receptors J. Gustafsson
  
• Nuclear receptors and human disease: thyroid receptor b, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor g and orphan receptors K. Chatterjee
  

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