title: A broad bean cDNA clone encoding a DNA-binding protein resembling mammalian CREB in its sequence specificity and DNA methylation sensitivity.
abstract: A plant cDNA has been cloned that encodes a DNA-binding protein displaying a nucleotide (nt) sequence specificity similar to that of the mammalian cyclic AMP response element-binding protein/activating transcription factor (CREB/ATF) family of mammalian proteins. This cDNA was cloned in Escherichia coli from a broad bean (Vicia faba) cDNA expression library using a recognition site probe. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequence of the recombinant cDNA-encoded protein, called VBP1, has a basic region adjacent to a leucine zipper motif, of the type seen in the DNA-binding domains of many eukaryotic DNA-binding proteins, including mammalian CREB/ATF. Although this aa sequence has homology to regions of deduced aa sequences of other cloned plant cDNAs, it is distinct in both the derived primary structure and in its nt sequence specificity. VBP1, as well as proteins in nuclear extracts of V. faba with similar nt sequence specificity, have their binding to DNA suppressed more than tenfold by cytosine methylation at the CREB/ATF consensus sequence.
authors.affiliation: Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA 70179.
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Cary
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016384:Consensus Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D016350:Leucine Zippers / Q000235:genetics*; D008745:Methylation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D010946:Plants, Medicinal
chemical_list: D050976:Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; C075911:Vicia faba DNA-binding protein 1; D004247:DNA