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Transcription initiation factor TBP: old friend new questions. Biochem Soc Trans 2019; 47:411-423. [DOI: 10.1042/bst20180623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Revised: 01/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In all domains of life, the regulation of transcription by DNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RNAPs) is achieved at the level of initiation to a large extent. Whereas bacterial promoters are recognized by a σ-factor bound to the RNAP, a complex set of transcription factors that recognize specific promoter elements is employed by archaeal and eukaryotic RNAPs. These initiation factors are of particular interest since the regulation of transcription critically relies on initiation rates and thus formation of pre-initiation complexes. The most conserved initiation factor is the TATA-binding protein (TBP), which is of crucial importance for all archaeal-eukaryotic transcription initiation complexes and the only factor required to achieve full rates of initiation in all three eukaryotic and the archaeal transcription systems. Recent structural, biochemical and genome-wide mapping data that focused on the archaeal and specialized RNAP I and III transcription system showed that the involvement and functional importance of TBP is divergent from the canonical role TBP plays in RNAP II transcription. Here, we review the role of TBP in the different transcription systems including a TBP-centric discussion of archaeal and eukaryotic initiation complexes. We furthermore highlight questions concerning the function of TBP that arise from these findings.
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Isogai M, Suzuki H, Maeda R, Tamura TA. Ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent degradation of TBP-like protein is prevented by direct binding of TFIIA. Genes Cells 2016; 21:1223-1232. [PMID: 27696626 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 08/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Although the majority of gene expression is driven by TATA-binding protein (TBP)-based transcription machinery, it has been reported that TBP-related factors (TRFs) are also involved in the regulation of gene expression. TBP-like protein (TLP), which is one of the TRFs and exhibits the highest affinity to TFIIA among known proteins, has recently been showed to have significant roles in gene regulation. However, how the level of TLP is maintained in vivo has remained unknown. In this study, we explored the mechanism by which TLP protein is turned over in vivo and the factor that maintains the amount of TLP. We showed that TLP is rapidly degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome system and that tight interaction with TFIIA results in protection of TLP from ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent degradation. The half-life of TLP was shown to be less than a few hours, and the proteasome inhibitor MG132 specifically suppressed TLP degradation. Moreover, knockdown and over-expression experiments showed that TFIIA is engaged in stabilization of TLPin vivo. Thus, we showed a novel characteristic of TLP, that is, interaction with TFIIA is essential to suppress proteasome-dependent turnover of TLP, providing a further insight into TLP-governed gene regulation.
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- Momoko Isogai
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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Suzuki H, Isogai M, Maeda R, Ura K, Tamura TA. TBP-like protein (TLP) interferes with Taspase1-mediated processing of TFIIA and represses TATA box gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:6285-98. [PMID: 26038314 PMCID: PMC4513858 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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TBP-TFIIA interaction is involved in the potentiation of TATA box-driven promoters. TFIIA activates transcription through stabilization of TATA box-bound TBP. The precursor of TFIIA is subjected to Taspase1-directed processing to generate α and β subunits. Although this processing has been assumed to be required for the promoter activation function of TFIIA, little is known about how the processing is regulated. In this study, we found that TBP-like protein (TLP), which has the highest affinity to TFIIA among known proteins, affects Taspase1-driven processing of TFIIA. TLP interfered with TFIIA processing in vivo and in vitro, and direct binding of TLP to TFIIA was essential for inhibition of the processing. We also showed that TATA box promoters are specifically potentiated by processed TFIIA. Processed TFIIA, but not unprocessed TFIIA, associated with the TATA box. In a TLP-knocked-down condition, not only the amounts of TATA box-bound TFIIA but also those of chromatin-bound TBP were significantly increased, resulting in the stimulation of TATA box-mediated gene expression. Consequently, we suggest that TLP works as a negative regulator of the TFIIA processing and represses TFIIA-governed and TATA-dependent gene expression through preventing TFIIA maturation.
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- Hidefumi Suzuki
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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Suzuki H, Maeda R, Nakadai T, Tamura TA. Activity of the upstream TATA-less promoter of the p21(Waf1/Cip1) gene depends on transcription factor IIA (TFIIA) in addition to TFIIA-reactive TBP-like protein. FEBS J 2014; 281:3126-37. [PMID: 24835508 PMCID: PMC4149786 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2014] [Revised: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 05/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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TATA-binding protein-like protein (TLP) binds to transcription factor IIA (TFIIA) with high affinity, although the significance of this binding is poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the role of TFIIA in transcriptional regulation of the p21Waf1/Cip1 (p21) gene. It has been shown that TLP is indispensable for p53-activated transcription from an upstream TATA-less promoter of the p21 gene. We found that mutant TLPs having decreased TFIIA-binding ability exhibited weakened transcriptional activation function for the upstream promoter. Activity of the upstream promoter was enhanced considerably by an increased amount of TFIIA in a p53-dependent manner, whereas activity of the TATA-containing downstream promoter was enhanced only slightly. TFIIA potentiated the upstream promoter additively with TLP. Although TFIIA is recruited to both promoters, activity of the upstream promoter was much more dependent on TFIIA. Recruitment of TFIIA and TLP to the upstream promoter was augmented in etoposide-treated cells, in which the amount of TFIIA–TLP complex is increased, and TFIIA-reactive TLP was required for the recruitment of both factors. It was confirmed that etoposide-stimulated transcription depends on TLP. We also found that TFIIA-reactive TLP acts to decrease cell growth rate, which can be explained by interaction of the p21 promoter with the transcription factors that we examined. The results of the present study suggest that the upstream TATA-less promoter of p21 needs TFIIA and TFIIA-reactive TLP for p53-dependent transcriptional enhancement.
