Purification of the Human NF-E2 Complex: cDNA Cloning of the Hematopoietic Cell-Specific Subunit and Evidence for an Associated Partner

作者：Paul A. Ney, Nancy C. Andrews, Stephen M. Jane, Brian Safer, Mary E. Purucker, Stanislawa Weremowicz, Cynthia Casson Morton, Sabra C. Goff, Stuart H. Orkin, Arthur W. Nienhuis · 发表于：Molecular and Cellular Biology · 年份：1993 · DOI：10.1128/mcb.13.9.5604-5612.1993 · 被引用次数：44 · 研究领域：Virus-based gene therapy research、RNA Interference and Gene Delivery、RNA regulation and disease

The human globin locus control region-binding protein, NF-E2, was purified by DNA affinity chromatography. Its tissue-specific component, p45 NF-E2, was cloned by use of a low-stringency library screen with murine p45 NF-E2 cDNA (N. C. Andrews, H. Erdjument-Bromage, M. B. Davidson, P. Tempst, and S. H. Orkin, Nature [London] 362:722-728, 1993). The human p45 NF-E2 gene was localized to chromosome 12q13 by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Human p45 NF-E2 and murine p45 NF-E2 are highly homologous basic region-leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins with identical DNA-binding domains. Immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that p45 NF-E2 is associated in vivo with an 18-kDa protein (p18). Because bZIP proteins bind DNA as dimers, we infer that native NF-E2 must be a heterodimer of 45- and 18-kDa subunits. Although AP-1 and CREB copurified with NF-E2, no evidence was found for heterodimer formation between p45 NF-E2 and proteins other than p18. Thus, p18 appears to be the sole specific partner of p45 NF-E2 in erythroid cells. Cloning of human p45 NF-E2 should permit studies of the role of NF-E2 in globin gene regulation and erythroid differentiation.