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SUBMITTER: Anbanandam A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1859914 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Anbanandam Asokan A Albarado Diana C DC Nguyen Catherine T CT Halder Georg G Gao Xiaolian X Veeraraghavan Sudha S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061103 46
Transcription enhancer factor 1 is essential for cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle development and uses its N-terminal TEA domain (TEAD) to bind M-CAT elements. Here, we present the first structure of TEAD and show that it is a three-helix bundle with a homeodomain fold. Structural data reveal how TEAD binds DNA. Using structure-function correlations, we find that the L1 loop is essential for cooperative loading of TEAD molecules on to tandemly duplicated M-CAT sites. Furthermore, using a mic ...[more]