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AbboMax
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Positive control: Breast Cancer Tissue
Cellular location: Nucleus, Cytoplasm.
The progesterone receptor (PR) is a member of the steroid family of nuclear receptors. The PR mediates the physiological effects of progesterone, which plays a central role in reproductive events associated with the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. PR is found as a 94 kDa protein (Form A) or a 120 kDa protein (Form B) due to the use of alternative translation initiation sites. PR-B is the transcriptionally active form and is responsible for activating genes for the maintenance of the endometrium, maintenance of pregnancy, and inhibition of ovulation. PR-A is identical to PR-B except for a 165 amino acid deletion at the N-terminus. This deletion exposes a 140 amino acid inhibitory domain (ID) that acts as a repressor of steroid hormone transcriptional activity. In its inactive state, PgR forms a multiprotein complex which includes heat shock proteins and immunophins. Upon binding of progesterone hormone to its receptor, there is a conformational change that allows dimerization and binding of the receptor to progesterone response elements (PRE) sequences, resulting in activated transcription. A Null mutation in the PGR gene leads to pleiotrophic reproductive abnormalities.
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Protein Aliases: Nuclear receptor subfamily 3 group C member 3; PR; Progesterone receptor; steroid hormone receptor
Gene Aliases: 9930019P03Rik; BB114106; ENSMUSG00000074510; NR3C3; PGR; PR; PR-A; PR-B
UniProt ID: (Human) P06401, (Rat) Q63449, (Mouse) Q00175
Entrez Gene ID: (Bovine) 100848466, (Human) 5241, (Rat) 25154, (Mouse) 18667
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