title: Human interferon regulatory factor 1: intron-exon organization.
abstract: Interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 1 (IRF-1) is a transcriptional regulatory protein that mediates the transcriptional activation of the IFN-alpha and IFN-beta genes by viruses and IFNs. To characterize the mechanisms that govern the level of IRF-1 in cells, we isolated the IRF-1 gene and characterized the structure of its intronic and exonic domains and of its regulatory promoter region. A human placental genomic library was screened with an IRF-1 cDNA probe, and two clones that contained the IRF-1 gene and its 5' regulatory region were obtained. We used these clones to determine the complete nucleotide sequence for the IRF-1 gene, finding that the IRF-1 gene spanned 7.72 kb of DNA and included 10 exons and 9 introns. When the deduced amino acid sequences were compared among different species, the most conserved exons were exons 2, 3, and 4, in which the putative DNA binding domain for the IRF-1 protein is located.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Sims
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Romine
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaufmann
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Deisseroth
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000032:analysis; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005091:Exons; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; D007372:Interferons / Q000235:genetics; D007438:Introns; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010920:Placenta; D051381:Rats; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C494257:IRF1 protein, human; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; C494258:Irf1 protein, mouse; C494259:Irf1 protein, rat; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D004247:DNA; D007372:Interferons