title: Conserved transactivation domain shared by interferon regulatory factors and Smad morphogens.
abstract: Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) regulate the transcription of both interferon-inducible genes and interferons themselves. Along with the N-terminal, DNA-binding, winged-helix domain, most IRFs contain the C-terminal domains that are shown to be related to the C-terminal domains in the proteins of the Smad family that mediate transcription activation in the transforming growth factor response pathway. Comparison of the IRF-Smad alignment to the known three-dimensional structure of human tumor suppressor Smad4 suggests that a conserved loop, equivalent to Loop 3 in Smad 4, is a determinant of protein-protein interaction in IRFs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Sciences, Axys Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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authors.lastname: Eroshkin
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authors.lastname: Mushegian
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; D007372:Interferons / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D051901:Smad4 Protein; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C494257:IRF1 protein, human; D050856:Interferon Regulatory Factor-1; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C497796:SMAD4 protein, human; D051901:Smad4 Protein; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D007372:Interferons