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Rapid Synthesis and Screening of Chemically Activated Transcription Factors with GFP-based Reporters
Published on: November 27, 2013
The human estrogen receptor has two independent nonacidic transcriptional activation functions
1Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM Institut de Chimie Biologique, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
Abstract:
We have previously reported the presence of a hormone-inducible transcriptional activation function (TAF-2) within the region of the estrogen receptor (ER) that contains the hormone binding domain. We show here that the N-terminal A/B region of the ER contains an independent constitutive activation function (TAF-1) that exhibits cell type specificity since it activates transcription efficiently in chicken embryo fibroblasts, but only poorly in HeLa cells. By analyzing the ability of TAF-1, TAF-2, and the GAL4 and VP16 acidic activating domains (AADs) to homosynergize and heterosynergize with one another and with the factor binding to the upstream element (UE) of the adenovirus 2 major late promoter, we show that the activation properties of TAF-1 and TAF-2 are different and distinct from those of AADs, in agreement with the absence of acidic amino acid stretches in TAF-1 and TAF-2.
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