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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 111, Issue 16 2353-2363, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists
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T Frohlich, W Risau and I Flamme
Max-Planck-Institut fur physiologische und Klinische Forschung, W. G. Kerckhoff-Institut, Abteilung Molekulare Zellbiologie, Parkstrasse 1, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany.
FAS associated factor 1 (FAF1) has been described as an unusual protein that binds to the intracellular portion of the apoptosis signal transducing receptor FAS/Apo-1 and potentiates apoptosis in L-cells. By means of mRNA differential display we have identified the avian homologue (qFAF) as a fibroblast growth factor-inducible gene in pluripotent cells from E0 quail embryos during mesoderm induction in vitro. Later during embryonic development, qFAF expression is ubiquitous. We confirm that qFAF is associated with FAS, and show that it is phosphorylated on serine residues and localized to the nucleus. By in vitro mutagenesis we have delimited a novel nuclear targeting domain to a short 35 amino acid &agr ;-helical region in the amino-terminal half of the protein. The nuclear function of qFAF remains unclear. However, a probably dominant negative deletion mutant of qFAF causes apoptosis of transfected cells. This function resides in the carboxy-terminal domain of qFAF which shares remarkable sequence homologies with a putative ubiquitin conjugating enzyme from Caenorhabditis elegans. Our data indicate a complex function for FAF, which may be executed during FAS signalling and/or in the ubiquitination pathway, and may be essential for cell differentiation and survival.
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