transcription factor HES-5 (Hairy & enhancer of split 5, HES5)

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Function

  • transcriptional repressor of genes that require a bHLH protein for their transcription
  • transcription repression requires formation of a complex with a corepressor protein, Groucho
  • has a particular type of basic domain (presence of a helix-interrupting proline) that binds to the N-box (CACNAG), rather than the canonical E-box (CANNTG)
  • C-terminal WRPW motif is a transcriptional repression domain necessary for the interaction with Groucho, a transcriptional corepressor recruited to specific target DNA by Hairy-related proteins

Structure

Compartment

nucleus

Expression

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References

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