Murre C, Voronova A, Baltimore D
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142.
Mol Cell Biol. 1991 Feb;11(2):1156-60. doi: 10.1128/mcb.11.2.1156-1160.1991.
Recent studies have identified a family of DNA-binding proteins that share a common DNA-binding and dimerization domain with the potential to form a helix-loop-helix (HLH) structure. Various HLH proteins can form heterodimers that bind to a common DNA sequence, termed the E2-box. We demonstrate here that E2-box-binding B-cell- and myocyte-specific nuclear factors contain subunits which are identical or closely related to ubiquitously expressed (E12/E47) HLH proteins. These biochemical function for E12/E47-like molecules in mammalian differentiation, similar to the genetically defined function of daughterless in Drosophila development.
最近的研究鉴定出了一类DNA结合蛋白家族,它们具有共同的DNA结合和二聚化结构域,有可能形成螺旋-环-螺旋(HLH)结构。各种HLH蛋白可以形成异源二聚体,这些异源二聚体结合到一个共同的DNA序列上,该序列被称为E2盒。我们在此证明,结合E2盒的B细胞和肌细胞特异性核因子包含与普遍表达的(E12/E47)HLH蛋白相同或密切相关的亚基。这些E12/E47样分子在哺乳动物分化中的生化功能,类似于果蝇发育中无女儿基因所定义的功能。