title: RelB, a new Rel family transcription activator that can interact with p50-NF-kappa B.
abstract: We have identified a serum-inducible gene, relB, which encodes a protein of 558 amino acids containing a region with high similarity to c-Rel and other members of the Rel family. Transcriptional activation analysis of GAL4-RelB fusion proteins in yeast cells reveals that RelB contains in its C-terminal 180 amino acids a transcriptional activation domain. The N-terminal part including the region of similarity with the Rel family shows no detectable transcriptional activity. RelB does not bind with high affinity to NF-kappa B sites, but heterodimers between RelB and p50-NF-kappa B do bind to different NF-kappa B-binding sites with a similar affinity to that shown by p50-NF-kappa B homodimers. However, RelB/p50-NF-kappa B heterodimers, in contrast to p50-NF-kappa B homodimers, transactivate transcription of a promoter containing a kappa B-binding site.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-4000.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Ryseck
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bull
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takamiya
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bours
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Siebenlist
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dobrzanski
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bravo
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism*; D020572:Oncogene Proteins v-rel; D009857:Oncogenes / Q000235:genetics*; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D001616:beta-Galactosidase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C052130:GAL4 protein, S cerevisiae; D016328:NF-kappa B; D020572:Oncogene Proteins v-rel; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D001616:beta-Galactosidase