title: Heterogeneity of ternary complex factors in HeLa cell nuclear extracts.
abstract: Ternary complex factors (TCFs) interact with the serum response factor and DNA containing the c-fos serum response element to form a ternary complex that mediates induction of c-fos. TCF activities were partially purified from HeLa cell nuclear extracts by DNA-cellulose and anion-exchange chromatography followed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Four different protein spots (p60TCF, p62TCF, p62.5TCF, and p64TCF) show renaturable TCF activity. One, p62TCF, was indistinguishable from the Ets protein Elk-1 in gel shift analyses, while none of the HeLa TCFs resembled the other cloned TCFs, SAP-1a and SAP-1b. In two-dimensional gel analysis, Elk-1, SAP-1a, and SAP-1b displayed different pI and M(r) values and in vitro synthesized Elk-1 comigrated with the p62TCF spot. Both reacted with Elk-1 specific antisera, as did the major proportion of TCF activity present in HeLa crude extracts. We conclude that p62TCF is composed of Elk-1, whereas the identities of the other identified TCFs (p60TCF, p62.5TCF, and p64TCF) are still unknown.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Molecular Biology, Hannover Medical School, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pingoud
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zinck
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Hipskind
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Janknecht
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nordheim
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D050807:ets-Domain Protein Elk-1
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C494112:ELK1 protein, human; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D015682:Retroviridae Proteins, Oncogenic; D014157:Transcription Factors; D050807:ets-Domain Protein Elk-1; C072545:p62TCF protein, human