Steroid hormones affect cells by binding to intracellular receptors, promoting which process? transcription of specific genes

Steroid hormones affects cells by binding to intracellular receptor complex that composed of a single polypeptide chains, which promote or inhibit transcription of specific genes. The receptors for steroid hormones are located inside the target cells specifically in the nucleus or cytoplasm, which bind to regions of receptive genes.

Therefore, the function of steroid hormones is to control gene expression in target cells by selectively affecting the transcription of a set of genes. The proteins concentration of the target cells are altered, which could result to the modification of the phenotype of cell.