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Ding T, Wen H, Wei H, Wu H, Zhao J, Chen F, Zhao J. Increased Expression of TBP/TFIID after spinal cord injury in adult rats. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2014; 34:669-77. [PMID: 24710803 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-014-0048-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Transcription factor IID (TFIID), as a general transcription factor, plays a pivotal role in the preinitiation complex (PIC) assembly and transcription initiation by recruiting RNA polymerase II to the promoter. The TFIID complex contains the TATA-box binding protein (TBP) and a group of conserved TAF proteins. However, its distribution and function in the central nervous system (CNS) are more diverse than previously understood. Here, we mainly investigated the spatiotemporal expression and cellular localization of TBP/TFIID during spinal cord injury (SCI) in adult rats. Western blot analysis revealed that TBP/TFIID was present in normal rat's spinal cord. It gradually increased, reached a peak at the third day after SCI, and then decreased. We observed that TBP/TFIID was widely distributed in spinal cord, mainly in neurons and glial cells. In addition, Western blot detection also showed that the third day post-injury was the proliferation peak indicated by the elevated expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), a marker of proliferating cells. Importantly, injury-induced expression of TBP/TFIID was colabelled by PCNA showed the increase of TBP/TFIID expression in proliferating astrocytes and microglia. Collectively, we hypothesize that TBP/TFIID may be implicated in the proliferation of astrocytes and microglia and the recovery of neurological outcomes.
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- Tao Ding
- Department of Orthopaedics, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China
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Chaturvedi CP, Lodhi N, Ansari SA, Tiwari S, Srivastava R, Sawant SV, Tuli R. Mutated TATA-box/TATA binding protein complementation system for regulated transgene expression in tobacco. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 50:917-25. [PMID: 17470060 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03089.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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A two-component expression system was developed to achieve tightly regulated expression of transgenes in plants. One component functioned as an expression module whereas the other functioned as a regulatory module. The expression module comprised a highly expressing TATA-dependent seed-specific promoter in which the TATA motif in the core promoter was mutated to TGTA. The regulatory module expressed a mutated general transcription factor TBPm(3) that recognized TGTA and initiated transcription. Vectors were designed using component one alone or in combination with component two, and were transformed into tobacco. The TGTA mutation in the TATA-box completely inactivated the promoter, making component one non-functional. This non-functional module became transcriptionally active in the presence of the component two that expressed TBPm(3). The reporter gene gusA was expressed from the TGTA-containing chimeric legumin promoter, in a tightly seed-specific manner, in transgenic tobacco plants in the presence of TBPm(3) that was expressed from a constitutive promoter. The results show that the TGTA and TBPm(3) combination can be used to achieve high-level tissue-specific expression of TATA-dependent promoters.
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Hsieh TY, Shiu TY, Huang SM, Lin HH, Lee TC, Chen PJ, Chu HC, Chang WK, Jeng KS, Lai MMC, Chao YC. Molecular pathogenesis of Gilbert's syndrome: decreased TATA-binding protein binding affinity of UGT1A1 gene promoter. Pharmacogenet Genomics 2007; 17:229-36. [PMID: 17496722 DOI: 10.1097/fpc.0b013e328012d0da] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Gilbert's syndrome is a congenital, nonhemolytic, unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. The most common genotype of Gilbert's syndrome is the homozygous polymorphism, A(TA)7TAA, in the promoter of the gene for UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 (UGT1A1), with a thymine adenine insertion in the TATA-box-like sequence, which results in a decrease in UGT1A1 activity. The mechanism responsible for this decrease in UGT1A1 activity, however, has not been elucidated. To clarify the mechanism underlying this deficiency in UGT1A1 activity in patients with Gilbert's syndrome. METHODS The promoter activity assay using the wild-type A(TA)6TAA or the mutant A(TA)7TAA promoter and a luciferase reporter was performed in two different hepatoma cell lines. The binding affinity for a nuclear protein complex or for TATA-binding protein was evaluated by a competitive electophoretic mobility shift assay using wild-type or mutant TATA-box-like oligonucleotide probes and nuclear extract or TATA-binding protein. The formation of complexes between TATA-binding protein and wild-type or mutant oligonucleotide probes was also studied by a quantitive electophoretic mobility shift assay. RESULTS A TA insertion in the TATA-box-like sequence of the promoter activity of UGT1A1 gene. A competitive electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed a decrease in nuclear protein complex binding affinity and TATA-binding protein binding affinity of the mutant TATA-box-like sequence A(TA)7TAA. When the mutants A(TA)5TAA and A(TA)8TAA were also compared, quantitative electrophoretic mobility shift assay demonstrated that the TATA-binding protein binding affinity progressively decreased as the number of TA repeats in the TATA-box-like sequence increased. CONCLUSION TA insertion in the TATA-box-like sequence of the UGT1A1 promoter affected its binding affinity for TATA-binding protein, causing a decrease in its activity. This explains the pathogenesis of Gilbert's syndrome.
