title: SEL-8, a nuclear protein required for LIN-12 and GLP-1 signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans.
abstract: LIN-12 and GLP-1 are members of the LIN-12/Notch family of receptors that mediate cell-cell interactions during development. The sel-8 gene had been identified previously in a screen for suppressors of a mutation that constitutively activates LIN-12. Here, we report that sel-8 is essential for lin-12- and glp-1-mediated signaling, and that SEL-8 is a glutamine-rich nuclear protein. We postulate that SEL-8 serves as a transcriptional coactivator or as an assembly factor for transcription complexes that contain the LIN-12 or GLP-1 intracellular domains.
authors.affiliation: Integrated Program of Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Doyle
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Greenwald
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051880:Receptors, Notch; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013489:Suppression, Genetic; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C060620:Glp-1 protein, C elegans; D015801:Helminth Proteins; C082460:Lin-12 protein, C elegans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D051880:Receptors, Notch; C409224:SEL-8 protein, C elegans; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors