Herr, W., Sturm, R. A., Clerc, R. G., Corcoran, L. M., Baltimore, D., Sharp, P. A., Ingraham, H. A., Rosenfeld, M. G., Finney, M., Ruvkun, G. (December 1988) The POU domain: a large conserved region in the mammalian pit-1, oct-1, oct-2, and Caenorhabditis elegans unc-86 gene products. Genes Dev, 2 (12A). pp. 1513-6. ISSN 0890-9369
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Abstract
The POU domain1 (pronounced 'pow') is a highly charged 155–162-amino-acid (aa) region of sequence similarity contained within three mammalian transcription factors. Pit-1 (ref. 2), Oct-1 (ref. 3) and Oct-2 (ref. 4), and the product of the nematode gene unc-86 (ref. 5) which is involved in determining neural cell lineage. This domain consists of two subdomains, a C-terminal homoeo domain and an N-terminal POL -specific region separated by a short nonconserved linker; the sequence relationship shows that the POU homoeo domains form a distinct POU-related family. In the ubiquitous and lymphoid-specific octamer-motif binding proteins Oct-1 and Oct-2, the POU domain is sufficient for sequence-specific DNA binding3,4. Homoeobox domains contain a helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif6,7, first identified in bacterial repressers8. The helix-turn-helix region of the POU domain is important for DNA binding3,9 and, in other classes of homoeo-containing proteins, the entire homoeo domain is sufficient for DNA binding10–12; thus the new POU-specific region could be involved in other functions such as protein–protein interactions. Nevertheless, we show here that in fact the POU domain is a novel bipartite DNA-binding structure in which the POU homoeo and POU-specific regions form two subdomains that are both required for DNA binding but are held together by a flexible linker.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Amino Acid Sequence Animals Caenorhabditis/genetics Comparative Study DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics Genes Humans Molecular Sequence Data *Peptide Fragments/genetics Rats Transcription Factors/genetics |
| Subjects: | organism description > animal > C elegans bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > DNA binding protein organism description > animal > mammal bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > transcription factor |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs |
| Depositing User: | Gail Sherman |
| Date: | December 1988 |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2017 16:33 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2017 21:04 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/35163 |
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