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. 1999 May;77(5):403-5.
doi: 10.1007/s001090050369.

Conserved transactivation domain shared by interferon regulatory factors and Smad morphogens

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Conserved transactivation domain shared by interferon regulatory factors and Smad morphogens

A Eroshkin et al. J Mol Med (Berl). 1999 May.

Abstract

Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) regulate the transcription of both interferon-inducible genes and interferons themselves. Along with the N-terminal, DNA-binding, winged-helix domain, most IRFs contain the C-terminal domains that are shown to be related to the C-terminal domains in the proteins of the Smad family that mediate transcription activation in the transforming growth factor response pathway. Comparison of the IRF-Smad alignment to the known three-dimensional structure of human tumor suppressor Smad4 suggests that a conserved loop, equivalent to Loop 3 in Smad 4, is a determinant of protein-protein interaction in IRFs.

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