Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 98, Issue 4, Pages 1519-1524Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.041597698
Keywords
retinoblastoma protein pathway
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The E2F transcription factors play a key role in the regulation of cellular proliferation and terminal differentiation. E2F6 is the most recently identified and the least well understood member of the E2F family. It is only distantly related to the other E2Fs and lacks the sequences responsible for both transactivation and binding to the retinoblastoma protein, Consistent with this finding, E2F6 can behave as a dominant negative inhibitor of the other E2F family members. In this study, we continue to investigate the possible role(s) of E2F6 in vivo, We report the isolation of RYBP, a recently identified member of the mammalian polycomb complex, as an E2F6-interacting protein, Mapping studies indicate that RYBP binds within the known repression domain of E2F6, Moreover, we demonstrate that endogenous E2F6 and polycomb group proteins, including RYBP, Ring1, MEL-18, mph1, and the oncoprotein Bmi1, associate with one another. These findings suggest that the biological properties of E2F6 are mediated through its ability to recruit the polycomb transcriptional repressor complex.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available