Fos and jun cooperate in transcriptional regulation via heterologous activation domains

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 5532-5535
Author(s):  
C Abate ◽  
D Luk ◽  
E Gagne ◽  
R G Roeder ◽  
T Curran
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Transcriptional Activity ◽  
Regulation Of Gene Expression ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Stimulation

The products of c-fos and c-jun (Fos and Jun) function in gene regulation by interacting with the AP-1 binding site. Here we have examined the contribution of Fos and Jun toward transcriptional activity by using Fos and Jun polypeptides purified from Escherichia coli. Fos contained a transcriptional activation domain as well as a region which exerted a negative influence on transcriptional activity in vitro. Moreover, distinct activation domains in both Fos and Jun functioned cooperatively in transcriptional stimulation. Thus, regulation of gene expression by Fos and Jun results from an integration of several functional domains in a bimolecular complex.

scholarly journals Fos and jun cooperate in transcriptional regulation via heterologous activation domains.

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 5532-5535 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Abate ◽  
D Luk ◽  
E Gagne ◽  
R G Roeder ◽  
T Curran
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Transcriptional Activity ◽  
Regulation Of Gene Expression ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Stimulation

The products of c-fos and c-jun (Fos and Jun) function in gene regulation by interacting with the AP-1 binding site. Here we have examined the contribution of Fos and Jun toward transcriptional activity by using Fos and Jun polypeptides purified from Escherichia coli. Fos contained a transcriptional activation domain as well as a region which exerted a negative influence on transcriptional activity in vitro. Moreover, distinct activation domains in both Fos and Jun functioned cooperatively in transcriptional stimulation. Thus, regulation of gene expression by Fos and Jun results from an integration of several functional domains in a bimolecular complex.

Reconstitution of transcriptional activation domains by reiteration of short peptide segments reveals the modular organization of a glutamine-rich activation domain

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 6056-6067
Author(s):  
M Tanaka ◽  
W Herr
Keyword(s):  
Dna Binding ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Binding Domain ◽  
Dna Binding Domain ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Pou Domain

The POU domain activator Oct-2 contains an N-terminal glutamine-rich transcriptional activation domain. An 18-amino-acid segment (Q18III) from this region reconstituted a fully functional activation domain when tandemly reiterated and fused to either the Oct-2 or GAL4 DNA-binding domain. A minimal transcriptional activation domain likely requires three tandem Q18III segments, because one or two tandem Q18III segments displayed little activity, whereas three to five tandem segments were active and displayed increasing activity with increasing copy number. As with natural Oct-2 activation domains, in our assay a reiterated activation domain required a second homologous or heterologous activation domain to stimulate transcription effectively when fused to the Oct-2 POU domain. These results suggest that there are different levels of synergy within and among activation domains. Analysis of reiterated activation domains containing mutated Q18III segments revealed that leucines and glutamines, but not serines or threonines, are critical for activity in vivo. Curiously, several reiterated activation domains that were inactive in vivo were active in vitro, suggesting that there are significant functional differences in our in vivo and in vitro assays. Reiteration of a second 18-amino-acid segment from the Oct-2 glutamine-rich activation domain (Q18II) was also active, but its activity was DNA-binding domain specific, because it was active when fused to the GAL4 than to the Oct-2 DNA-binding domain. The ability of separate short peptide segments derived from a single transcriptional activation domain to activate transcription after tandem reiteration emphasizes the flexible and modular nature of a transcriptional activation domain.

scholarly journals Reconstitution of transcriptional activation domains by reiteration of short peptide segments reveals the modular organization of a glutamine-rich activation domain.

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 6056-6067 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Tanaka ◽  
W Herr
Keyword(s):  
Dna Binding ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Binding Domain ◽  
Dna Binding Domain ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Pou Domain

The POU domain activator Oct-2 contains an N-terminal glutamine-rich transcriptional activation domain. An 18-amino-acid segment (Q18III) from this region reconstituted a fully functional activation domain when tandemly reiterated and fused to either the Oct-2 or GAL4 DNA-binding domain. A minimal transcriptional activation domain likely requires three tandem Q18III segments, because one or two tandem Q18III segments displayed little activity, whereas three to five tandem segments were active and displayed increasing activity with increasing copy number. As with natural Oct-2 activation domains, in our assay a reiterated activation domain required a second homologous or heterologous activation domain to stimulate transcription effectively when fused to the Oct-2 POU domain. These results suggest that there are different levels of synergy within and among activation domains. Analysis of reiterated activation domains containing mutated Q18III segments revealed that leucines and glutamines, but not serines or threonines, are critical for activity in vivo. Curiously, several reiterated activation domains that were inactive in vivo were active in vitro, suggesting that there are significant functional differences in our in vivo and in vitro assays. Reiteration of a second 18-amino-acid segment from the Oct-2 glutamine-rich activation domain (Q18II) was also active, but its activity was DNA-binding domain specific, because it was active when fused to the GAL4 than to the Oct-2 DNA-binding domain. The ability of separate short peptide segments derived from a single transcriptional activation domain to activate transcription after tandem reiteration emphasizes the flexible and modular nature of a transcriptional activation domain.

