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ArticlePloS one2018

p73, like its p53 homolog, shows preference for inverted repeats forming cruciforms.

Jana Čechová, Jan Coufal, Eva B Jagelská, Miroslav Fojta, Václav Brázda

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Reactivation ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  5. Amino Acid Composition in Various Types of Nucleic Acid-Binding Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  6. The Rich World of p53 DNA Binding Targets: The Role of DNA Structure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jana ČechováThe Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Královopolská, Brno, Czech Republic.
Jan CoufalThe Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Královopolská, Brno, Czech Republic.
Eva B JagelskáThe Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Královopolská, Brno, Czech Republic.
Miroslav FojtaThe Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Královopolská, Brno, Czech Republic.
Václav BrázdaThe Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Královopolská, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2837-4226
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics · CZMasaryk University · CZ

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

p73 is a member of the p53 protein family and has essential functions in several signaling pathways involved in development, differentiation, DNA damage responses and cancer. As a transcription factor, p73 achieves these functions by binding to consensus DNA sequences and p73 shares at least partial target DNA binding sequence specificity with p53. Transcriptional activation by p73 has been demonstrated for more than fifty p53 targets in yeast and/or human cancer cell lines. It has also been shown previously that p53 binding to DNA is strongly dependent on DNA topology and the presence of inverted repeats that can form DNA cruciforms, but whether p73 transcriptional activity has similar dependence has not been investigated. Therefore, we evaluated p73 binding to a set of p53-response elements with identical theoretical binding affinity in their linear state, but different probabilities to form extra helical structures. We show by a yeast-based assay that transactivation in vivo correlated more with the relative propensity of a response element to form cruciforms than to its expected in vitro DNA binding affinity. Structural features of p73 target sites are therefore likely to be an important determinant of its transactivation function.

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Binding SitesInverted Repeat SequencesBase SequenceHumansNucleic Acid ConformationProtein BindingTranscriptional ActivationTumor Protein p73Tumor Suppressor Protein p53YeastsTumor Protein p73Tumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID29668749
PMCPMC5905954
OpenAlexW2801381304

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