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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-11-10
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
In mammals, current evidence supports the view that Myc-responsive activities are regulated in part through an intracellular balance between levels of transcriptionally-active Myc/Max heterodimers and those of transcriptionally-inert Max/Max, Mad/Max and Mxi1/Max complexes. To gain insight into the roles of Mad and Mxi1 in cellular growth and differentiation and to fortify key structure-function relationships from an evolutionary standpoint, low stringency hybridization screens were used to identify potential homologs of these Max-associated proteins in the zebra fish genome. A single class of cDNA clones that cross-hybridized both to human mad and mxi1 probes was shown to encode a putative protein with significantly greater homology to mammalian Mxi1 than to Mad, particularly in the basic and helix-loop-helix (bHLH) regions. The high degree of structural relatedness between vertebrate Mxi1 proteins apparent in molecular modelling studies was consistent with the findings that the HLH/leucine zipper (LZ) region of zMxi1 exhibited the same profile of dimerization specificities as its mammalian counterpart in the two-hybrid system and that zmxi1 could, like human mxi1 (Lahoz et al., 1994), suppress the oncogenic potential of mouse c-myc in a mammalian cell. Finally, a comparison of steady-state zc-myc and zmxi1 mRNA levels during zebra fish embryogenesis demonstrated (i) high levels of zc-myc relative to zmxi1 mRNA during initiation of organogenesis, a period characterized by intense growth and active differentiation and (ii) rising levels of zmxi1 mRNA during progression towards the terminally differentiated state. These contrasting patterns of developmental expression together with the capacity of zmxi1 to repress myc-induced transformation support a model for the regulation, by Max-associated proteins, of Myc functions in the control of normal cell development and neoplastic growth.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Basic Helix-Loop-Helix..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, Complementary, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MAX protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MXD1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MXI1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Max protein, zebrafish, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Mxi1 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Myc associated factor X, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Suppressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Zebrafish Proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0950-9232
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9
pubmed:geneSymbol
mad, mxi1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3167-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Embryonic Development, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Genes, Tumor Suppressor, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Tumor Suppressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Zebrafish, pubmed-meshheading:7936639-Zebrafish Proteins
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Evolutionary relationships and functional conservation among vertebrate Max-associated proteins: the zebra fish homolog of Mxi1.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't