Site-directed Mutagenesis Study on DNA Binding Regions of the Mouse Homologue of Suppressor of Hairless, RBP-J Kappa

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1994 Aug 11

PMID 8065905

Citations 32

Authors

C N Chung

Y Hamaguchi

T Honjo

M Kawaichi

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Abstract

To map regions important for DNA binding of the mouse homologue of Suppressor of Hairless or RBP-J kappa protein, mutated mouse RBP-J kappa cDNAs were made by insertion of oligonucleotide linkers or base replacement. DNA binding assays using the mutated proteins expressed in COS cells showed that various mutations between 218 Arg and 227 Arg decreased the DNA binding activity drastically. The DNA binding activity was not affected by amino acid replacements within the integrase motif of the RBP-J kappa protein (230His-269His). Replacements between 291Arg and 323Tyr affected the DNA binding activity slightly but reproducibly. These results indicate that the region encompassing 218Arg-227Arg is critical for the DNA binding activity of RBP-J kappa. This region did not show any significant homology to motifs or domains of the previously described DNA binding proteins. Using a truncation mutant protein RBP-J kappa was shown to associate with DNA as a monomer.

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