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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 293, Issue 4, Pages 1242-1247Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00363-7
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TIS11; zinc finger protein; nuclear import signal; nuclear export signal; leptomycin B
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TIS11, a member of the CCCH zinc finger protein family, functions as a positive transcriptional regulator. TIS11 was localized in both the cytoplasm and nucleus when transiently expressed in COS-7 cells. Upon treatment with leptomycin B, a specific inhibitor of the nuclear export receptor CRM1, a marked nuclear accumulation of TIS11 was observed, indicating that TIS11 shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. By deletion studies using a green fluorescent protein fusion system, we have mapped a functional nuclear localization signal (NLS) to a region containing two tandem repeats of the zinc finger motif of TIS11. A site-directed mutagenesis analysis of TIS11 NLS has revealed the critical importance of two arginine residues (Arg127 and Arg131 in the rat TIS11). Furthermore, we demonstrated that the N-terminal Leu-rich region of TIS11 serves as an LMB-sensitive nuclear export signal (NES), indicating that TIS11 follows a CRM1-mediated export pathway. These results suggest that TIS11 is subject to constant nucleocytoplasmic shuttling due to its NLS and NES. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA), All rights reserved.
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