The activation domain of the maize transcription factor Opaque-2 resides in a single acidic region.

AUTOR(ES)

Schmitz, D

RESUMO

The maize (Zea mays L.) endosperm specific transcription factor, encoded by the Opaque-2(O2) locus, functions in vivo to activate transcription from its target promoters.O2 regulates the expression of a major storage protein class, the 22 kDa zeins, and of a type I ribosome inactivating protein, b-32, during maturation phase endosperm development. The coding sequence of O2, which indicates it to be a member of the basic region-leucine zipper (bZIP) class of DNA-binding proteins, contains a number of regions rich in either proline or acidic residues which are candidates for activation domains. In functional assays using tobacco mesophyll protoplasts, the level of transactivation conferred by a series of O2-deletion constructs was tested using as a reporter a fusion of the b-32 target promoter to beta-glucuronidase (GUS). The results indicate that O2 has a single acidic activation domain, located near the N-terminus of the protein (amino acids 41-91). The ability of a shorter part of this domain (amino acids 39-82) to confer transactivation was also demonstrated in domain swapping experiments, using fusions of the O2 polypeptide sequence to the DNA-binding domain of the parsley (Petroselinum crispum) transcription factor CPRF1.

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