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Published on: August 11, 2010
Friend of GATA-1-independent transcriptional repression: a novel mode of GATA-1 function
Kirby D Johnson1, Meghan E Boyer, Jeong-Ah Kang
1Department of Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, USA.
Abstract:
The GATA-1-interacting protein Friend Of GATA-1 (FOG-1) is essential for the proper transcriptional activation and repression of numerous GATA-1 target genes. Although FOG-1-independent activation by GATA-1 has been described, all known examples of GATA-1-mediated repression are FOG-1 dependent. In the GATA-1-null G1E cell line, estrogen receptor ligand binding domain (ER) chimeras of either wild-type GATA-1 or a FOG-1-binding defective mutant of GATA-1 repressed several genes similarly upon activation with beta-estradiol. Repression also occurred in a FOG-1-null cell line expressing ER-GATA-1 and during ex vivo erythropoiesis. At the Lyl1 and Rgs18 loci, we found highly restricted occupancy by GATA-1 and GATA-2, indicating that these genes are direct targets of GATA factor regulation. The identification of genes repressed by GATA-1 independent of FOG-1 defines a novel mode of GATA-1-mediated transcriptional regulation.
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