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Gene Expression

RBP-Jκ/SHARP Recruits CtIP/CtBP Corepressors To Silence Notch Target Genes

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Pages 10379-10390
Received 28 Jul 2005
Accepted 19 Sep 2005
Published online: 27 Mar 2023
 

Notch is a transmembrane receptor that determines cell fates and pattern formation in all animal species. After ligand binding, proteolytic cleavage steps occur and the intracellular part of Notch translocates to the nucleus, where it targets the DNA-binding protein RBP-Jκ/CBF1. In the absence of Notch, RBP-Jκ represses Notch target genes through the recruitment of a corepressor complex. We and others have identified SHARP as a component of this complex. Here, we functionally demonstrate that the SHARP repression domain is necessary and sufficient to repress transcription and that the absence of this domain causes a dominant negative Notch-like phenotype. We identify the CtIP and CtBP corepressors as novel components of the human RBP-Jκ/SHARP-corepressor complex and show that CtIP binds directly to the SHARP repression domain. Functionally, CtIP and CtBP augment SHARP-mediated repression. Transcriptional repression of the Notch target gene Hey1 is abolished in CtBP-deficient cells or after the functional knockout of CtBP. Furthermore, the endogenous Hey1 promoter is derepressed in CtBP-deficient cells. We propose that a corepressor complex containing CtIP/CtBP facilitates RBP-Jκ/SHARP-mediated repression of Notch target genes.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank G. Chinnadurai, J. R. Nevins, J. E. Visvader, R. Baer, and C. Svensson for providing us with plasmids and antisera and J. D. Hildebrand for providing CtBP-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts (8 Hildebrand, J. D., and P. Soriano. 2002. Overlapping and unique roles for C-terminal binding protein 1 (CtBP1) and CtBP2 during mouse development. Mol. Cell. Biol. 22:52965307.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]). We thank E. Rüber, R. Rittelmann, P. Conradt, M. Bilous, and S. Schirmer for excellent technical assistance.

This study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Emmy-Noether fellowship (BO-1639) to T.B., DFG-grant OS-287/1-1 to F.O., DFG-grant Wi-1725/2-1 to M.W., and SFB 497/A1 to W.K.

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