Homeobox gene transcriptions
Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Henry A. Hoff
"Transcription factors Pax-4 and Pax-6 are known to be key regulators of pancreatic cell differentiation and development. [...] The gene-targeting experiments revealed that Pax-4 and Pax-6 cannot substitute for each other in tissue with overlapping expression of both genes. [The] DNA-binding specificities of Pax-4 and Pax-6 are similar. The Pax-4 homeodomain [HD] was shown to preferentially dimerize on DNA sequences consisting of an inverted TAAT motif, separated by 4-nucleotide spacing."[1]
The "crucial difference between the binding sites of Antennapedia class and TTF-1 HDs is in the motifs 5'-TAAT-3', recognized by Antennapedia [a Hox gene, a subset of homeobox genes, first discovered in Drosophila which controls the formation of legs during development], and 5'-CAAG-3', preferentially bound by TTF-1. [The] binding of wild type and mutants TTF-1 HD to oligonucleotides containing either 5'-TAAT-3' or 5'-CAAG-3' indicate that only in the presence of the latter motif the Gln50 in TTF-1 HD is utilized for DNA recognition."[2]
Contents
Human genes
Interactions
Consensus sequences
An apparent consensus sequence is 5'-CAAG-3'.[2]
Samplings
Copying a portion of the homeobox motif of CAAG and putting it in "⌘F" finds eight located between ZSCAN22 and A1BG and 21 between ZNF497 and A1BG as can be found by the computer programs.
See also
References
- ↑ Anna Kalousová, Vladimı́r Beneš, Jan Pačes, Václav Pačes and Zbyněk Kozmik (June 1999). "DNA Binding and Transactivating Properties of the Paired and Homeobox Protein Pax4". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 259 (3): 510–518. PMID 10364449. Retrieved 6 May 2020.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 G. Damante, D. Fabbro, L. Pelizari, D. Civitareale, S. Guazzi, M. Polycarpou-Schwartz, S. Cauci, F. Quadrifoglio, S. Formisano and R. Di Lauro (20 June 1994). "Sequence-specific DNA recognition by the thyroid transcription factor-1 homeodomain" (PDF). Nucleic Acids Research. 22 (15): 3075–83. doi:10.1093/nar/22.15.3075. PMID 7915030. Retrieved 6 May 2020.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)