An erythrocyte-specific DNA-binding factor recognizes a regulatory sequence common to all chicken globin genes. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We have identified a protein present only in erythroid cells that binds to two adjacent sites within an enhancer region of the chicken beta-globin locus. Mutation of the sites, so that binding by the factor can no longer be detected in vitro, leads to a loss of enhancing ability, assayed by transient expression in primary erythrocytes. Binding sites for the erythroid-specific factor (Eryf1) are found within regulatory regions for all chicken globin genes. A strong Eryf1 binding site is also present within the enhancer of at least one human globin gene, and proteins from human erythroid cells (but not HeLa cells) bind to both the chicken and the human sites.

publication date

  • August 1, 1988

Research

keywords

  • DNA
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Erythrocytes
  • Genes, Regulator
  • Globins
  • Transcription Factors

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC281888

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0345184762

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.85.16.5976

PubMed ID

  • 3413070

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 85

issue

  • 16