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NRF, a nuclear inhibitor of NF-kappaB proteins silencing interferon-beta promoter
M Nourbakhsh1, A Oumard, M Schwarzer
1Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, GBF, German Research Institute for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany.
Abstract:
The family of NF-kappaB/rel transcription factors regulates a variety of promoters through specific DNA-binding sites. Consistent with the role of NF-kappaB activation as a response to pathogens, it regulates the expression of immune modulating cytokines like interferon-beta3 (IFN-3). Transcriptional regulation of IFN-beta is characterized by strict constitutive repression and virus-mediated activation. A nuclear protein, called NRF (NF-kappaB repressing factor) silences constitutively the IFN-beta3 promoter by binding to the negative regulatory element (NRE). This control is achieved by a direct protein-protein interaction between NRF and proximal bound NF-kappaB factors preventing the transcriptional activation. After viral induction NRF still binds but does not any more exert its specific inhibition. NRE-related sequences found in a number of promoters like those of HIV-1, HTLV-1 and the genes of the IL-2Ralpha and IL-8 constitute functionally related silencer elements which repress the constitutive enhancing activity of NF-kappaB/rel-binding sites from these promoters.
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