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The transactivation of genes through the cAMP-regulated enhancer (CRE) is proposed to occur by the binding and phosphorylation of the transcription factor CREB (CRE-binding protein). Originally believed to be a single protein, more than 10 different CREB proteins have been cloned. The contributions of each of these factors to gene regulation have yet to be determined unambiguously. We have isolated a CREB cDNA that contains a mutation of a single amino acid in the DNA-binding domain. In gel shift assays, this mutant, designated KCREB, is unable to bind to the somatostatin (SS) CRE. In addition, KCREB acts as a dominant repressor of the wild-type factor, blocking the ability of wild-type CREB to bind to the CRE when present as a KCREB:CREB heterodimer. The KCREB mutant also acts as a dominant repressor in vivo, completely blocking the ability of wild-type CREB to mediate induction by protein kinase-A of a SS CRE reporter gene in F9 teratocarcinoma cells. We have used this mutant to analyze the participation of CREB in the induction of the SS promoter in CA-77 cells, a medullary thyroid carcinoma cell line that produces high levels of SS. Although KCREB can block a portion of the cAMP induction of the SS promoter in CA-77 cells, approximately 45% of the induction remains insensitive to the mutant. These data support the paradigm that CREB is involved in the cAMP induction of SS in vivo. Furthermore, the inability of KCREB to completely block cAMP-mediated SS expression in CA-77 cells suggests that additional factors may contribute to the cAMP regulation of CRE function.
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PMID:A dominant repressor of cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-regulated enhancer-binding protein activity inhibits the cAMP-mediated induction of the somatostatin promoter in vivo. 135 57

c-Jun, a major component of the inducible transcription factor AP-1, is a phosphoprotein. In nonstimulated fibroblasts and epithelial cells, c-Jun is phosphorylated on a cluster of two to three sites abutting its DNA-binding domain. Phosphorylation of these sites inhibits DNA binding, and their dephosphorylation correlates with increased AP-1 activity. We show that two of these sites, Thr-231 and Ser-249, are phosphorylated by casein kinase II (CKII). Substitution of the third site, Ser-243, by Phe interferes with phosphorylation of the inhibitory sites in vivo and by purified CKII in vitro. Microinjection into living cells of synthetic peptides that are specific competitive substrates or inhibitors of CKII results in induction of AP-1 activity and c-Jun expression. Microinjection of CKII suppresses induction of AP-1 by either phorbol ester or an inhibitory peptide. These results suggest that one of the roles of CKII, a major nuclear protein kinase with no known functions, is to attenuate AP-1 activity through phosphorylation of c-Jun.
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PMID:Casein kinase II is a negative regulator of c-Jun DNA binding and AP-1 activity. 142 36

Isolated transcription complexes contain a protein kinase that phosphorylates the heptapeptide repeats of the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) large subunit in an apparently promoter-dependent manner. We now show that the essential features of this reaction can be reproduced in a reconstituted system containing three macromolecular components: a fusion protein consisting of the CTD of RNAP II fused to a heterologous DNA-binding domain, an activating DNA fragment containing the recognition sequence for the fusion protein, and a protein kinase that binds nonspecifically to DNA. This kinase closely resembles a previously known DNA-dependent protein kinase. Evidently, the association of the CTD with DNA provides a key signal for phosphorylation. There appears to be no absolute requirement for specific contacts with other DNA-bound transcription factors.
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PMID:DNA binding provides a signal for phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II heptapeptide repeats. 154 41

IFN play a central role in the activation of macrophages by inducing the expression of several proteins which, in turn, result in increased functional capabilities. Homologous interferon responsive sequences have been found in many IFN-inducible genes, and the gene for a protein that binds these sequences (interferon consensus sequence binding protein, ICSBP) has recently been cloned. In this study, the regulation of ICSBP mRNA induction by IFN-gamma was characterized in murine thioglycolate-elicited peritoneal macrophages. Northern blot analysis revealed two ICSBP mRNA species from these cells. Steady-state levels of both of these species were elevated by IFN-gamma at doses consistent with many IFN-gamma-induced macrophage functional responses. ICSBP mRNA levels increased within 1 h of IFN-gamma treatment, peaked between 4 and 6 h, and subsequently declined to approach baseline levels by approximately 24 h. IFN-alpha, at a concentration shown previously to modulate macrophage surface markers and functions, had no effect on ICSBP message levels alone, but antagonized the IFN-gamma-induction of ICSBP mRNA. IFN-gamma-induction of ICSBP mRNA is resistant to cycloheximide but sensitive to protein kinase inhibitors (H7, H8, HA-1004, staurosporine) at doses that suggest that protein kinase C is a likely target. ICSBP mRNA induction is also inhibited by dexamethasone, a synthetic glucocorticoid, well known as an anti-inflammatory drug capable of influencing gene expression in macrophages. The characterization of ICSBP mRNA regulation should help identify functions for this putative IFN trans-acting factor in macrophage activation.
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PMID:Modulation of interferon consensus sequence binding protein mRNA in murine peritoneal macrophages. Induction by IFN-gamma and down-regulation by IFN-alpha, dexamethasone, and protein kinase inhibitors. 173 Aug 73

HMG 14 and protamine can be used to enhance intermolecular ligation of low concentrations of linear DNA. Adding HMG 14 (50 moles per mole DNA) caused 50% of blunt-ended DNA to form predominantly dimers, and all cohesive-ended DNA to form multimers (greater than 6-mer) in response to T4 ligase. Protamine was maximally effective at 40:1, producing mostly dimers and trimers. Adding higher concentrations of HMG 14 did not affect the ligation pattern of cohesive-ended DNA, while higher concentrations of protamine inhibit the formation of multimers. Phosphorylation of HMG 14 at Ser 20 by Ca(++)-phospholipid dependent protein kinase abolished the ability of HMG 14 to stimulate intermolecular ligation, but did not substantially interfere with intramolecular ligation, or the binding of HMG 14 to linear or circular DNA as assessed by gel mobility. Thus Ser 20, which is located in the amino terminal DNA-binding domain of HMG 14, appears to modulate DNA-DNA interactions.
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PMID:HMG 14 and protamine enhance ligation of linear DNA to form linear multimers: phosphorylation of HMG 14 at Ser 20 specifically inhibits intermolecular DNA ligation. 184 50

