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Volume 17, Number 11,
Issue of June 1, 1997
pp. 4149-4158
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
The Characterization of the Olf-1/EBF-Like HLH Transcription
Factor Family: Implications in Olfactory Gene Regulation and Neuronal
Development
Received Jan. 22, 1997; revised March 12, 1997; accepted March 19, 1997.
Song S. Wang,
Robert Y. L. Tsai, and
Randall R. Reed
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular
Biology and Genetics, and Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
The Olf-1/EBF helix-loop-helix (HLH) transcription factor has been
implicated in olfactory gene regulation and in B-cell development. Using homology screening methods, we identified two additional Olf-1/EBF-like cDNAs from a mouse embryonic cDNA library. The Olf-1/EBF-like (O/E) proteins O/E-1, O/E-2, and O/E-3 define a family
of transcription factors that share structural similarities and
biochemical activities. Although these O/E genes are expressed within
olfactory epithelium in an identical pattern, they exhibit different
patterns of expression in the developing nervous system. Although O/E-1 mRNA is present in several tissues in addition to
olfactory neurons and developing B-cells, O/E-2 and O/E-3 are expressed
at high levels only in olfactory tissue. In O/E-1 knock-out animals,
the presence of two additional O/E family members in olfactory neurons
may provide redundancy and allow normal olfactory neurodevelopment.
Further, the identification of the O/E family of HLH transcription
factors and their embryonic expression patterns suggest that the O/E
proteins may have a more general function in neuronal development.
Key words:
Olf-1/EBF;
O/E;
olfactory gene regulation;
neurodevelopment;
sensory neurons;
differentiation and maturation;
transcription factors
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