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Pax-3-DNA interaction: flexibility in the DNA binding and induction of DNA conformational changes by paired domains. 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
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The mouse Pax-3 gene encodes a protein that is a member of the Pax family of DNA binding proteins. Pax-3 contains two DNA binding domains: a paired domain (PD) and a paired type homeodomain (HD). Both domains are separated by 53 amino acids and interact synergistically with a sequence harboring an ATTA motif (binding to the HD) and a GTTCC site (binding to the PD) separated by 5 base pairs. Here we show that the interaction of Pax-3 with these two binding sites is independent of their angular orientation. In addition, the protein spacer region between the HD and the PD can be shortened without changing the spatial flexibility of the two DNA binding domains which interact with DNA. Furthermore, by using circular permutation analysis we determined that binding of Pax-3 to a DNA fragment containing a specific binding site causes conformational changes in the DNA, as indicated by the different mobilities of the Pax-3-DNA complexes. The ability to change the conformation of the DNA was found to be an intrinsic property of the Pax-3 PD and of all Pax proteins that we tested so far. These in vitro studies suggest that interaction of Pax proteins with their specific sequences in vivo may result in an altered DNA conformation. 相似文献
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Highly conserved amino acids in Pax and Ets proteins are required for DNA binding and ternary complex assembly 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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Combinatorial association of DNA-binding proteins on composite binding sites enhances their nucleotide sequence specificity and functional synergy. As a paradigm for these interactions, Pax-5 (BSAP) assembles ternary complexes with Ets proteins on the B cell-specific mb-1 promoter through interactions between their respective DNA-binding domains. Pax-5 recruits Ets-1 to bind the promoter, but not the closely related Ets protein SAP1a. Here we show that, while several different mutations increase binding of SAP1a to an optimized Ets binding site, only conversion of Val68 to an acidic amino acid facilitates ternary complex assembly with Pax-5 on the mb-1 promoter. This suggests that enhanced DNA binding by SAP1a is not sufficient for recruitment by Pax-5, but instead involves protein–protein interactions mediated by the acidic side chain. Recruitment of Ets proteins by Pax-5 requires Gln22 within the N-terminal β-hairpin motif of its paired domain. The β-hairpin also participates in recognition of a subset of Pax-5-binding sites. Thus, Pax-5 incorporates protein–protein interaction and DNA recognition functions in a single motif. The Caenorhabditis elegans Pax protein EGL-38 also binds specifically to the mb-1 promoter and recruits murine Ets-1 or the C.elegans Ets protein T08H4.3, but not the related LIN-1 protein. Together, our results define specific amino acid requirements for Pax–Ets ternary complex assembly and show that the mechanism is conserved between evolutionarily related proteins of diverse animal species. Moreover, the data suggest that interactions between Pax and Ets proteins are an important mechanism that regulates fundamental biological processes in worms and humans. 相似文献
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Pax: a murine multigene family of paired box-containing genes. 总被引:31,自引:0,他引:31
C Walther J L Guenet D Simon U Deutsch B Jostes M D Goulding D Plachov R Balling P Gruss 《Genomics》1991,11(2):424-434
A murine multigene family has been identified that shares a conserved sequence motif, the paired box, with developmental control and tissue-specific genes of Drosophila. To date five murine paired box-containing genes (Pax genes) have been described and one, Pax-1, has been associated with the developmental mutant phenotype undulated. Here we describe the paired boxes of three novel Pax genes, Pax-4, Pax-5, and Pax-6. Comparison of the eight murine paired domains of the mouse, the five Drosophila paired domains, and the three human paired domains shows that they fall into six distinct classes: class I comprises Pox meso, Pax-1, and HuP48; class II paired, gooseberry-proximal, gooseberry-distal, Pax-3, Pax-7, HuP1, and HuP2; class III Pax-2, Pax-5, and Pax-8; class IV Pax-4; class V Pox neuro; and class VI Pax-6. Pax-1 and the human gene HuP48 have identical paired domains, as do Pax-3 and HuP2 as well as Pax-7 and HuP1, and are likely to represent homologous genes in mouse and man. Identical intron-exon structure and extensive sequence homology of their paired boxes suggest that several Pax genes represent paralogs. The chromosomal location of all novel Pax genes and of Pax-3 and Pax-7 has been determined and reveals that they are not clustered. 相似文献
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PAX6, paired domain influences sequence recognition by the homeodomain 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Mishra R Gorlov IP Chao LY Singh S Saunders GF 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2002,277(51):49488-49494
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Codutti L van Ingen H Vascotto C Fogolari F Corazza A Tell G Quadrifoglio F Viglino P Boelens R Esposito G 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2008,283(48):33321-33328
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The molecular basis of the undulated/Pax-1 mutation 总被引:32,自引:0,他引:32
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Pax proteins play a diverse role in early animal development and contain the characteristic paired domain, consisting of two
conserved helix-turn-helix motifs. In many Pax proteins the paired domain is fused to a second DNA binding domain of the paired-like
homeobox family. By amino acid sequence alignments, secondary structure prediction, 3D-structure comparison, and phylogenetic
reconstruction, we analyzed the relationship between Pax proteins and members of the Tc1 family of transposases, which possibly
share a common ancestor with Pax proteins. We suggest that the DNA binding domain of an ancestral transposase (proto-Pax transposase)
was fused to a homeodomain shortly after the emergence of metazoans about one billion years ago. Using the transposase sequences
as an outgroup we reexamined the early evolution of the Pax proteins. Our novel evolutionary scenario features a single homeobox
capturing event and an early duplication of Pax genes before the divergence of porifera, indicating a more diverse role of
Pax proteins in primitive animals than previously expected.
Received: 16 February 2000 / Accepted: 13 August 2000 相似文献
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Pax-6, a murine paired box gene, is expressed in the developing CNS. 总被引:65,自引:0,他引:65
A multigene family of paired-box-containing genes (Pax genes) has been identified in the mouse. In this report, we describe the expression pattern of Pax-6 during embryogenesis and the isolation of cDNA clones spanning the entire coding region. The Pax-6 protein consists of 422 amino acids as deduced from the longest open reading frame and contains, in addition to the paired domain, a paired-type homeodomain. Beginning with day 8 of gestation, Pax-6 is expressed in discrete regions of the forebrain and the hindbrain. In the neural tube, expression is mainly confined to mitotic active cells in the ventral ventricular zone along the entire anteroposterior axis starting at day 8.5 of development. Pax-6 is also expressed in the developing eye, the pituitary and the nasal epithelium. 相似文献