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    J Biol Chem. 1990 Nov 5;265(31):19065-70.

    Isolation of complementary DNAs encoding a cerebellum-enriched nuclear factor I family that activates transcription from the mouse myelin basic protein promoter.

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    Division of Behavior and Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan.

    Abstract

    A nuclear factor I (NFI) binding sequence in the myelin basic protein (MBP) promoter is required for brain-specific transcription. In the present study, we isolated multiple cDNAs encoding a family of NFI, NFI-B, from mouse brain cDNA libraries. These clones contain unique nucleotide sequences at their 5', 3', or middle portions, presumably as a result of alternative splicing. The entire sequence of NFI-B suggests that NFI-B is a mouse counterpart of NFI-L, which was previously isolated from rat liver. NFI-B is highly enriched in the cerebellum, in contrast with a ubiquitous NFI, CTF/NF-I. NFI-B proteins translated in vitro could bind to the MBP NFI site. Furthermore, we demonstrated by transfection experiments that NFI-B activated transcription from transfected MBP promoter in neuronal/glial NG108-15 cells.

    PMID:
    1699939
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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