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Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Technion, Haifa, Israel;
Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung, Braunschweig, Germany; and
Department of Animal Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
IFN regulatory factors (IRFs) constitute a family of transcription factors that are involved in IFN signaling and the development and differentiation of the immune system. Targeted gene disruption studies in mice assigned their primary role to the immune system. Two lymphoid-specific IRF members, IFN consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP) and IRF-4, bind target DNA with greater efficiency following interaction with two transcription factors, PU.1 and E47, leading to transcriptional synergy. PU.1 and E47 are essential for proper differentiation and maturation of lymphoid cells. In addition, ICSBP interacts with two IRF members, IRF-1 and IRF-2, which also have central roles in the regulation of cell-mediated immunity. Previously, we identified a region in ICSBP, termed the IRF association domain (IAD), that is conserved in all IRFs (excluding IRF-1 and IRF-2) and is essential for its interactions with other IRF proteins. Here we show that the IAD is an independent module used by ICSBP and IRF-4 for protein-protein interactions. In addition, an IAD of IRF-2 (IAD2), necessary for interaction with ICSBP, was identified and found to be conserved in IRF-1. The IAD2 shares similar characteristics with the PEST domain that is essential for the interaction of PU.1 with IRF-4. We also show that the ICSBP DNA binding domain is indispensable for the formation of DNA binding heterocomplexes and transcriptional activity. Therefore, our results shed light on the molecular mechanisms that affect IRF activities in the immune system via discrete functional domains.
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