Localization of human transcription factor TEF-4 and TEF-5 (TEAD2, TEAD3) genes to chromosomes 19q13.3 and 6p21.2 using fluorescence in situ hybridization and radiation hybrid analysis

Embryonic TEA domain-containing factor (ETF) belongs to the family of proteins structurally related to transcriptional enhancer factor-1 (TEF-1) and is implicated in neural development. Isolation and characterization of the cosmid clones encoding the mouse ETF gene (Etdf) revealed thatEtdfspans approximately 17.9 kb and consists of 12 exons. The exon–intron structure ofEtdfclosely resembles that of theDrosophila scallopedgene, indicating that these genes may have evolved from a common ancestor. The multiple transcription initiation sites revealed by S1 protection and primer extension analyses are consistent with the absence of the canonical TATA and CAAT boxes in the 5′-flanking region, which contains many potential regulatory sequences, such as the E-box, N-box, Sp1 element, GATA-1 element, TAATGARAT element, and B2 short interspersed element (SINE) as well as several direct and inverted repeat sequences. TheEtdflocus was assigned to the proximal region of mouse chromosome 7 using fluorescencein situhybridization and linkage mapping analyses. These results provide the molecular basis for studying the regulation,in vivofunction, and evolution ofEtdf.

*1 The approved gene symbol for embryonic TEA domain-containing factor (ETF) by MGD isEtdf.The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been deposited with the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ Data Libraries under Accession Nos. D83586–D83596. Mapping data from this article have been deposited in the Mouse Genome Database under Accession Nos. MGD-CREX-618 for genetic mapping and MGD-INEX-21 forin situhybridization, respectively.