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L A McPherson1, V R Baichwal, R J Weigel
1Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Abstract:
The ERF-1 transcription factor was previously shown to be involved in the regulation of estrogen receptor (ER) gene transcription in hormonally responsive breast and endometrial carcinomas. In this study we sought to identify the gene for ERF-1. ERF-1 activates ER gene transcription by binding to the imperfect palindrome CCCTGCGGGG within the promoter of the ER gene. ERF-1 protein was purified from the ER-positive breast carcinoma cell line, MCF7, utilizing ion exchange and DNA affinity chromatography. Peptide sequence analysis was used to isolate a 2.7 kb cDNA clone from an MCF7 cDNA library. This cDNA encodes a protein of 48 kDa previously identified as the AP2gamma transcription factor. By gel-shift analysis, in vitro synthesized ERF-1 comigrates with MCF7 native ERF-1 complex and demonstrates identical sequence binding specificity as native ERF-1. In addition, AP2 polyclonal antisera supershifts both in vitro synthesized and native ERF-1 complexes. These results show that ERF-1 is a member of the AP2 family of developmentally regulated transcription factors. Given the central role of ER expression in breast carcinoma biology, ERF-1 is likely to regulate expression of a set of genes characteristic of the hormonally-responsive breast cancer phenotype.
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