title: A novel family of developmentally regulated mammalian transcription factors containing the TEA/ATTS DNA binding domain.
abstract: We describe the molecular cloning of two novel human and murine transcription factors containing the TEA/ATTS DNA binding domain and related to transcriptional enhancer factor-1 (TEF-1). These factors bind to the consensus TEA/ATTS cognate binding site exemplified by the GT-IIC and Sph enhansons of the SV40 enhancer but differ in their ability to bind cooperatively to tandemly repeated sites. The human TEFs are differentially expressed in cultured cell lines and the mouse (m)TEFs are differentially expressed in embryonic and extra-embryonic tissues in early post-implantation embryos. Strikingly, at later stages of embryogenesis, mTEF-3 is specifically expressed in skeletal muscle precursors, whereas mTEF-1 is expressed not only in developing skeletal muscle but also in the myocardium. Together with previous data, these results point to important, partially redundant, roles for these TEF proteins in myogenesis and cardiogenesis. In addition, mTEF-1 is strongly coexpressed with mTEF-4 in mitotic neuroblasts, while accentuated mTEF-4 expression is also observed in the gut and the nephrogenic region of the kidney. These observations suggest additional roles for the TEF proteins in central nervous system development and organogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Collège de France, B.P. 163-67404 Illkirch Cédex, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jacquemin
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Martial
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dollé
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Davidson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001233:Aspergillus nidulans; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004330:Drosophila; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D000091262:TEA Domain Transcription Factors; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009124:Muscle Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D000091262:TEA Domain Transcription Factors; C057182:TEAD1 protein, human; C101205:TEAD2 protein, human; C486309:TEAD4 protein, human; C100498:TEFR1 protein, isoform b, mouse; C486310:Tead2 protein, mouse; C101204:Tead4 protein, mouse; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D004247:DNA