| Literature DB >> 7501458 |
C Cooper1, A Henderson, S Artandi, N Avitahl, K Calame.
Abstract
Analysis of cDNA and genomic clones shows that the murine Ig/EBP (C/EBP gamma) gene encodes a small protein with a predicted molecular weight of 16.4 kDa which contains C/EBP family basic and leucine zipper domains but lacks the transcriptional activation domains present in C/EBP (C/EBP alpha) and NF-IL6 (C/EBP beta). In transfection assays Ig/EBP is neither an activator nor a repressor of transcription; however, Ig/EBP inhibits the transcriptional ability of NF-IL6 (C/EBP beta) and C/EBP (C/EBP alpha), acting as a transdominant negative regulator. Thus Ig/EBP resembles LIP, another negative regulator of the C/EBP family, in both structure and transcriptional activity. Of the three known C/EBP family inhibitors, Ig/EBP, LIP and CHOP-10, only Ig/EBP is ubiquitously expressed. Therefore, Ig/EBP may act as a general buffer for C/EBP activators in many cell types.Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 7501458 PMCID: PMC307392 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.21.4371
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971