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- Tsai-Yuan Hsieh
- Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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Davies CR, Morris JS, Griffiths MR, Page MJ, Pitt A, Stein T, Gusterson BA. Proteomic analysis of the mouse mammary gland is a powerful tool to identify novel proteins that are differentially expressed during mammary development. Proteomics 2007; 6:5694-704. [PMID: 17022101 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200600202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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After lactation, the mouse mammary gland undergoes apoptosis and tissue remodelling as the gland reverts to its prepregnant state. This complex change was investigated using 2-DE. An integrated database was produced from lactation and involution proteomes. Forty-four molecular cluster indexes (MCIs) that showed altered expression from lactation to involution were selected for MS analysis. Of these, 32 gave protein annotations, 18 of which were unequivocal proteins. Selected proteins were then studied across all of development, including pregnancy, using data integrated from another proteome database. Two proteins, the RNA polymerase B transcription factor 3 (BTF3) and the minichromosome maintenance protein 3 (MCM3), although initially selected on the basis of the lactation/involution criteria, had expression profiles that indicated an additional role in mammary development and were further analysed. BTF3, a transcription factor previously not described in the mammary gland, was up-regulated strongly in pregnancy, indicating an involvement in alveolar growth. MCM3's expression was greatest in pregnancy and late involution, decreasing through lactation. Immunohistochemistry localised MCM3 to the mammary epithelium, where a greater proportion of cells stained than for the proliferation marker Ki67. MCM3 expression during lactation may identify cells that are licensed to repopulate the gland during cell loss in lactation and following involution.
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- Claire R Davies
- Department of Pathology, Division of Cancer Sciences and Molecular Pathology, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Imai K, Okamoto T. Transcriptional repression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 by AP-4. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:12495-505. [PMID: 16540471 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m511773200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Elucidation of the mechanism of transcriptional silencing of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) provirus in latently infected cells is crucial to understand the pathophysiology of HIV-1 infection and to develop novel therapies. Here we demonstrate that AP-4 is responsible for the transcriptional repression of HIV-1. We found that AP-4 site within the viral long terminal repeat (LTR) is well conserved in the majority of HIV-1 subtypes and that AP-4 represses HIV-1 gene expression by recruiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) 1 as well as by masking TATA-binding protein to TATA box. AP-4-mediated transcriptional repression was inhibited by an HDAC inhibitor, tricostatin A, and could be exerted even at distant locations from the TATA box. In addition, AP-4 interacted with HDAC1 both in vivo and in vitro. Moreover, chromatin immunoprecipitation assays have revealed that AP-4 and HDAC1 are present in the HIV-1 LTR promoter in latently infected ACH2 and U1 cells, and they are dissociated from the promoter concomitantly with the association of acetylated histone H3, TBP, and RNA polymerase II upon TNF-alpha stimulation of HIV-1 replication. Furthermore, when AP-4 is knocked down by siRNA, HIV-1 production was greatly augmented in cells transfected with a full-length HIV-1 clone. These results suggest that AP-4 may be responsible for transcriptional quiescence of latent HIV-1 provirus and give a molecular basis to the reported efficacy of combination therapy of conventional anti-HIV drugs with an HDAC inhibitor in accelerating the clearance of HIV-1 from individuals infected with the virus.
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- Kenichi Imai
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 467-8601, Japan
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Kim J, Iyer VR. Global role of TATA box-binding protein recruitment to promoters in mediating gene expression profiles. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:8104-12. [PMID: 15340072 PMCID: PMC515063 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.18.8104-8112.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The recruitment of TATA box-binding protein (TBP) to promoters is one of the rate-limiting steps during transcription initiation. However, the global importance of TBP recruitment in determining the absolute and changing levels of transcription across the genome is not known. We used a genomic approach to explore the relationship between TBP recruitment to promoters and global gene expression profiles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our data indicate that first, RNA polymerase III promoters are the most prominent binding targets of TBP in vivo. Second, the steady-state transcript levels of genes throughout the genome are proportional to the occupancy of their promoters by TBP, and changes in the expression levels of these genes are closely correlated with changes in TBP recruitment to their promoters. Third, a consensus TATA element does not appear to be a major determinant of either TBP binding or gene expression throughout the genome. Our results indicate that the recruitment of TBP to promoters in vivo is of universal importance in determining gene expression levels in yeast, regardless of the nature of the core promoter or the type of activator or repressor that may mediate changes in transcription. The primary data reported here are available at http://www.iyerlab.org/tbp.
