Transcriptional Repression Mediated by the WT1 Wilms Tumor Gene Product
- 27 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 253 (5027), 1550-1553
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1654597
Abstract
The wt1 gene, a putative tumor suppressor gene located at the Wilms tumor (WT) locus on chromosome 11p13, encodes a zinc finger-containing protein that binds to the same DNA sequence as EGR-1, a mitogen-inducible immediate-early gene product that activates transcription. The transcriptional regulatory potential of WT1 has not been demonstrated. In transient transfection assays, the WT1 protein functioned as a repressor of transcription when bound to the EGR-1 site. The repression function was mapped to the glutamine- and proline-rich NH2-terminus of WT1; fusion of this domain to the zinc finger region of EGR-1 converted EGR-1 into a transcriptional repressor.Keywords
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