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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 23, Pages 10379-10390Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.23.10379-10390.2005
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Notch is a transmembrane receptor that determines cell fates and pattern formation in all animal species. After ligand binding, proteolytic cleavage steps occur and the intracellular part of Notch translocates to the nucleus, where it targets the DNA-binding protein RBP-J kappa/CBF1. In the absence of Notch, RBP-J kappa represses Notch target genes through the recruitment of a corepressor complex. We and others have identified SHARP as a component of this complex. Here, we functionally demonstrate that the SHARP repression domain is necessary and sufficient to repress transcription and that the absence of this domain causes a dominant negative Notch-like phenotype. We identify the CtIP and CtBP corepressors as novel components of the human RBP-J kappa/SHARP-corepressor complex and show that CUP binds directly to the SHARP repression domain. Functionally, CUP and CtBP augment SHARP-mediated repression. Transcriptional repression of the Notch target gene Hey1 is abolished in CtBP-deficient cells or after the functional knockout of CtBP. Furthermore, the endogenous Hey1 promoter is derepressed in CtBP-deficient cells. We propose that a corepressor complex containing CtIP/CtBP facilitates RBP-J kappa/SHARP-mediated repression of Notch target genes.
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