Subnuclear localization of proteins encoded by the oncogene v-myb and its cellular homolog c-myb.

AUTOR(ES)

Klempnauer, K H

RESUMO

The retroviral transforming gene v-myb encodes a 45,000-Mr nuclear transforming protein (p45v-myb). p45v-myb is a truncated and mutated version of a 75,000-Mr protein encoded by the chicken c-myb gene (p75c-myb). Like its viral counterpart, p75c-myb is located in the cell nucleus. As a first step in identifying nuclear targets involved in cellular transformation by v-myb and in c-myb function, we determined the subnuclear locations of p45v-myb and p75c-myb. Approximately 80 to 90% of the total p45v-myb and p75c-myb present in nuclei was released from nuclei at low salt concentrations, exhibited DNA-binding activity, and was attached to nucleoprotein particles when released from the nuclei after digestion with nuclease. A minor portion of approximately 10 to 20% of the total p45v-myb and p75c-myb remained tightly associated with the nuclei even in the presence of 2 M NaCl. These observations suggest that both proteins are associated with two nuclear substructures tentatively identified as the chromatin and the nuclear matrix. The function of myb proteins may therefore depend on interactions with several nuclear targets.

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