title: Functional studies of the BTB domain in the Drosophila GAGA and Mod(mdg4) proteins.
abstract: The BTB/POZ (BTB) domain is an approximately 120 residue sequence that is conserved at the N-terminus of many proteins in both vertebrates and invertebrates. We found that the protein encoded by a lethal allele of the Drosophila modifier of mdg4 [mod(mdg4)] gene has two mutated residues in its BTB domain. The identities of the residues at the positions of these mutations are highly conserved in the BTB domain family of proteins, and when the corresponding mutations were engineered into the BTB domain-containing GAGA protein, the activity of GAGA as a transcription activator in a transient transfection assay was severely reduced. The functional equivalence of the BTB domains was established by showing that the BTB domain of the mod(mdg4) protein can effectively substitute for that of GAGA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Butte
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Dernburg
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Frasch
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Kornberg
mesh_terms: D021581:Active Transport, Cell Nucleus; D000483:Alleles; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D019281:Dimerization; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics*; D017344:Genes, Insect / Q000235:genetics; D005804:Genes, Lethal / Q000235:genetics; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015533:Transcriptional Activation; D014162:Transfection
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C063460:Trl protein, Drosophila; C101384:mod(mdg4) protein, Drosophila