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Molecular and Cellular Biology, October 2002, p. 7120-7133, Vol. 22, No. 20
0270-7306/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.20.7120-7133.2002
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Repression by Homeoprotein Pitx1 of Virus-Induced Interferon A Promoters Is Mediated by Physical Interaction and trans Repression of IRF3 and IRF7

Laboratoire de Régulation de la Transcription et Maladies Génétiques, CNRS, UPR 2228, UFR Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Université René Descartes, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France,¹ Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada H2W 1R7²

Received 11 December 2001/ Returned for modification 29 January 2002/ Accepted 25 June 2002

Interferon A (IFN-A) genes are differentially expressed after virus induction. The differential expression of individual IFN-A genes is modulated by the specific transcription activators IFN regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) and IRF-7 and the homeoprotein transcription repressor Pitx1. We now show that repression by Pitx1 does not appear to be due to the recruitment of histone deacetylases. On the other hand, Pitx1 inhibits the IRF3 and IRF7 transcriptional activity of the IFN-A11 and IFN-A5 promoters and interacts physically with IRF3 and IRF7. Pitx1 trans-repression activity maps to specific C-terminal domains, and the Pitx1 homeodomain is involved in physical interaction with IRF3 or IRF7. IRF3 is able to bind to the antisilencer region of the IFN-A4 promoter, which overrides the repressive activity of Pitx1. These results indicate that interaction between the Pitx1 homeodomain and IRF3 or IRF7 and the ability of the Pitx1 C-terminal repressor domains to block IFN-A11 and IFN-A5 but not IFN-A4 promoter activities may contribute to our understanding of the complex differential transcriptional activation, repression, and antirepression of the IFN-A genes.

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