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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2006

Role of the C-terminal binding protein PXDLS motif binding cleft in protein interactions and transcriptional repression.

Kate G R Quinlan, Alexis Verger, Alister Kwok, Stella H Y Lee, José Perdomo, Marco Nardini, Martino Bolognesi, Merlin Crossley

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kate G R QuinlanSchool of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
Alexis Verger
Alister Kwok
Stella H Y Lee
José Perdomo
Marco Nardini
Martino Bolognesi
Merlin Crossley
University of Sydney · AUUniversity of Milan · IT

Funding

Trans-acting factors in fetal hemoglobin silencingR01HL073443 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · PI CROSSLEY, MERLIN · 2003 to 2006
$833k
NHLBI NIH HHS HL-073443-02NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL073443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

C-terminal binding proteins (CtBPs) are multifunctional proteins that can mediate gene repression. CtBPs contain a cleft that binds Pro-X-Asp-Leu-Ser (PXDLS) motifs. PXDLS motifs occur in numerous transcription factors and in effectors of gene repression, such as certain histone deacetylases. CtBPs have been depicted as bridging proteins that self-associate and link PXDLS-containing transcription factors to PXDLS-containing chromatin-modifying enzymes. CtBPs also recruit effectors that do not contain recognizable PXDLS motifs. We have investigated the importance of the PXDLS binding cleft to CtBP's interactions with various partner proteins and to its ability to repress transcription. We used CtBP cleft mutant and cleft-filled fusion derivatives to distinguish between partner proteins that bind in the cleft and elsewhere on the CtBP surface. Functional assays demonstrate that CtBP mutants that carry defective clefts retain repression activity when fused to heterologous DNA-binding domains. This result suggests that the cleft is not essential for recruiting effectors. In contrast, when tested in the absence of a fused DNA-binding domain, disruption of the cleft abrogates repression activity. These results demonstrate that the PXDLS binding cleft is functionally important but suggest that it is primarily required for localization of the CtBP complex to promoter-bound transcription factors.

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Amino Acid SequenceGene Expression RegulationTranscription, GeneticAlcohol OxidoreductasesAnimalsBinding SitesCo-Repressor ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsMiceMolecular Sequence DataNIH 3T3 CellsPhosphoproteinsProtein BindingProtein ConformationRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTwo-Hybrid System TechniquesAlcohol OxidoreductasesCo-Repressor ProteinsCtbp2 protein, mouseDNA-Binding ProteinsPhosphoproteinsRecombinant Fusion Proteins

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PMID16940173
PMCPMC1636740
OpenAlexW2076586493

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