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MESH Headings
- DNA, Fungal/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/metabolism
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genes, Fungal
- Genome, Fungal
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA Polymerase III/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism
- TATA-Box Binding Protein/genetics
- TATA-Box Binding Protein/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Jonghwan Kim
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 78712-0159, USA
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Iwase H. Molecular action of the estrogen receptor and hormone dependency in breast cancer. Breast Cancer 2003; 10:89-96. [PMID: 12736560 DOI: 10.1007/bf02967632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The measurement of estrogen receptor (ER)alpha in breast cancer tissues is important to discriminate between the hormone dependent and independent tumors. Recently, a second ER, referred to as ERbeta, has been identified. The DNA binding domain of ERbeta is 96% conserved compared with ERalpha, and the ligand binding domain shows 53% conserved residues, suggesting that both receptors can bind estrogen responsive elements on target genes, and that they may also bind similar ligand. While both receptors bind to 17beta-estradiol with equal affinity, other compounds bind with varying affinities to the two receptors. Since the function of ERbeta in breast cancer progression is not well understood, further characterization of the function of ERbeta and its isoforms in breast cancer is warranted. Various kinds of cofactors, such as steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1), transcription intermediary factor 2 (TIF2), and amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1), have also been reported. These coactivators interact with nuclear receptors in a ligand-dependent manner and enhance transcriptional activation by the receptor via histone acetylation/methylation and recruitment of additional coactivator, such as CREB binding protein (CBP)/p300. Thus, action of estrogen is not as simple as thought previously, and is likely influenced by ERbeta, its variants and interaction with cofactors. Improved understanding of the ER mechanism may follow from the discovery of these proteins, although their precise roles remain to be determined.
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- Hirotaka Iwase
- Department of Oncology and Endocrinology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kawasumi 1, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan.
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Mishra AK, Vanathi P, Bhargava P. The transcriptional activator GAL4-VP16 regulates the intra-molecular interactions of the TATA-binding protein. J Biosci 2003; 28:423-36. [PMID: 12799489 DOI: 10.1007/bf02705117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Binding characteristics of yeast TATA-binding protein (yTBP) over five oligomers having different TATA variants and lacking a UASGAL, showed that TATA-binding protein (TBP)-TATA complex gets stabilized in the presence of the acidic activator GAL4-VP16. Activator also greatly suppressed the non-specific TBP-DNA complex formation. The effects were more pronounced over weaker TATA boxes. Activator also reduced the TBP dimer levels both in vitro and in vivo, suggesting the dimer may be a direct target of transcriptional activators. The transcriptional activator facilitated the dimer to monomer transition and activated monomers further to help TBP bind even the weaker TATA boxes stably. The overall stimulatory effect of the GAL4-VP16 on the TBP-TATA complex formation resembles the known effects of removal of the N-terminus of TBP on its activity, suggesting that the activator directly targets the N-terminus of TBP and facilitates its binding to the TATA box.
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- Anurag Kumar Mishra
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007,India
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Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) is the causative agent of ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), a contagious lung cancer of sheep. Until recently, research on JSRV/OPA was hampered by the lack of a tissue culture system for the propagation of the virus. Historically, pathological samples (lung fluid) collected from sheep affected by OPA were the only source of infectious JSRV. Thus studies on the JSRV/OPA system were conducted only where field isolates of OPA cases were readily available. In the past 10 years, the deduction of the JSRV sequence (York et al. 1991; York 1992), the isolation of an infectious and oncogenic JSRV molecular clone (JSRV21) (Palmarini et al. 1999a) and the establishment of a rapid method to produce infectious virus in vitro (Palmarini et al. 1999a) sparked many studies at the molecular level that strengthened past observations and revealed new properties of this unique virus. Here, we will review the data accumulated so far on the molecular biology of JSRV using the infectious and oncogenic JSRV21 molecular clone as virus of reference.
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- M Palmarini
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7386, USA.
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Doyama H, Okada T, Kobayashi T, Suzuki A, Takeda Y, Mabuchi H. Effect of bilirubin UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 gene TATA box genotypes on serum bilirubin concentrations in chronic liver injuries. Hepatology 2000; 32:563-8. [PMID: 10960450 DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2000.16331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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TATA box abnormality in the promoter region of the bilirubin UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 gene has been reported to cause Gilbert's syndrome in white subjects. It has also been reported that the majority of Japanese patients with Gilbert's syndrome are heterozygous for Gly71Arg in the coding region of this gene. On the other hand, some patients with chronic hepatitis often show signs of unexpected hyperbilirubinemia. The aims of this study were to determine which of the genetic variations, TATA box genotype or codon 71 genotype, is most closely related to serum bilirubin concentrations, and whether the TATA box genotype has an effect on serum bilirubin concentrations in patients with hepatitis C-associated chronic liver diseases. In a sample of 300 individuals selected from among the general Japanese population, mean concentrations of total serum bilirubin differed significantly among TATA box genotypes, but not among codon 71 genotypes. Concentration of total serum bilirubin was significantly correlated with TATA box genotypes. In 211 patients with hepatitis C-associated chronic liver diseases, mean concentrations of total serum bilirubin also differed significantly among TATA box genotypes. In patients with chronic hepatitis C, concentration of total serum bilirubin was significantly correlated with TATA box genotypes. In summary, TATA box genotypes, but not codon 71 genotypes, are closely related to serum bilirubin concentrations. TATA box genotypes should therefore be considered when evaluating hepatic function by serum bilirubin concentrations in cases of hepatitis C-associated chronic liver diseases.
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- H Doyama
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Ishikawa, Japan.
