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Close encounters of many kinds: Fos-Jun interactions that mediate transcription regulatory specificity

Oncogene volume 20, pages 2438–2452 (2001)Cite this article

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Fos and Jun family proteins regulate the expression of a myriad of genes in a variety of tissues and cell types. This functional versatility emerges from their interactions with related bZIP proteins and with structurally unrelated transcription factors. These interactions at composite regulatory elements produce nucleoprotein complexes with high sequence-specificity and regulatory selectivity. Several general principles including binding cooperativity and conformational adaptability have emerged from studies of regulatory complexes containing Fos-Jun family proteins. The structural properties of Fos-Jun family proteins including opposite orientations of heterodimer binding and the ability to bend DNA can contribute to the assembly and functions of such complexes. The cooperative recruitment of transcription factors, coactivators and chromatin remodeling factors to promoter and enhancer regions generates multiprotein transcription regulatory complexes with cell- and stimulus-specific transcriptional activities. The gene-specific architecture of these complexes can mediate the selective control of transcriptional activity.

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We apologize to the many people whose work could not be cited due to space limitations. We thank Mensur Dlakic, Asya Grinberg and Nirmala Rajaram for helpful discussions during preparation of the manuscript and Ann E Goldfeld (Harvard Medical School), Andy Sharroks (Manchester University), Laura McCabe (Michigan State University), Helen Moinova (Case Western Reserve University), Moshe Yaniv (Institute Pasteur) and Thomas Herdegen (University of Kiel) for comments.

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Chinenov, Y., Kerppola, T. Close encounters of many kinds: Fos-Jun interactions that mediate transcription regulatory specificity. Oncogene 20, 2438–2452 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1204385

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