CREB-binding protein cooperates with transcription factor GATA-1 and is required for erythroid differentiation

AUTOR(ES)

Blobel, Gerd A.

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The transcription factor GATA-1 coordinates multiple events during terminal erythroid cell maturation. GATA-1 participates in the transcription of virtually all erythroid-specific genes, blocks apoptosis of precursor cells, and controls the balance between proliferation and cell cycle arrest. Prior studies suggest that the function of GATA-1 is mediated in part through association with transcriptional cofactors. CREB-binding protein (CBP) and its close relative p300 serve as coactivators for a variety of transcription factors involved in growth control and differentiation. We report here that CBP markedly stimulates GATA-1’s transcriptional activity in transient transfection experiments in nonhematopoietic cells. GATA-1 and CBP also coimmunoprecipitate from nuclear extracts of erythroid cells. Interaction mapping pinpoints contact sites to the zinc finger region of GATA-1 and to the E1A-binding region of CBP. Expression of a conditional form of adenovirus E1A in murine erythroleukemia cells blocks differentiation and expression of endogenous GATA-1 target genes, whereas mutant forms of E1A unable to bind CBP/p300 have no effect. Our findings add GATA-1, and very likely other members of the GATA family, to the growing list of molecules implicated in the complex regulatory network surrounding CBP/p300.

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