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Orfeo T, Chen L, Huang W, Ward G, Bateman E. Distamycin A selectively inhibits Acanthamoeba RNA synthesis and differentiation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1446:273-85. [PMID: 10524202 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(99)00076-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The effects of distamycin A on Acanthamoeba transcription, growth and differentiation were determined. Distamycin A inhibits transcription both in vitro and in vivo and can displace from DNA the transcription activator TATA binding protein promoter binding factor (TPBF). Inhibition in vivo is surprisingly selective for large rRNA precursors, 5S rRNA, profilin, S-adenosylmethionine synthetase, and extendin. Transcription from the TATA binding protein (TBP), TPBF, protein disulfide isomerase, tubulin and RNA polymerase II large subunit genes is only slightly inhibited. Moreover the rate of 5S rRNA transcription eventually recovers and exceeds that of untreated cells, while profilin transcription remains inhibited. Distamycin A inhibition is accompanied by a complex pattern of alterations to steady state levels of mRNAs. Actin, profilin and S-adenosylmethionine synthetase mRNAs are degraded, whereas mRNA encoding TBP is increased slightly in abundance. Transcription inhibition is accompanied by cessation of growth and severe morphological changes to Acanthamoeba, which are consistent with loss of production of mRNA encoding cytoskeletal proteins. Distamycin A also prevents starvation-induced differentiation of Acanthamoeba, in part due to complete prevention of cellulose production and cell wall formation.
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- T Orfeo
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
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Expression of the CYP11A1 (SCC) genes, which encode the enzyme important for the first step of steroid biosynthesis, occurs in the adrenal gland and gonads, and is stimulated by cAMP. Transfection of serial deletions of the SCC promoter, which drives reporter gene expression, showed that a minimal promoter containing only the TATA box could direct cAMP-dependent transcription. Transcription factor SF1, which binds to a site next to the TATA box, can stimulate basal transcription but not cAMP response, either in adrenal cell lines or in COS-1 co-transfected with the SF1 expression plasmid. These data lead to the conclusion that the minimal promoter containing only the TATA box can drive cell type-specific, cAMP-dependent transcription. Additional experiments replacing the TATA sequence of SCC with other TATA sequences suggested that the TATA sequence itself is important for this cAMP-dependent transcription.
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- I C Guo
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hansen RK, Fuqua SAW. The Estrogen Receptor and Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer 1999. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59259-456-6_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The TATA-binding protein is a general transcription factor required by all three eukaryotic nuclear RNA polymerases. In order to study the function of this protein in the transcription of tRNA genes in the silkworm Bombyx mori, we have cloned TBP cDNA from a silkworm cDNA library. As in most other eukaryotes, TBP in silkworms is encoded by a single copy gene and contains a highly conserved C-terminal domain that includes a basic region and two direct repeats. In the less conserved N-terminal domain, silkworm TBP exhibits characteristics such as a glutamine-rich stretch and three imperfect Pro-Met-Thr-like repeats that are also found in Drosophila and human TBP. Silkworm TBP expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to apparent homogeneity binds the TATA element of the wild-type adenovirus major late promoter with nanomolar affinity.
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- C Ouyang
- Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Ratcliffe PJ, Eckardt K, Bauer C. Hypoxia, Erythropoietin Gene Expression, and Erythropoiesis. Compr Physiol 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/cphy.cp040249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Kurth J, Buzy JM, Lindstrom L, Clements JE. In vivo transcriptional regulation of the human immunodeficiency virus in the central nervous system in transgenic mice. J Virol 1996; 70:7686-94. [PMID: 8892889 PMCID: PMC190838 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7686-7694.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) causes infections of the central nervous system (CNS) and has been implicated as the causative agent of AIDS-associated encephalopathy and the AIDS dementia complex. The development of in vivo models of HIV-1-mediated gene expression has shown that the HIV long terminal repeat (LTR) from the viral isolate HIV(JR-CSF) specifically supports gene expression in adult and developing CNS. To determine the molecular basis for HIV-1 developmental CNS gene expression, in vivo footprinting analysis by the ligation-mediated PCR technique was performed on CNS tissue from the brain stem of a transgenic mouse. The association of cellular proteins in the CNS with sequences in the LTR was found over sequences that defined the TATA region, the Sp-1 and NF-kappaB sites, and two upstream regions (-111 to -150 and -260 to -300). A purine-rich sequence at positions -256 to -296 of the HIV(JR-CSF) LTR but not of the HIV(IIIB) LTR specifically bound protein in nuclear extracts of newborn brain tested in electrophoretic mobility shift assays. No specific protein binding was observed to this region in liver or HeLa cell nuclear extracts. This suggests the presence of a newly identified transcription factor involved in regulation of HIV-1 gene expression in the CNS.
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- J Kurth
- Division of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the multiplication and pathogenesis of the human immunodeficiency virus, the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). To block virus multiplication several targets in the life cycle of the virus have already been identified for which antiviral drugs can be developed and gene therapy can be envisaged as a possible treatment or cure of AIDS. The combination of several therapies might be needed for effective treatment. Prevention of HIV infections through effective vaccines still awaits novel, unconventional strategies.
