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Enhanced Yeast One-hybrid Screens To Identify Transcription Factor Binding To Human DNA Sequences
Published on: February 11, 2019
Rat zinc-fingers and homeoboxes 1 (ZHX1), a nuclear factor-YA-interacting nuclear protein, forms a homodimer
Satoko Hirano1, Kazuya Yamada, Hiroko Kawata
1Department of Pediatrics, Fukui Medical University, Fukui 910-1193, Japan.
Abstract:
Zinc-fingers and homeoboxes 1 (ZHX1) is a protein which interacts with the activation domain of the A subunit of nuclear factor-Y. To analyze the physiological role(s) of ZHX1, we searched ZHX1-interacting protein(s) using a yeast two-hybrid system. The rat counterpart of ZHX1 cDNAs was cloned from an ovarian granulosa cell complementary DNA (cDNA) library, indicating that ZHX1 is able to form a homodimer. An analysis of the nucleotide sequence and its deduced amino acid sequence show that rat ZHX1 consists of 873 amino acid residues. Northern blot analysis shows that ZHX1 messenger RNA is expressed ubiquitously and that the level in the ovary are not regulated by gonadotropins. Furthermore, transfection experiments with green fluorescence protein (GFP) expression vectors into human embryonic kidney HEK293 cells reveal that full-length ZHX1 fused to the GFP is localized in the nuclei. Thus, we report on the molecular cloning, expression and characterization of full-length rat ZHX1 cDNA.
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