title: CTF5--a new transcriptional activator of the NFI/CTF family.
abstract: NFI/CTF is a family of polypeptides involved in stimulating the initiation of adenovirus DNA replication and the activation of transcription driven by RNA polymerase II. Several naturally occurring NFI/CTF variants display distinctive transactivation activities in vivo. To define more precisely the role of the NFI/CTF family in regulating gene expression, we cloned the splice variant CTF5, analyzed transcriptional activation patterns in a yeast transcription assay, and compared it with other CTF proteins. CTF5, which lacks exons 9 and 10 including a CTD-like motif essential for transcriptional activation by full-length CTF1, enhances transcription to a greater extent than CTF1. In addition, CTF5 is even more active than CTF7, which lacks exons 7-9. These findings indicate that CTF proteins formed by differential splicing display a much broader range of transcriptional activities as observed previously.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wenzelides
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Altmann
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wendler
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Winnacker
mesh_terms: D017398:Alternative Splicing; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051839:NFI Transcription Factors; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
chemical_list: D022762:CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins; C077305:CTF-1 transcription factor; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D051839:NFI Transcription Factors; D014157:Transcription Factors