The mouse c-rel protein has an N-terminal regulatory domain and a C-terminal transcriptional transactivation domain.
We have shown that the murine c-rel protein can act as a transcriptional transactivator in both yeast and mammalian cells. Fusion proteins generated by linking rel sequences to the DNA-binding domain of the yeast transcriptional activator GAL4 activate transcription from a reporter gene linked in cis to a GAL4 binding site. The full-length mouse c-rel protein (588 amino acids long) is a poor transactivator; however, the C-terminal portion of the protein between amino acid residues 403 to 568 is a potent transcriptional transactivator. Deletion of the N-terminal half of the c-rel protein augments its transactivation function. We propose that c-rel protein has an N-terminal regulatory domain and a C-terminal transactivation domain which together modulate its function as a transcriptional transactivator.
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Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, Salk Institute, San Diego, California 92138.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016328:NF-kappa B; D010957:Plasmids; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D020569:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-rel; D011519:Proto-Oncogenes; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D016328:NF-kappa B; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D020569:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-rel; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors