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. 1997 Jul;17(7):4105-13.
doi: 10.1128/MCB.17.7.4105.

RING1 is associated with the polycomb group protein complex and acts as a transcriptional repressor

D P Satijn  1 , M J Gunster, J van der Vlag, K M Hamer, W Schul, M J Alkema, A J Saurin, P S Freemont, R van Driel, A P Otte
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RING1 is associated with the polycomb group protein complex and acts as a transcriptional repressor

D P Satijn et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1997 Jul.

Abstract

The Polycomb (Pc) protein is a component of a multimeric, chromatin-associated Polycomb group (PcG) protein complex, which is involved in stable repression of gene activity. The identities of components of the PcG protein complex are largely unknown. In a two-hybrid screen with a vertebrate Pc homolog as a target, we identify the human RING1 protein as interacting with Pc. RING1 is a protein that contains the RING finger motif, a specific zinc-binding domain, which is found in many regulatory proteins. So far, the function of the RING1 protein has remained enigmatic. Here, we show that RING1 coimmunoprecipitates with a human Pc homolog, the vertebrate PcG protein BMI1, and HPH1, a human homolog of the PcG protein Polyhomeotic (Ph). Also, RING1 colocalizes with these vertebrate PcG proteins in nuclear domains of SW480 human colorectal adenocarcinoma and Saos-2 human osteosarcoma cells. Finally, we show that RING1, like Pc, is able to repress gene activity when targeted to a reporter gene. Our findings indicate that RING1 is associated with the human PcG protein complex and that RING1, like PcG proteins, can act as a transcriptional repressor.

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