| Literature DB >> 17303076 |
Sung-Hak Kim1, Jinah Park, Moon-Chang Choi, Hwang-Phill Kim, Jung-Hyun Park, Yeonjoo Jung, Ju-Hee Lee, Do-Youn Oh, Seock-Ah Im, Yung-Jue Bang, Tae-You Kim.
Abstract
DNA methyltransferases (DNMT) 3B is a de novo DNMT that represses transcription independent of DNMT activity. In order to gain a better insight into DNMT3B-mediated transcriptional repression, we performed a yeast two-hybrid analysis using DNMT3B as a bait. Of the various binding candidates, ZHX1, a member of zinc-finger and homeobox protein, was found to interact with DNMT3B in vivo and in vitro. N-terminal PWWP domain of DNMT3B was required for its interaction with homeobox motifs of ZHX1. ZHX1 contains nuclear localization signal at C-terminal homeobox motif, and both ZHX1 and DNMT3B were co-localized in nucleus. Furthermore, we found that ZHX1 enhanced the transcriptional repression mediated by DNMT3B when DNMT3B is directly targeted to DNA. These results showed for the first the direct linkage between DNMT and zinc-fingers homeoboxes protein, leading to enhanced gene silencing by DNMT3B.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17303076 DOI： 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.01.187
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun ISSN： 0006-291X Impact factor: 3.575