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Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 1999, p. 5134-5142, Vol. 19, No. 7
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Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Trimeric Association of Hox and TALE Homeodomain
Proteins Mediates Hoxb2 Hindbrain Enhancer
Activity
Yakop
Jacobs,
Catherine A.
Schnabel, and
Michael L.
Cleary*
Department of Pathology, Stanford University
Medical Center, Stanford, California 94305
Received 12 January 1999/Returned for modification 1 March
1999/Accepted 6 April 1999
Pbx/exd proteins modulate the DNA binding affinities and
specificities of Hox proteins and contribute to the execution of Hox-dependent developmental programs in arthropods and vertebrates. Pbx
proteins also stably heterodimerize and bind DNA with Meis and
Pknox1-Prep1, additional members of the TALE (three-amino-acid loop
extension) superclass of homeodomain proteins that function on common
genetic pathways with a subset of Hox proteins. In this study, we
demonstrated that Pbx and Meis bind DNA as heterotrimeric complexes
with Hoxb1 on a genetically defined Hoxb2 enhancer, r4,
that mediates the cross-regulatory transcriptional effects of Hoxb1 in
vivo. The DNA binding specificity of the heterotrimeric complex for r4
is mediated by a Pbx-Hox site in conjunction with a distal Meis site,
which we showed to be required for ternary complex formation and
Meis-enhanced transcription. Formation of heterotrimeric complexes in
which all three homeodomains bind their cognate DNA sites is
topologically facilitated by the ability of Pbx and Meis to interact
through their amino termini and bind DNA without stringent half-site
orientation and spacing requirements. Furthermore, Meis site mutation
in the Hoxb2 enhancer phenocopies Pbx-Hox site mutation to
abrogate enhancer-directed expression of a reporter transgene in the
murine embryonic hindbrain, demonstrating that DNA binding by all three
proteins is required for trimer function in vivo. Our data provide in
vitro and in vivo evidence for the combinatorial regulation of Hox and
TALE protein functions that are mediated, in part, by their
interdependent DNA binding activities as ternary complexes. As a
consequence, Hoxb1 employs Pbx and Meis-related proteins, as a pair of
essential cofactors in a higher-order molecular complex, to mediate its
transcriptional effects on an endogenous Hox response element.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305. Phone: (650) 723-5471. Fax: (650) 498-6222. E-mail:
michael.cleary{at}stanford.edu.
Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 1999, p. 5134-5142, Vol. 19, No. 7
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