TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential trans-activation of a muscle-specific enhancer by myogenic helix-loop-helix proteins is separable from DNA binding
AU - Chakraborty, Tushar
AU - Brennan, Thomas
AU - Olson, Eric
PY - 1991/2/15
Y1 - 1991/2/15
N2 - The muscle creatine kinase (MCK) enhancer was used as a target to study the specificity of DNA binding and trans-activation by members of the helix-loop-helix (HLH) family of myogenic regulatory factors, MyoD1, myogenin, myf-5, and MRF4. Whereas all four myogenic factors bound with similar affinities to the MCK enhancer in the presence of the widely expressed HLH protein E12, only MyoD1, myogenin, and myf-5 efficiently trans-activated the enhancer in transiently transfected 10T1/2 and 3T3 cells. That MRF4 binds the MCK enhancer without activating transcription suggests that domains in addition to those required for DNA binding are important for transcriptional activation and supports the notion that the different members of the HLH family of myogenic regulatory factors may selectively regulate unique sets of muscle-specific genes.
AB - The muscle creatine kinase (MCK) enhancer was used as a target to study the specificity of DNA binding and trans-activation by members of the helix-loop-helix (HLH) family of myogenic regulatory factors, MyoD1, myogenin, myf-5, and MRF4. Whereas all four myogenic factors bound with similar affinities to the MCK enhancer in the presence of the widely expressed HLH protein E12, only MyoD1, myogenin, and myf-5 efficiently trans-activated the enhancer in transiently transfected 10T1/2 and 3T3 cells. That MRF4 binds the MCK enhancer without activating transcription suggests that domains in addition to those required for DNA binding are important for transcriptional activation and supports the notion that the different members of the HLH family of myogenic regulatory factors may selectively regulate unique sets of muscle-specific genes.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 1847137
AN - SCOPUS:0025869184
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 266
SP - 2878
EP - 2882
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 5
ER -