E-proteins are essential class I bHLH transcription factors that play a role in lymphocyte development. In catfish lymphocytes the predominant E-proteins expressed are CFEB (a homologue of HEB) and E2A1, which both strongly drive transcription. In this study the role of homodimerization versus heterodimerization in the function of these catfish E-proteins was addressed through the use of expression constructs encoding forced dimers. Constructs expressing homo- and heterodimers were transfected into catfish B cells and shown to drive transcription from the catfish IGH enhancer. Expression from an artificial promoter containing a trimer of μE5 motifs clearly demonstrated that the homodimer of E2A1 drove transcription more strongly (by a factor of 10-25) than the CFEB homodimer in catfish B and T cells, while the heterodimer showed intermediate levels of transcriptional activation. Both CFEB1 and E2A1 proteins dimerized in vitro, and the heterodimer CFEB1-E2A1 was shown to bind the canonical μE5 motif. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Hikima, J. ichi, Lennard Richard, M. L., Wilson, M. R., Miller, N. W., & Warr, G. W. (2008). Function of E-protein dimers expressed in catfish lymphocytes. Molecular Immunology, 45(4), 1165–1170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2007.08.001
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