Table 2.

Four patterns of predicted MafB motifs

MafB binding sequence	MafB motif
tgtctatgctcag	Width	Motif	Ambiguous motif
cttttgtgctgtt	N=8	CTGCTGAC	[CTG]TGCT[GC]AC
ccaaactgctgac	N=9	TCTGCTGAC	[TAG][CTG]TGCT[GC]AC
cgtaactgctgac	N=10	ATCTGCTGAC	[AT][TAG][CTG]TGCT[GC]AC
caaatttgcagac	N=11	TATCTGCTGAC	[TA][AT][TAG][CTG]TGCT[GC]AC
taaagttgctgaa	(N=Nucleotide)
catttctgctgac
aggatgtgatgac
tgttgttgctcac
(Underline; MARE)

MafB motifs were extracted from 9 short MafB binding sequences containing 5’ AT-rich half-MARE(MARE) and validated by biochemical experimentations.