PMID: 24771768

Authors:

Nwachukwu JC, Srinivasan S, Bruno NE, Parent AA, Hughes TS, Pollock JA, Gjyshi O, Cavett V, Nowak J, Garcia-Ordonez RD, Houtman R, Griffin PR, Kojetin DJ, Katzenellenbogen JA, Conkright MD, Nettles KW

Title:

Resveratrol modulates the inflammatory response via an estrogen receptor-signal integration network.

Journal:

Elife. 2014 Apr 25;3:e02057. doi: 10.7554/eLife.02057.

Abstract:

Resveratrol has beneficial effects on aging, inflammation and metabolism, which are thought to result from activation of the lysine deacetylase, sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), the cAMP pathway, or AMP-activated protein kinase. In this study, we report that resveratrol acts as a pathway-selective estrogen receptor-alpha (ERalpha) ligand to modulate the inflammatory response but not cell proliferation. A crystal structure of the ERalpha ligand-binding domain (LBD) as a complex with resveratrol revealed a unique perturbation of the coactivator-binding surface, consistent with an altered coregulator recruitment profile. Gene expression analyses revealed significant overlap of TNFalpha genes modulated by resveratrol and estradiol. Furthermore, the ability of resveratrol to suppress interleukin-6 transcription was shown to require ERalpha and several ERalpha coregulators, suggesting that ERalpha functions as a primary conduit for resveratrol activity.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.02057.001.