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KAP-1, a scaffold protein in transcription regulation

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  • Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 102206, China

Received date: 2006-06-15

  Revised date: 2006-08-22

  Online published: 2007-02-10

Abstract

KAP-1 (Alternative names: TIF1b or TRIM28) is one member of transcriptional intermediary factors, which acts as a scaffold in many transcription regulation complexes. The N-terminal RBCC domain of KAP-1 can interact with KRAB-ZFPs, MDM2, MM1, C/EBPb, etc. KAP-1’s C-terminal PHD and Bromodomain is two integrated transcriptional repression domains, which interact with SETDB1, Mi-2a and other proteins to form complexes with histone deacetylase or methyltransferase activity. In addition, KAP-1 can interact with HP1s (heterochromatin protein 1) and then bind to histones via its HP1BD which is a small segment in the central region of KAP-1. It is indicated by many researches that KAP-1, a scaffold protein in transcription regulation, mainly acts as a corepressor in many repression complexes. Meanwhile, it also acts as a coactivator sometimes. It is reported that KAP-1 related transcription regulation complexes exert functions essen-tial for spermiogenesis and early embryo development. This regulation is one pattern of epigenetic regulations.

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YANG Dong, JIANG Ying, HE Fu-Chu . KAP-1, a scaffold protein in transcription regulation[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2007 , 29(2) : 131 -131―136 . DOI: 10.1360/yc-007-0131

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