THE ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAINS OF THE NF-KAPPA-B PRECURSOR P105 AND THE PROTOONCOGENE BCL-3 ACT AS SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF NF-KAPPA-B DNA-BINDING
THE ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAINS OF THE NF-KAPPA-B PRECURSOR P105 AND THE PROTOONCOGENE BCL-3 ACT AS SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF NF-KAPPA-B DNA-BINDING
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.89.6.2489
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发表时间:
1992-03-15
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
SCHEIDEREIT, C
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作者:
HATADA, EN;NIETERS, A;SCHEIDEREIT, C
The inducible pleiotropic transcription factor NF-kappa-B is composed of two subunits, p50 and p65. The p50 subunit is encoded on the N-terminal half of a 105-kDa open reading frame and contains a rel-like domain. To date, no function has been described for the C-terminal portion. We show here that the C-terminal half of p105, when expressed as a separate molecule, binds to p50 and can rapidly disrupt protein-DNA complexes of p50 or native NF-kappa-B. Deletion analysis of this precursor-derived inhibitor activity indicated a domain containing ankyrin-like repeats as necessary for inhibition. The protooncogene bcl-3, which contains seven ankyrin repeats, can equally inhibit p50 DNA binding. These observations identify bcl-3 as an inhibitor of NF-kappa-B and strongly suggest that the ankyrin repeats in these factors are involved in protein-protein interactions with the rel-like domain of p50. Comparison with other ankyrin repeat-containing proteins suggests that a subclass of these proteins acts as regulators of rel-like transcription factors.