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- S Joshi
- Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Robert F, Forget D, Li J, Greenblatt J, Coulombe B. Localization of subunits of transcription factors IIE and IIF immediately upstream of the transcriptional initiation site of the adenovirus major late promoter. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:8517-20. [PMID: 8621472 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.15.8517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The assembly of a preinitiation complex containing RNA polymerase II on promoter DNA is a complex process that involves several general transcription factors. Using 5-[N-(p-azidobenzoyl)-3-aminoallyl] photocross-linking, we previously determined the locations of the two large subunits of transcription factor (TF) IIA (A35 and A21), TATA box-binding protein (TBP), RNA polymerase II-associated protein (RAP) 30, and TFIIB along the Ad2 ML promoter. We have now localized TFIIE34 and RAP74 just upstream of the transcription start site. The two subunits of TFIIF, RAP74 and RAP30, cross-linked to nucleotides that probed adjacent spaces on the same face of the DNA helix beginning just downstream of TBP at -19 and extending to -5. Specific photocross-linking of TFIIE34 required the presence TFIIE56. In addition, TFIIE and RAP74 strongly stimulated cross-linking of RAP30 and the large subunits of RNA polymerase II to position -19. Our topological data support the idea that RAP74 and TFIIE34 may be involved in melting of the promoter DNA upstream of the initiation site.
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- F Robert
- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada
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Huang W, Wong JM, Bateman E. TATA elements direct bi-directional transcription by RNA polymerases II and III. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:1158-63. [PMID: 8604352 PMCID: PMC145742 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.6.1158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic promoter elements specify the direction and efficiency of transcription, as well as the type of RNA polymerase to be used. One such element, the TATA box, is thought to participate in determining the direction of transcription and can function within promoters for RNA polymerase II or III, depending on the sequence context. In this report the ability of four different TATA boxes to support transcription in vitro was determined. It was found that TATA elements are not directional. However, they support transcription by RNA polymerases II and III. An upstream activating sequence was found to stimulate downstream transcription by RNA polymerase II and to inhibit upstream transcription by RNA polymerases II and III. Thus a promoter necessarily consists of a TATA element and upstream sequences in order to specify the direction of transcription and the type of polymerase to be used.
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- W Huang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405 USA
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Isolation of Xenopus HGF gene promoter and its functional analysis in embryos and animal caps. Dev Genes Evol 1996; 205:300-310. [PMID: 28306033 DOI: 10.1007/bf00365808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/1995] [Accepted: 08/22/1995] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Previously, we isolated Xenopus HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) cDNA and showed in Xenopus embryos that expression of this gene starts at the late gastrula stage mainly in the ventral mesoderm, and furthermore that the expression is induced in animal cap by activin A and bFGF (basic fibroblast growth factor). Here we have cloned the Xenopus HGF gene, covering a 14 kb 5'-upstream region and a 0.2 kb 5'-coding region. Within about 0.5 kb of the 5'-flanking region, the Xenopus HGF gene contained a TATA-like element AATGAAA, one putative NF-1 binding site, two NF-IL-6 binding motif sequences, one putative TGF-β-dependent inhibitory element (TIE) and one AP-1 binding site. A recombinant circular plasmid consisting of a 1.7 kb HGF promoter region and the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene was first expressed at the late gastrula stage in the ventral mesoderm, as was the endogenous HGF gene. The expression of the fusion gene was induced in animal cap cells by activin A and bFGF although induction by the latter was not so strong. Using a series of 5'-deletion constructs introduced into animal caps, silencer elements, which seem to be essential for the gene's regionally correct expression, and the element responsible for induction by activin were found. The results show that the HGF gene promoter isolated here contains elements which may endow the gene with the regulative function for its temporally and spatially regulated expression, although the element necessary for induction by bFGF seems to be missing.
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Huang W, Bateman E. Cloning, expression, and characterization of the TATA-binding protein (TBP) promoter binding factor, a transcription activator of the Acanthamoeba TBP gene. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:28839-47. [PMID: 7499409 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.48.28839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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TATA-binding protein (TBP) gene promoter binding factor (TPBF) is a transactivator which binds to the TBP promoter element (TPE) sequence of the Acanthamoeba TBP gene promoter and stimulates transcription in vitro. We have isolated a cDNA clone encoding TPBF. TPBF is a polypeptide of 327 amino acids with a calculated molecular mass of 37 kDa. The predicted amino acid sequence of TPBF shows no significant homology to other proteins. TPBF has two potential coiled-coil regions, a basic region, a proline-rich region, a histidine-rich N terminus, and a nuclear targeting sequence. The recombinant protein has an apparent molecular mass of 50 kDa, identical with that of TPBF purified from Acanthamoeba. Recombinant TPBF is able to bind DNA and activate transcription with the same specificity as natural Acanthamoeba TPBF, demonstrating the authenticity of the clone. Mobility shift assays of co-translated TPBF polypeptides and chemical cross-linking demonstrate that TPBF is tetrameric in solution and when bound to DNA. Analyses of TPBF mutants show that Coiled-coil II is essential for DNA binding, but Coiled-coil I and the basic region are also involved. TPBF is thus a novel DNA-binding protein with functional similarity to the tumor suppressor protein p53.
