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Volume 272, Number 47, Issue of November 21, 1997 pp. 29904-29910
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

High Mobility Group I Proteins Interfere with the Homeodomains Binding to DNA

(Received for publication, April 25, 1997, and in revised form, August 1, 1997)

Paola Arlotta , Alessandra Rustighi , Fiamma Mantovani , Guidalberto Manfioletti , Vincenzo Giancotti , Gianluca Tell § and Giuseppe Damante §

From the Dipartimento di Biochimica, Biofisica e Chimica delle Macromolecole, Università di Trieste, 34100 Trieste, Italy and the § Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy

Homeodomains (HDs) constitute the DNA binding domain of several transcription factors that control cell differentiation and development in a wide variety of organisms. Most HDs recognize sequences that contain a 5'-TAAT-3' core motif. However, the DNA binding specificity of HD-containing proteins does not solely determine their biological effects, and other molecular mechanisms should be responsible for their ultimate functional activity. Interference by other factors in the HD/DNA interaction could be one of the processes by which HD-containing proteins achieve the functional complexity required for their effects on the expression of target genes.

Using gel-retardation assay, we demonstrate that two members of the high mobility group I (HMGI) family of nuclear proteins (HMGI-C and HMGY) can bind to a subset of HD target sequences and inhibit HDs from binding to the same sequences. The inhibition of the HD/DNA interaction occurs while incubating HMGI-C with DNA either before or after the addition of the HD.

The reduced half-life of the HD·DNA complex in the presence of HMGI-C, and the shift observed in the CD spectra recorded upon HMGI-C binding to DNA, strongly suggest that structural modifications of the DNA are responsible for the inhibition of the HD·DNA complex formation. Moreover, by co-transfection experiments we provide evidence that this inhibition can occur also in vivo.

The data reported here would suggest that HMGI proteins may be potential regulators of the function of HD-containing proteins and that they are able to interfere with the access of the HD to their target genes.


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