The human CCG1 gene complements tsBN462, a temperature-sensitive G1 mutant of the BHK21 cell line. The previously cloned cDNA turned out to be a truncated form of the actual CCG1 cDNA. The newly cloned CCG1 cDNA was 6.0 kb and encoded a protein with a molecular mass of 210 kDa. Using an antibody to a predicted peptide from the CCG1 protein, a protein with a molecular mass of over 200 kDa was identified in human, monkey, and hamster cell lines. In the newly defined C-terminal region, an acidic domain was found. It contained four consensus target sequences for casein kinase II and was phosphorylated by this enzyme in vitro. However, this C-terminal region was not required to complement tsBN462 mutation since the region encoding the C-terminal part was frequently missing in complemented clones derived by DNA-mediated gene transfer. CCG1 contains a sequence similar to the putative DNA-binding domain of HMG1 in addition to the previously detected amino acid sequences common in nuclear proteins, such as a proline cluster and a nuclear translocation signal. Consistent with these predictions, CCG1 was present in nuclei, possessed DNA-binding activity, and was eluted with similar concentrations of salt, 0.3 to 0.4 M NaCl either from isolated nuclei or from a DNA-cellulose column.
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PMID:The human CCG1 gene, essential for progression of the G1 phase, encodes a 210-kilodalton nuclear DNA-binding protein. 203 34

The c-Myb nuclear oncoprotein is phosphorylated in vitro and in vivo at an N-terminal site near its DNA-binding domain by casein kinase II (CK-II) or a CK-II-like activity. This in vitro phosphorylation reversibly inhibits the sequence-specific binding of c-Myb to DNA. The site of this phosphorylation is deleted in nearly all oncogenically activated Myb proteins, resulting in DNA-binding that is independent of CK-II. Because CK-II activity is modulated by growth factors, loss of the site could uncouple c-Myb from its normal physiological regulator.
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PMID:Myb DNA binding inhibited by phosphorylation at a site deleted during oncogenic activation. 215 64

Cyclic AMP-regulated gene expression is mediated by specific phosphoproteins (CREBs) which bind to cAMP-responsive elements of gene promoters. By analyzing the transactivation activities and phosphorylations in vivo of deletion and point mutated chimeric fusion proteins of the placental CREB-327, in which the DNA-binding domain is replaced by the heterologous binding-domain of the yeast transcription factor GAL4, we localized the cAMP-responsive and phosphorylated domain to a minimal-essential sequence module of 46 amino acids (residues 92-137). This serine-rich, multiply-phosphorylated sequence consists of at least three interdependent subdomains required for transcriptional activation. Although phosphorylation of serine-119 by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase A is necessary for transcriptional activation, such activation requires both a phosphorylated heptadecapeptide domain located ten residues amino terminal to the serine-119 and an eleven-residue domain carboxyl terminal to the serine-119. Deletion of these two domains does not impair phosphorylation of serine-119. Further, deletion of the carboxyl-terminal domain does not alter phosphorylation of the heptadecapeptide domain. We propose that akin to the phosphorylation-dependent activation of enzymes, the transcriptional transactivation functions of CREB-327 involve a phosphorylation-dependent allosteric conformational mechanism.
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PMID:Cyclic-AMP-responsive transcriptional activation of CREB-327 involves interdependent phosphorylated subdomains. 861 93

Phenotypically distinct islet tumor cell lines may recapitulate certain of the developmental pathways of normal islet cell differentiation by expressing a combinatorial set of positively and negatively acting DNA-binding proteins to allow for the programmed expression of genes encoding polypeptide hormones. The structure of one of these DNA-binding proteins, a cyclic AMP-responsive protein (CREB) that binds specific DNA regulatory elements in the somatostatin gene, has been deduced from the sequence of a cloned cDNA. The CREB protein contains a DNA-binding domain separate from a cAMP-dependent protein kinase A activation domain. Further characterizations of the genes encoding the DNA-binding proteins should help to elucidate the cellular processes involved in islet cell differentiation and the genesis of tumors.
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PMID:Factors that determine cell-specific gene expression in pancreatic endocrine tumor cells. 255 19

Comparison of the recently determined amino acid sequences of the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (RII) from bovine cardiac muscle and the Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein (CAP) shows significant homology. This homology extends over most of the amino-terminal domain in CAP and is particularly good for the region of the beta-roll structure. The RII sequence contains two adjacent and internally homologous regions, both of which have high resemblance to the cAMP-binding domain in CAP. This suggests that the protein kinase regulatory subunit contains two cAMP-binding domains in the carboxyl-terminal region, each having a beta-roll structure similar to that in CAP. The cAMP molecule is expected to bind to the RII within a pocket formed by residues from the beta-roll, as is the case with CAP. One cAMP molecule would interact with residues from about 163 to 220, and the other cAMP would interact with amino acids in the stretch 285-350 of the RII protein kinase sequence. As the carboxyl-terminal domain of CAP shows homologies to the DNA-binding domains of other regulatory proteins, the protein appears to be of modular construction: a DNA-binding domain joined to a cAMP-binding domain.
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PMID:The cAMP-binding domains of the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and the catabolite gene activator protein are homologous. 629 45


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