title: Transcriptional repressor ZF5 identifies a new conserved domain in zinc finger proteins.
abstract: We have cloned a cDNA encoding a new murine C2H2 zinc finger protein, ZF5. The 51.3 kD protein contains five GL1-Kruppel type zinc fingers at the C-terminus. At its N-terminus, ZF5 has a 41 amino acid region which was found to be homologous to the N-termini of several other zinc finger proteins. This region defines a new motif within zinc finger proteins which we have named the Zinc finger N-terminal (ZiN) domain. ZF5 binds to two sites in the c-myc promoter and to the -50 bp site of the herpes simplex thymidine kinase promoter. ZF5 is a transcriptional repressor and its repression domain is located N-terminal to the zinc finger domains. A single 4 kb ZF5 mRNA is expressed widely.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Hiroshima University, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Numoto
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Niwa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Merrell
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kamiya
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanagihara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Calame
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013937:Thymidine Kinase / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D016335:Zinc Fingers / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012097:Repressor Proteins; C082969:Zfp161 protein, mouse; D004247:DNA; D013937:Thymidine Kinase