title: The transcriptional silencer protein NRF: a repressor of NF-kappa B enhancers.
abstract: NF-kappa B/rel proteins are present in most cell types. In concert with other transcriptional factors they regulate a variety of genes which contribute to a wide spectrum of physiological activities like inflammation and apoptosis. An excellent example of this combinatorial regulation takes place in the IFN-beta promoter. In this promoter the fundamental regulatory elements are assembled within less than 100 base pairs including a NF-kappa B/rel enhancer and a negative regulatory element, called NRE. NRE is a member of a new class of transcriptional repressor sequences with a silencing capacity targeted to the NF-kappa B/rel enhancer. NRF is a novel transcriptional factor that binds to NRE. NRF belongs to a major class of transcriptional repressors that interact with specific promoter elements and repress transcription by separable repression domains. Such molecules have been termed active repressors, because they act by inhibitory protein-protein interaction and not simply by steric hindrance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, GBF-Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nourbakhsh
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hauser
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D004742:Enhancer Elements, Genetic; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D016899:Interferon-beta / Q000235:genetics; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D052002:NF-kappa B p50 Subunit; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D051996:Transcription Factor RelA; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D016328:NF-kappa B; D052002:NF-kappa B p50 Subunit; C111027:NKRF protein, human; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D051996:Transcription Factor RelA; D014157:Transcription Factors; D016899:Interferon-beta