title: Murine and human T-lymphocyte GATA-3 factors mediate transcription through a cis-regulatory element within the human T-cell receptor delta gene enhancer.
abstract: A family of transcriptional activators has recently been identified in chickens; these transcriptional activators recognize a common consensus motif (WGATAR) through a conserved C4 zinc finger DNA-binding domain. One of the members of this multigene family, cGATA-3, is most abundantly expressed in the T-lymphocyte cell lineage. Analysis of human and murine GATA-3 factors shows a striking degree of amino acid sequence identity and similar patterns of tissue specificity of expression in these three organisms. The murine and human factors are abundantly expressed in a variety of human and murine T-cell lines and can activate transcription through a tissue-specific GATA-binding site identified within the human T-cell receptor delta gene enhancer. We infer that the murine and human GATA-3 proteins play a central and highly conserved role in vertebrate T-cell-specific transcriptional regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3500.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ting
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Engel
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D002645:Chickens; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D050990:GATA3 Transcription Factor; D015723:Gene Library; D005914:Globins / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D011817:Rabbits; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / Q000235:genetics*; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D016385:TATA Box; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D050990:GATA3 Transcription Factor; C494749:GATA3 protein, human; C494748:Gata3 protein, mouse; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D011948:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D005914:Globins