Developmental phenotype of a membrane only estrogen receptor alpha (MOER) mouse.

ABSTRACT: Estrogen receptors (ERs) alpha and beta exist as nuclear, cytoplasmic, and membrane cellular pools in a wide variety of organs. The relative contributions of each ERalpha pool to in vivo phenotypes resulting from estrogen signaling have not been determined. To address this, we generated a transgenic mouse expressing only a functional E domain of ERalpha at the plasma membrane (MOER). Cells isolated from many organs showed membrane only localized E domain of ERalpha and no other receptor pools. Liver cells from MOER and wild type mice responded to 17-beta-estradiol (E2) with comparable activation of ERK and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, not seen in cells from ERalphaKO mice. Mating the MOER female mice with proven male wild type breeders produced no pregnancies because the uterus and vagin

SUBMITTER: Pedram A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2635032 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature