title: Identification of a protein that recognizes a distal negative regulatory element within the mouse mammary tumor virus long terminal repeat.
abstract: The mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) long terminal repeat contains a distal negative regulatory element (dNRE) that selectively represses activity of the proviral promoter in the absence of steroid hormone receptor-mediated activation. A protein, termed MMTV NRE-binding protein 1 (MNBP-1), that recognizes long terminal repeat sequences between -433 and -418 was identified by gel electrophoresis mobility shift assays and methylation interference footprinting in nuclear extracts of HeLa and Ltk(-) cells. Mutations within the defined binding site affect dNRE-mediated promoter repression in vivo. MNBP-1 has an apparent molecular mass of approximately 100 kDa as determined by gel filtration chromatography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2128, USA.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D007739:L Cells; D008324:Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011533:Proviruses / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D020079:Terminal Repeat Sequences
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C400564:MNBP-1 protein, human