Technical Report abstract
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 1195 - 1199 (2009)
Published online: 18 October 2009 | doi:10.1038/nsmb.1677
Positive selection of DNA-protein interactions in mammalian cells through phenotypic coupling with retrovirus production
Ulrich Tschulena1, Kenneth R Peterson2, Beatriz Gonzalez1, Halyna Fedosyuk2 & Carlos F Barbas III1
Abstract
Through the shuffling of predefined modular zinc finger domains with predictable target site recognition in vitro, we have generated a large repertoire of artificial transcription factors with five zinc finger domains (TFZFs). Here we report an effective strategy for the selection of ATF libraries by coupling expression of transcriptional activators of the promoter of interest to the enhanced production of retroviral vector particles transferring the TFZF encoding gene. Using this strategy, we successfully selected specific TFZFs that upregulate the expression of the 
-globin promoter. Selected transcription factors induced the expression of -globin when coupled to an activation domain and reduced expression when linked to a repression domain. This new retroviral approach might be used to select other TFZFs but might also be generalized for the selection of other protein and small-molecule interactions.
- The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and the Departments of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
- The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Correspondence to: Carlos F Barbas III1 e-mail: carlos@scripps.edu
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