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Functional domain analysis of glass, a zinc-finger-containing transcription factor in Drosophila.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tjian, Robert |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Abstract | The glass gene is required for proper photo-receptor differentiation during development of the Drosophila eye glass codes for a DNA-binding protein containing five zinc fingers that we show is a transcriptional activator. A comparison of the sequences of the glass genes from two species of Drosophila and a detailed functional domain analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster glass gene reveal that both the DNA-binding domain and the transcriptional-activation domain are highly conserved between the two species. Analysis of the DNA-binding domain of glass indicates that the three carboxyl-terminal zinc fingers alone are necessary and sufficient for DNA binding. We also show that a deletion mutant of glass containing only the DNA-binding domain can behave in a dominant-negative manner both in vivo and in a cell culture assay that measures transcriptional activation. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pnas.org/content/92/14/6557.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 7604032v1 |
| Volume Number | 92 |
| Issue Number | 14 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Carboxyl Group Cell Culture Techniques Deletion Mutation Drosophila melanogaster TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR Transcription Coactivator Transcription, Genetic Transcriptional Activation Zinc Fingers dna binding |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |