PMID- 8497254 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19930623 LR - 20220224 IS - 0270-7306 (Print) IS - 1098-5549 (Electronic) IS - 0270-7306 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 6 DP - 1993 Jun TI - Cloning and characterization of subunits of the T-cell receptor and murine leukemia virus enhancer core-binding factor. PG - 3324-39 AB - Moloney murine leukemia virus causes thymic leukemias when injected into newborn mice. A major determinant of the thymic disease specificity of Moloney virus genetically maps to the conserved viral core motif in the Moloney virus enhancer. Point mutations introduced into the core site significantly shifted the disease specificity of the Moloney virus from thymic leukemia to erythroid leukemia (N.A. Speck, B. Renjifo, E. Golemis, T.N. Fredrickson, J.W. Hartley, and N. Hopkins, Genes Dev. 4:233-242, 1990). We previously reported the purification of core-binding factors (CBF) from calf thymus nuclei (S. Wang and N.A. Speck, Mol. Cell. Biol. 12:89-102, 1992). CBF binds to core sites in murine leukemia virus and T-cell receptor enhancers. Affinity-purified CBF contains multiple polypeptides. In this study, we sequenced five tryptic peptides from two of the bovine CBF proteins and isolated three cDNA clones from a mouse thymus cDNA library encoding three of the tryptic peptides from the bovine proteins. The cDNA clones, which we call CBF beta p22.0, CBF beta p21.5, and CBF beta p17.6, encode three highly related but distinct proteins with deduced molecular sizes of 22.0, 21.5, and 17.6 kDa that appear to be translated from multiply spliced mRNAs transcribed from the same gene. CBF beta p22.0, CBF beta p21.5, and CBF beta p17.6 do not by themselves bind the core site. However, CBF beta p22.0 and CBF beta p21.5 form a complex with DNA-binding CBF alpha subunits and as a result decrease the rate of dissociation of the CBF protein-DNA complex. Association of the CBF beta subunits does not extend the phosphate contacts in the binding site. We propose that CBF beta is a non-DNA-binding subunit of CBF and does not contact DNA directly. FAU - Wang, S AU - Wang S AD - Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755. FAU - Wang, Q AU - Wang Q FAU - Crute, B E AU - Crute BE FAU - Melnikova, I N AU - Melnikova IN FAU - Keller, S R AU - Keller SR FAU - Speck, N A AU - Speck NA LA - eng SI - GENBANK/L03279 SI - GENBANK/L03305 SI - GENBANK/L03306 GR - R01 CA058343/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA23018/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - CA51065-01A1/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Mol Cell Biol JT - Molecular and cellular biology JID - 8109087 RN - 0 (Core Binding Factors) RN - 0 (DNA-Binding Proteins) RN - 0 (Macromolecular Substances) RN - 0 (Neoplasm Proteins) RN - 0 (Oligodeoxyribonucleotides) RN - 0 (Peptide Fragments) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell) RN - 0 (Transcription Factors) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) SB - IM MH - Alternative Splicing MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Base Sequence MH - Cattle MH - Cell Nucleus/physiology MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Cloning, Molecular/methods MH - Core Binding Factors MH - DNA/genetics/isolation & purification MH - DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - *Enhancer Elements, Genetic MH - Macromolecular Substances MH - Mice MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Moloney murine leukemia virus/*genetics MH - *Neoplasm Proteins MH - Oligodeoxyribonucleotides MH - Peptide Fragments/isolation & purification MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Protein Biosynthesis MH - RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism MH - Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*genetics/metabolism MH - T-Lymphocytes/*immunology MH - Thymus Gland/immunology MH - Transcription Factors/*genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Transcription, Genetic PMC - PMC359789 EDAT- 1993/06/01 00:00 MHDA- 1993/06/01 00:01 PMCR- 1993/06/01 CRDT- 1993/06/01 00:00 PHST- 1993/06/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1993/06/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1993/06/01 00:00 [entrez] PHST- 1993/06/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1128/mcb.13.6.3324-3339.1993 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Cell Biol. 1993 Jun;13(6):3324-39. doi: 10.1128/mcb.13.6.3324-3339.1993.