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- W Huang
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405, USA
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Bosma PJ, Chowdhury JR, Bakker C, Gantla S, de Boer A, Oostra BA, Lindhout D, Tytgat GN, Jansen PL, Oude Elferink RP. The genetic basis of the reduced expression of bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 in Gilbert's syndrome. N Engl J Med 1995; 333:1171-5. [PMID: 7565971 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199511023331802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1094] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND People with Gilbert's syndrome have mild, chronic unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the absence of liver disease or overt hemolysis. Hepatic glucuronidating activity, essential for efficient biliary excretion of bilirubin, is reduced to about 30 percent of normal. METHODS We sequenced the coding and promoter regions of the gene for bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 (bilirubin/uridine diphosphoglucuronate-glucuronosyltransferase 1)--the only enzyme that contributes substantially to bilirubin glucuronidation--in 10 unrelated patients with Gilbert's syndrome, 16 members of a kindred with a history of Crigler-Najjar syndrome type II, and 55 normal subjects. RESULTS The coding region of the gene for the enzyme was normal in the 10 patients with Gilbert's syndrome. These patients were homozygous for two extra bases (TA) in the TATAA element of the 5' promoter region of the gene (A(TA)7TAA rather than the normal A(TA)6TAA). The presence of the longer TATAA element resulted in the reduced expression of a reporter gene, encoding firefly luciferase, in a human hepatoma cell line. The frequency of the abnormal allele was 40 percent among the normal subjects. The 3 men in the control group who were homozygous for the longer TATAA element had significantly higher serum bilirubin levels than the other 52 normal subjects (P = 0.009). Among the kindred with a history of Crigler-Najjar syndrome type II, only the six heterozygous carriers who had a longer TATAA element on the structurally normal allele had mild hyperbilirubinemia, characteristic of Gilbert's syndrome. CONCLUSIONS Reduced expression of bilirubin UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1 due to an abnormality in the promoter region of the gene for this enzyme appears to be necessary for Gilbert's syndrome but not sufficient for the complete manifestation of the syndrome.
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- P J Bosma
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Emami KH, Navarre WW, Smale ST. Core promoter specificities of the Sp1 and VP16 transcriptional activation domains. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:5906-16. [PMID: 7565743 PMCID: PMC230842 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.11.5906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The core promoter compositions of mammalian protein-coding genes are highly variable; some contain TATA boxes, some contain initiator (Inr) elements, and others contain both or neither of these basal elements. The underlying reason for this heterogeneity remains a mystery, as recent studies have suggested that TATA-containing and Inr-containing core promoters direct transcription initiation by similar mechanisms and respond similarly to a wide variety of upstream activators. To analyze in greater detail the influence of core promoter structure on transcriptional activation, we compared activation by GAL4-VP16 and Sp1 through synthetic core promoters containing a TATA box, an Inr, or both TATA and Inr. Striking differences were found between the two activators, most notably in the relative strengths of the TATA/Inr and Inr core promoters: the TATA/Inr promoter was much stronger than the Inr promoter when transcription was activated by GAL4-VP16, but the strengths of the two promoters were more comparable when transcription was activated by Sp1. To define the domains of Sp1 responsible for efficient activation through an Inr, several Sp1 deletion mutants were tested as GAL4 fusion proteins. The results reveal that the glutamine-rich activation domains, which previously were found to interact with Drosophila TAF110, preferentially stimulate Inr-containing core promoters. In contrast, efficient activation through TATA appears to require additional domains of Sp1. These results demonstrate that activation domains differ in their abilities to function with specific core promoters, suggesting that the core promoter structure found in a given gene may reflect a preference of the regulators of that gene. Furthermore, the core promoter preference of an activation domain may be related to a specific mechanism of action, which may provide a functional criterion for grouping activation domains into distinct classes.
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- K H Emami
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine 90095-1662, USA
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Xiao H, Friesen JD, Lis JT. Recruiting TATA-binding protein to a promoter: transcriptional activation without an upstream activator. Mol Cell Biol 1995; 15:5757-61. [PMID: 7565728 PMCID: PMC230827 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.15.10.5757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The binding of TATA-binding protein (TBP) to the TATA element is the first step in the initiation of RNA polymerase II transcription from many promoters in vitro. It has been proposed that upstream activator proteins stimulate transcription by recruiting TBP to the promoter, thus facilitating the assembly of a transcription complex. However, the role of activator proteins acting at this step to stimulate transcription in vivo remains largely speculative. To test whether recruitment of TBP to the promoter is sufficient for transcriptional activation in vivo, we constructed a hybrid protein containing TBP of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae fused to the DNA-binding domain of GAL4. Our results show that TBP recruited by the GAL4 DNA-binding domain to promoters bearing a GAL4-binding site can interact with the TATA element and direct high levels of transcription. This finding indicates that binding of TBP to promoters in S. cerevisiae is a major rate-limiting step accelerated by upstream activator proteins.
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- H Xiao
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Li JJ, Kim RH, Sodek J. An inverted TATA box directs downstream transcription of the bone sialoprotein gene. Biochem J 1995; 310 ( Pt 1):33-40. [PMID: 7646464 PMCID: PMC1135850 DOI: 10.1042/bj3100033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The orientation of the TATA box is thought to direct downstream transcription of eukaryotic genes by RNA polymerase II. However, the putative TATA box in the promoter of the bone sialoprotein (BSP) gene, which codes for a tissue-specific and developmentally regulated bone matrix protein, is inverted (5'-TTTATA-3') relative to the consensus TATA box sequence (5'-TATAAA-3') and is overlapped by a vitamin D3-response element. Here we show that the inverted TATA sequence in the rat BSP gene binds to recombinant TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) with an affinity similar to that observed with the consensus TATA box, and site-directed point mutations in the inverted TATA sequence (mutating TTTATA into TCTCTA) abrogate both TBP binding and BSP promoter activity. However, when the inverted TATA sequence is changed to a canonical TATAAA, the TBP- and vitamin D3 receptor-binding properties together with the BSP promoter activity are retained. In addition, we found that the TBP is required to reconstitute in vitro transcription driven by the BSP promoter. These studies, which have revealed a naturally occurring inverted TATA box that can bind TBP and direct downstream transcription, demonstrate that the orientation of the TATA box does not determine the direction of transcription in higher eukaryotic genes. Consequently, the inverted TATA box that is conserved in the human, rat and mouse BSP gene promoters will provide an excellent in vivo model to investigate the polarity of the transcription factor IID-DNA complex and its relation to downstream transcription.