scholarly journals Identification, Mutational Analysis, and Coactivator Requirements of Two Distinct Transcriptional Activation Domains of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hap4 Protein

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Stebbins ◽  
Steven J. Triezenberg
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Amino Acids ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Transcriptional Activity ◽  
Mutational Analysis ◽  
Transcriptional Coactivator ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domains

ABSTRACT The Hap4 protein of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae activates the transcription of genes that are required for growth on nonfermentable carbon sources. Previous reports suggested the presence of a transcriptional activation domain within the carboxyl-terminal half of Hap4 that can function in the absence of Gcn5, a transcriptional coactivator protein and histone acetyltransferase. The boundaries of this activation domain were further defined to a region encompassing amino acids 359 to 476. Within this region, several clusters of hydrophobic amino acids are critical for transcriptional activity. This activity does not require GCN5 or two other components of the SAGA coactivator complex, SPT3 and SPT8, but it does require SPT7 and SPT20. Contrary to previous reports, a Hap4 fragment comprising amino acids 1 to 330 can support the growth of yeast on lactate medium, and when tethered to lexA, can activate a reporter gene with upstream lexA binding sites, demonstrating the presence of a second transcriptional activation domain. In contrast to the C-terminal activation domain, the transcriptional activity of this N-terminal region depends on GCN5. We conclude that the yeast Hap4 protein has at least two transcriptional activation domains with strikingly different levels of dependence on specific transcriptional coactivator proteins.

scholarly journals MLL and CREB Bind Cooperatively to the Nuclear Coactivator CREB-Binding Protein

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2249-2258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ernst ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Mary Huang ◽  
Richard H. Goodman ◽  
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Single Amino Acid ◽  
Creb Binding Protein ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Adenovirus E1a

ABSTRACT A fragment of the mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) gene (Mll, HRX, ALL-1) was identified in a yeast genetic screen designed to isolate proteins that interact with the CREB–CREB-binding protein (CBP) complex. When tested for binding to CREB or CBP individually, this MLL fragment interacted directly with CBP, but not with CREB. In vitro binding experiments refined the minimal region of interaction to amino acids 2829 to 2883 of MLL, a potent transcriptional activation domain, and amino acids 581 to 687 of CBP (the CREB-binding or KIX domain). The transactivation activity of MLL was dependent on CBP, as either adenovirus E1A expression, which inhibits CBP activity, or alteration of MLL residues important for CBP interaction proved effective at inhibiting MLL-mediated transactivation. Single amino acid substitutions within the MLL activation domain revealed that five hydrophobic residues, potentially forming a hydrophobic face of an amphipathic helix, were critical for the interaction of MLL with CBP. Using purified components, we found that the MLL activation domain facilitated the binding of CBP to phosphorylated CREB. In contrast with paradigms in which factors compete for limiting quantities of CBP, these results reveal that two distinct transcription factor activation domains can cooperatively target the same motif on CBP.

scholarly journals Activation of a C-terminal Transcriptional Activation Domain of ERK5 by Autophosphorylation

2007 ◽  
Vol 282 (49) ◽  
pp. 35449-35456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Morimoto ◽  
Kunio Kondoh ◽  
Satoko Nishimoto ◽  
Kazuya Terasawa ◽  
Eisuke Nishida
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Regulation Of Gene Expression ◽  
Kinase Domain ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Fibroblastic Cells

ERK5 plays a crucial role in many biological processes by regulating transcription. ERK5 has a large C-terminal-half that contains a transcriptional activation domain. However, it has remained unclear how its transcriptional activation activity is regulated. Here, we show that the activated kinase activity of ERK5 is required for the C-terminal-half to enhance the AP-1 activity, and that the activated ERK5 undergoes autophosphorylation on its most C-terminal region. Changing these phosphorylatable threonine and serine residues to unphosphorylatable alanines significantly reduces the transcriptional activation activity of ERK5. Moreover, phosphomimetic mutants of the C-terminal-half of ERK5 without an N-terminal kinase domain are shown to be able to enhance the AP-1 activity in fibroblastic cells. These results reveal the role of the stimulus-induced ERK5 autophosphorylation in regulation of gene expression.

scholarly journals Transcriptional activation upon pheromone stimulation mediated by a small domain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ste12p.

