title: The sea urchin erg homolog defines a highly conserved erg-specific domain.
abstract: A genomic clone, isolated from a phage library prepared from the DNA of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus, was shown by sequence analysis to be a homolog of the ets family genes, ERG and Fli-1. It contains an open reading frame of which the coding region begins at a consensus 3' splice site and extends for 173 amino acid residues. The first 84 amino acids are homologous with all members of the ets gene family, while the remainder of the sequence is only homologous with the human ERG and murine Fli-1 genes. This latter region, designated R, represents a highly conserved erg-specific domain.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Z Q
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Papas
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lautenberger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1; D006801:Humans; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic / Q000235:genetics*; D012617:Sea Urchins; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000071230:Transcriptional Regulator ERG
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497325:EGR1 protein, human; C072312:ERG protein, human; D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D050783:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000071230:Transcriptional Regulator ERG; D004247:DNA