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Function
VG_DROME Involved in determining which thoracic imaginal disk cells will form wings and halteres, perhaps by interacting with other nuclear regulatory proteins. When in combination with scalloped (sd), it acts as a transcriptional activation complex that regulates gene expression in the wing. Binding to sd switches the DNA target selectivity of sd. Required and sufficient for cell proliferation at the dorsal/ventral (D/V) boundary of the wing imaginal disk. Also required for cell proliferation in the wing imaginal disk, mediated via activation of E2f. By interacting with Dhfr, may control genes involved in DNA replication.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The most downstream elements of the Hippo pathway, the TEAD transcription factors, are regulated by several cofactors, such as Vg/VGLL1-3. Earlier findings on human VGLL1 and here on human VGLL3 show that these proteins interact with TEAD via a conserved amino acid motif called the TONDU domain. Surprisingly, our studies reveal that the TEAD-binding domain of Drosophila Vg and of human VGLL2 is more complex and contains an additional structural element, an Omega-loop, that contributes to TEAD binding. To explain this unexpected structural difference between proteins from the same family, we propose that, after the genome-wide duplications at the origin of vertebrates, the Omega-loop present in an ancestral VGLL gene has been lost in some VGLL variants. These findings illustrate how structural and functional constraints can guide the evolution of transcriptional cofactors to preserve their ability to compete with other cofactors for binding to transcription factors.
A new perspective on the interaction between the Vg/VGLL1-3 proteins and the TEAD transcription factors.,Mesrouze Y, Aguilar G, Bokhovchuk F, Martin T, Delaunay C, Villard F, Meyerhofer M, Zimmermann C, Fontana P, Wille R, Vorherr T, Erdmann D, Furet P, Scheufler C, Schmelzle T, Affolter M, Chene P Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 15;10(1):17442. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-74584-x. PMID:33060790[5]
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References
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- ↑ Simmonds AJ, Liu X, Soanes KH, Krause HM, Irvine KD, Bell JB. Molecular interactions between Vestigial and Scalloped promote wing formation in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 1998 Dec 15;12(24):3815-20. PMID:9869635
- ↑ Halder G, Polaczyk P, Kraus ME, Hudson A, Kim J, Laughon A, Carroll S. The Vestigial and Scalloped proteins act together to directly regulate wing-specific gene expression in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 1998 Dec 15;12(24):3900-9. PMID:9869643
- ↑ Mesrouze Y, Aguilar G, Bokhovchuk F, Martin T, Delaunay C, Villard F, Meyerhofer M, Zimmermann C, Fontana P, Wille R, Vorherr T, Erdmann D, Furet P, Scheufler C, Schmelzle T, Affolter M, Chène P. A new perspective on the interaction between the Vg/VGLL1-3 proteins and the TEAD transcription factors. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 15;10(1):17442. PMID:33060790 doi:10.1038/s41598-020-74584-x
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