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Intrinsic structural disorder of the C-terminal activation domain from the bZIP transcription factor Fos
K M Campbell1, A R Terrell, P J Laybourn
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1870, USA.
Abstract:
The bZIP proto-oncoprotein c-Fos activates transcription of a wide variety of genes involved in cell growth. The C-terminal activation domain of c-Fos is functionally independent of the remainder of the protein. Fos-AD corresponds to the C-terminal activation domain of human c-Fos (residues 216-380). Fos-AD suppresses (squelches) transcription in vitro, as expected for a functional activation domain lacking a DNA-binding domain. Fos-AD is unstructured and highly mobile, as demonstrated by circular dichroism spectra indicative of unfolded proteins, a lack of (1)H chemical shift dispersion, and negative (1)H-(15)N heteronuclear nuclear Overhauser effects. The hydrodynamic properties of Fos-AD are also consistent with an extended structure. We conclude that the C-terminal domain of human c-Fos is biologically active yet intrinsically disordered. Our results suggest that conformational disorder is an integral aspect of the diverse contributions to transcriptional regulation by c-Fos.
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