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- Title
FOG-1 recruits the NuRD repressor complex to mediate transcriptional repression by GATA-1.
- Authors
Hong, Wei; Nakazawa, Minako; Chen, Ying-Yu; Kori, Rajashree; Vakoc, Christopher R; Rakowski, Carrie; Blobel, Gerd A
- Abstract
Transcription factor GATA-1 and its cofactor FOG-1 coordinate erythroid cell maturation by activating erythroid-specific genes and repressing genes associated with the undifferentiated state. Here we show that FOG-1 binds to the NuRD corepressor complex in vitro and in vivo. The interaction is mediated by a small conserved domain at the extreme N-terminus of FOG-1 that is necessary and sufficient for NuRD binding. This domain defines a novel repression module found in diverse transcriptional repressors. NuRD is present at GATA-1/FOG-1-repressed genes in erythroid cells in vivo. Point mutations near the N-terminus of FOG-1 that abrogate NuRD binding block gene repression by FOG-1. Finally, the ability of GATA-1 to repress transcription was impaired in erythroid cells expressing mutant forms of FOG-1 that are defective for NuRD binding. Together, these studies show that FOG-1 and likely other FOG-like proteins are corepressors that link GATA factors to histone deacetylation and nucleosome remodeling.
- Publication
The EMBO journal, 2005, Vol 24, Issue 13, p2367
- ISSN
0261-4189
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.emboj.7600703