Fig. 1. Hand functions as a potent transcription activator. (A)
Schematic drawing of the Hand mutant constructs for
structure/function studies. (B) Activation of the L8E6 promoter by
Hand and deletion mutants. (C) Mapping the transcription
activation domain of Hand with Gal4-Hand fusions. (D) Hand-EnR blocks
the transcriptional activity of wild-type Hand on the L8E6 promoter in a
dosage-dependent fashion. All experiments were carried out in
Drosophila S2 cells.