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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
53
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-23
pubmed:abstractText
Members of the Friend of GATA (FOG) family of transcriptional co-factors are required for the development of both the cardiovascular and hematopoietic systems. FOG proteins physically interact with members of the GATA family of transcriptional activators and modulate their activity. We have previously shown that FOG-2 can bind to the N-terminal zinc finger of GATA4 and, via this interaction, repress GATA4-mediated transcriptional activation of various cardiac promoters. In this report we further characterize the domain of FOG-2 necessary for repression of GATA4 transcriptional activity. We show that FOG-2-mediated repression is not blocked by the histone deacetylase inhibitor tricostatin A, suggesting that FOG-2 repression of GATA4 occurs via a histone deacetylase independent mechanism. N-terminal deletion mutants of FOG-2 revealed that the first 12 amino acids of FOG-2 are necessary for FOG-2-mediated repression. Fusion of these 12 amino acids to the DNA binding domain of GAL4 demonstrated that this region is sufficient to mediate transcriptional repression even when recruited to a heterologous promoter. Single amino acid substitutions within this N-terminal domain of FOG-2 defined the critical amino acid sequence as RRKQxxPxxI. Interestingly, a search of the NCBI protein data base identified several other partially characterized zinc finger transcriptional repressors from various vertebrate species that contained this motif at their N terminus. Taken together, these observations define a novel transcriptional repression motif and a superfamily of zinc finger transcriptional repressors.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
55017-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Databases as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Fibroblasts, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-GATA4 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Genes, Reporter, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Histone Deacetylases, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Hydroxamic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-NIH 3T3 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Transfection, pubmed-meshheading:15507435-Zinc Fingers
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
The N termini of Friend of GATA (FOG) proteins define a novel transcriptional repression motif and a superfamily of transcriptional repressors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't