Molecular cloning and characterization of the murine staf cDNA encoding a transcription activating factor for the selenocysteine tRNA gene in mouse mammary gland.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
K AdachiT Oka

Abstract

We have isolated and characterized a cDNA encoding a transcription activating factor for the mouse selenocysteine tRNA (tRNAsec) gene from mouse mammary gland. The full-length cDNA, designated m-Staf, has a 1878-base pair open reading frame encoding 626 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of m-Staf is highly homologous to that of Staf, another selenocysteine tRNA gene transcription activating factor of Xenopus laevis. Like Staf, m-Staf contains seven tandemly repeated zinc fingers and four repeated motifs. Gel shift assays indicated that the recombinant m-Staf specifically bound to the activator element region in the mouse tRNAsec gene. Transient co-transfection experiments in Drosophila Schneider cells, which lack endogenous Staf-like binding activity, showed that m-Staf increased the mouse tRNAsec gene transcription about 15-fold, whereas it stimulated Pol II-dependent thymidine kinase promoter only 2-fold. Northern blot analysis detected the presence of a 3.4-kilobase pair m-Staf transcript, which was widely but differentially expressed in various murine tissues. The binding activity of m-Staf in mouse mammary gland was undetectable during virgin and postlactating periods but increased markedly in parallel with th...Continue Reading

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