Involvement of negative cofactor NC2 in active repression by zinc finger-homeodomain transcription factor AREB6.

The transcription factor AREB6 contains a homeodomain flanked by two clusters of Krueppel type C2H2 zinc fingers. AREB6 binds to the E-box consensus sequence, CACCTGT, through either the N- or the C-terminal zinc finger cluster. To gain insights into the molecular mechanism by which AREB6 activates and represses gene expression, ...
we analyzed the domain structure of AREB6 in the context of a heterologous DNA-binding domain by transient-transfection assays. The C-terminal region spanning amino acids 1011 to 1124 was identified as a conventional acidic activation domain. The region containing amino acids 754 to 901, which was identified as a repression domain, consists of 40% hydrophobic amino acids displaying no sequence similarities to other known repression domains. This region repressed transcription in vitro in a HeLa nuclear extract but not in reconstituted transcription systems consisting of transcription factor IID (TFIID), TFIIB, TFIIE, TFIIH/F, and RNA polymerase II. The addition of recombinant negative cofactor NC2 (NC2alpha/DRAP1 and NC2beta/Dr1) to the reconstituted transcription system restored the activity of the AREB6 repression domain. We further demonstrated interactions between the AREB6 repression domain and NC2alpha in yeast two-hybrid assay. Our findings suggest a mechanism of transcriptional repression that is mediated by the general cofactor NC2.
Mesh Terms:
Animals, Cell Line, Gene Expression Regulation, Hela Cells, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Mice, Phosphoproteins, Plasmids, Protein Binding, Repressor Proteins, Transcription Factors, Transcription, Genetic, Zinc Fingers
Mol. Cell. Biol.
Date: Jan. 01, 1998
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