Contact: John Easton
john.easton@uchospitals.edu
773-702-6241
University of Chicago Medical Center

ER-RAR Yin and Yang

Caption: This is an artistic depiction of the proposed competitive binding of Retinoic Acid Receptors (blue) and Estrogen Receptor alpha (purple) to a genomic target site to achieve the antagonistic transcriptional effects indicated by the yin and yang symbol.

Credit: Artwork by Janet Iwasa for the University of Chicago.

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