Traven Ana, Jelicic Branka, Sopta Mary
St Vincent's Institute, 9 Princes Street, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia.
EMBO Rep. 2006 May;7(5):496-9. doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400679.
During the past two decades, the yeast Gal4 protein has been used as a model for studying transcriptional activation in eukaryotes. Many of the properties of transcriptional regulation first demonstrated for Gal4 have since been shown to be reiterated in the function of several other eukaryotic transcriptional regulators. Technological advances based on the transcriptional properties of this factor--such as the two-hybrid technology and Gal4-inducible systems for controlled gene expression--have had far-reaching influences in fields beyond transcription. In this review, we provide an updated account of Gal4 function, including data from new technologies that have been recently applied to the study of the GAL network.
在过去二十年中,酵母Gal4蛋白一直被用作研究真核生物转录激活的模型。最初在Gal4上证明的许多转录调控特性,后来在其他几种真核生物转录调节因子的功能中也得到了体现。基于该因子转录特性的技术进步,如双杂交技术和用于可控基因表达的Gal4诱导系统,在转录以外的领域产生了深远影响。在本综述中,我们提供了Gal4功能的最新情况,包括最近应用于GAL网络研究的新技术的数据。