“…The reporter plasmids LXRE-Luc, SREBP1c-Luc, and SMILE-Luc were described previously (12,17). pCMV--gal, pcDNA3-HA-LXR␣, pcDNA3-HA-SRC-1, pcDNA3-ERR␥, pcDNA3-FLAG-SMILE, pGEX4T-1, pGEX4T-1-SMILE, pEBGempty, pEBG-SMILE, pSUPER-si-empty, and pSUPER-si-SMILE, FLAG-SMILE LXXLL mutants (m1, m2, m3, m4, and m5) were described previously (12,15,17). pEBG-LXR␣ WT, pEBG-LXR␣ C, pEBG-LXR␣ DE, and pEBG-LXR␣ AB were subcloned into the BamHI/KpnI sites of the pEBG vector.…”