title: Autonomously binding protein detected on ets box of c-fos serum response element in proliferating cells.
abstract: The serum response element (SRE) in the c-fos promoter contains an ets box whose integrity is required for full activation of this proto-oncogene by nerve growth factor (NGF) in PC12 rat pheochromocytoma cells. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) detect a protein in nuclear extracts that binds to the wild-type SRE, but not to an SRE containing a mutated ets box. Competition studies using unlabeled probes, and supershift experiments using antibodies and in vitro translated core serum response factor (SRF) indicate that the protein in question is not YY1, SAP-1, nor Elk-1 and that it does not exhibit ternary complex factor (TCF) activity, so that it may correspond to an autonomously binding Ets family protein. The complete disappearance of this "Ets-like autonomous binding factor" upon terminal differentiation of both L6alpha2 myoblastic and PC12 pheochromocytoma cells points to a possible role in the proliferation/differentiation process.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie des Tumeurs Humaines, CNRS URA 1156, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masutani
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Magnaghi-Jaulin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Groisman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ait-Si-Ali
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Robin
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Pritchard
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harel-Bellan
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002455:Cell Division; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015536:Down-Regulation; D051379:Mice; D020932:Nerve Growth Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D016716:PC12 Cells; D011485:Protein Binding; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D020218:Response Elements; D026362:Serum Response Factor; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; D026362:Serum Response Factor; D020932:Nerve Growth Factor