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 6410-6418 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Pi ◽  
C T Chien ◽  
S Fields
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Map Kinase ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Transcriptional Activity ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Activation Domains ◽  
Hybrid Proteins ◽  
High Level ◽  
Transcriptional Induction

In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Ste12p induces transcription of pheromone-responsive genes by binding to a DNA sequence designated the pheromone response element. We generated a series of hybrid proteins of Ste12p with the DNA-binding and activation domains of the transcriptional activator Gal4p to define a pheromone induction domain of Ste12p sufficient to mediate pheromone-induced transcription by these hybrid proteins. A minimal pheromone induction domain, delineated as residues 301 to 335 of Ste12p, is dependent on the pheromone mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway for induction activity. Mutation of the three serine and threonine residues within the minimal pheromone induction domain did not affect transcriptional induction, indicating that the activity of this domain is not directly regulated by MAP kinase phosphorylation. By contrast, mutation of the two tyrosines or their preceding acidic residues led to a high level of transcriptional activity in the absence of pheromone and consequently to the loss of pheromone induction. This constitutively high activity was not affected by mutations in the MAP kinase cascade, suggesting that the function of the pheromone induction domain is normally repressed in the absence of pheromone. By two-hybrid analysis, this minimal domain interacts with two negative regulators, Dig1p and Dig2p (also designated Rst1p and Rst2p), and the interaction is abolished by mutation of the tyrosines. The pheromone induction domain itself has weak and inducible transcriptional activity, and its ability to potentiate transcription depends on the activity of an adjacent activation domain. These results suggest that the pheromone induction domain of Ste12p mediates transcriptional induction via a two-step process: the relief of repression and synergistic transcriptional activation with another activation domain.

Transcriptional regulation by Fos and Jun in vitro: interaction among multiple activator and regulatory domains

1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3624-3632
Author(s):  
C Abate ◽  
D Luk ◽  
T Curran
Keyword(s):  
Transcriptional Regulation ◽  
Dna Binding ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Leucine Zipper ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Regulatory Domains ◽  
Heterodimeric Complex ◽  
Transcriptional Stimulation

The proteins encoded by the proto-oncogenes c-fos and c-jun (Fos and Jun, respectively) form a heterodimeric complex that regulates transcription by interacting with the DNA-regulatory element known as the activator protein 1 (AP-1) binding site. Fos and Jun are members of a family of related transcription factors that dimerize via a leucine zipper structure and interact with DNA through a bipartite domain formed between regions of each protein that are rich in basic amino acids. Here we have defined other domains in the Fos-Jun heterodimer that contribute to transcriptional function in vitro. Although DNA-binding specificity is mediated by the leucine zipper and basic regions, Jun also contains a proline- and glutamine-rich region that functions as an ancillary DNA-binding domain but does not contribute directly to transcriptional activation. Transcriptional stimulation in vitro was associated with two regions in Fos and a single N-terminal activation domain in Jun. These activator regions were capable of operating independently; however, they appear to function cooperatively in the heterodimeric complex. The activity of these domains was modulated by inhibitory regions in Fos and Jun that repressed transcription in vitro. In the context of the heterodimer, the Jun activation domain was the major contributor to transcriptional stimulation and the inhibitory regions in Fos were the major contributors to transcriptional repression in vitro. Potentially, the inhibitory domains could serve a regulatory function in vivo. Thus, transcriptional regulation by the Fos-Jun heterodimer results from a complex integration of multiple activator and regulatory domains.

In Vitro Activity of the EWS Oncogene Transcriptional Activation Domain†

Biochemistry ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (13) ◽  
pp. 2849-2857 ◽  
Author(s):  
King Pan Ng ◽  
Kim K. C. Li ◽  
Kevin A. W. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Vitro Activity ◽  
In Vitro Activity ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain

scholarly journals ERK5 Is a Novel Type of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Containing a Transcriptional Activation Domain

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 8382-8389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert G. Kasler ◽  
Joseph Victoria ◽  
Omar Duramad ◽  
Astar Winoto
Keyword(s):  
T Cells ◽  
Map Kinase ◽  
Transcriptional Activation ◽  
Antigen Receptor ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase ◽  
Calcium Flux ◽  
Activation Domain ◽  
Transcriptional Activation Domain ◽  
Mitogen Activated Protein

ABSTRACT Previous studies have shown that upregulation of the orphan steroid receptor Nur77 is required for the apoptosis of immature T cells in response to antigen receptor signals. Transcriptional upregulation of Nur77 in response to antigen receptor signaling involves two binding sites for the MEF2 family of transcription factors located in the Nur77 promoter. Calcium signals greatly increase the activity of MEF2D in T cells via a posttranslational mechanism. The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase ERK5 was isolated in a yeast two-hybrid screen using the MADS-MEF2 domain of MEF2D as bait. ERK5 resembles the other MAP kinase family members in its N-terminal half, but it also contains a 400-amino-acid C-terminal domain of previously uncharacterized function. We report here that the C-terminal region of ERK5 contains a MEF2-interacting domain and, surprisingly, also a potent transcriptional activation domain. These domains are both required for coactivation of MEF2D by ERK5. The MEF2-ERK5 interaction was found to be activation dependent in vivo and inhibitable in vitro by the calcium-sensitive MEF2 repressor Cabin 1. The transcriptional activation domain of ERK5 is required for maximal MEF2 activity in response to calcium flux in T cells, and it can activate the endogenous Nur77 gene when constitutively recruited to the Nur77 promoter via MEF2 sites. These studies provide insights into a mechanism whereby MEF2 activity can respond to calcium signaling and suggest a novel, unexpected mechanism of MAP kinase function.

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