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Mol Cell Biol. 1991 July; 11(7): 3633-3641

Inefficient homooligomerization contributes to the dependence of myogenin on E2A products for efficient DNA binding.

T Chakraborty, T J Brennan, L Li, D Edmondson and E N Olson

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030.

ABSTRACT

Myogenin is a muscle-specific transcription factor that can activate myogenesis; it belongs to a family of transcription factors that share homology within a basic region and an adjacent helix-loop-helix (HLH) motif. Although myogenin alone binds DNA inefficiently, in the presence of the widely expressed HLH proteins E12 and E47 (encoded by the E2A gene), it forms heterooligomers that bind with high affinity to a DNA sequence known as a kappa E-2 site. In contrast, E47 and to a lesser extent E12 are both able to bind the kappa E-2 site relatively efficiently as homooligomers. To define the relative contributions of the basic regions of myogenin and E12 to DNA binding and muscle-specific gene activation, we created chimeras of the two proteins by swapping their basic regions. We showed that myogenin's weak affinity for the kappa E-2 site is attributable to inefficient homooligomerization and that the myogenin basic domain alone can mediate high-affinity DNA binding when placed in E12. Within a heterooligomeric complex, two basic regions were required to form a high-affinity DNA-binding domain. Basic-domain mutants of myogenin or E2A gene products that cannot bind DNA retained the ability to oligomerize and could abolish DNA binding of the wild-type proteins in vitro. These myogenin and E2A mutants also acted as trans-dominant inhibitors of muscle-specific gene activation in vivo. These findings support the notion that muscle-specific gene activation requires oligomerization between myogenin and E2A gene products and that E2A gene products play an important role in myogenesis by enhancing the DNA-binding activity of myogenin, as well as other myogenic HLH proteins.

Mol Cell Biol. 1991 July; 11(7): 3633-3641




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