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- J J Li
- MRC Group in Periodontal Physiology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sugawara M, Scholl T, Mahanta SK, Ponath PD, Strominger JL. Cooperativity between the J and S elements of class II major histocompatibility complex genes as enhancers in normal and class II-negative patient and mutant B cell lines. J Exp Med 1995; 182:175-84. [PMID: 7790817 PMCID: PMC2192087 DOI: 10.1084/jem.182.1.175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The class II major histocompatibility complex genes all contain in their proximal promoters three cis-elements called S, X, and Y that are conserved in both sequence and position, and a fourth element, J, conserved in sequence but not in position. J, X, and Y and, to some extent, S, have been shown to be functionally important in regulation of expression of these genes. In the present study, a protein factor that binds cooperatively to the S plus J elements of the promoter of the class II major histocompatibility complex gene DPA has been detected. Moreover, functional cooperativity between S and J in activation of the enhancerless -40 interferon-beta (-40 IFN-beta) promoter has been demonstrated. Finally, the latter assay appears to subdivide complementation group A of class II negative human B cell lines that includes both mutants generated in vitro and cells from patients with the bare lymphocyte syndrome (type II). In three of these cell lines, the enhancerless -40 IFN-beta promoter containing the S plus J elements was functionally active, while in the others it was inactive.
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- M Sugawara
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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The TATA binding protein (TBP) is a central component of all eukaryotic transcription machineries. The recruitment of TBP to the promoter is slow and possibly rate limiting in transcription complex assembly. In an effort to understand the nature of this potential rate-limiting step, we have investigated the physical state of TBP prior to DNA binding. By chemical cross-linking, gel filtration chromatography, and protein affinity chromatography, we find that the conserved carboxyl-terminal DNA binding domain of human TBP dimerizes when not bound to DNA. The data completely support the proposed dimeric structure of plant TBP, previously determined by x-ray crystallography. TBP dimers are quite stable, having an approximate equilibrium dissociation constant (KD) in the low nanomolar range. The dimerization interface appears to be dominated by hydrophobic forces, as predicted by the crystal structure. TBP dimers do not bind DNA, but they must dissociate into monomers before stably binding to the TATA box. Dissociation of TBP dimers appears to be relatively slow, and as such has the potential to dictate the kinetics of DNA binding.
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- R A Coleman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA
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Kodadek T. From carpet bombing to cruise missiles: the 'second-order' mechanisms used by transcription factors to ensure specific DNA binding in vivo. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 1995; 2:267-79. [PMID: 9383429 DOI: 10.1016/1074-5521(95)90046-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Transcription factors generally have only modest specificity for their target sites, yet must find them in a sea of non-specific DNA. Some transcription factors are expressed at very high levels, to ensure that, despite losses to non-specific binding, the promoter is still occupied (the carpet-bombing strategy). Others increase their binding specificity by collaborating with other factors in a variety of ways.
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- T Kodadek
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin 78712, USA
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Wettach J, Gohl HP, Tschochner H, Thomm M. Functional interaction of yeast and human TATA-binding proteins with an archaeal RNA polymerase and promoter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:472-6. [PMID: 7831313 PMCID: PMC42762 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.2.472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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TATA boxes are common structural features of eucaryal class II and archaeal promoters. In addition, a gene encoding a polypeptide with sequence similarity to eucaryal TATA-binding protein (TBP) has recently been detected in Archaea, but its relationship to the archaeal transcription factors A (aTFA) and B (aTFB) was unclear. Here, we demonstrate that yeast and human TBP can substitute for aTFB in a Methanococcus-derived archaeal cell-free transcription system. Template-commitment studies show that eucaryal TBP is stably sequestered at the archaeal promoter and that this interaction is further stabilized in combination with aTFA. Binding studies revealed that recognition of an archaeal promoter by TBP involves specific binding to the TATA box. These findings demonstrate a common function of TBP and aTFB and imply a common evolutionary origin of eucaryal and archaeal transcriptional machinery.
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- J Wettach
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany
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Pruzan R, Flint SJ. Transcription of adenovirus RNA polymerase III genes. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1995; 199 ( Pt 1):201-26. [PMID: 7555055 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-79496-4_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- R Pruzan
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, NJ 08544, USA
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Wagner EK, Guzowski JF, Singh J. Transcription of the herpes simplex virus genome during productive and latent infection. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 51:123-65. [PMID: 7659774 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60878-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- E K Wagner
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine 92717, USA
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Identification of functional targets of the Zta transcriptional activator by formation of stable preinitiation complex intermediates. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 7969171 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.12.8365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transcriptional activator proteins stimulate the formation of a preinitiation complex that may be distinct from a basal-level transcription complex in its composition and stability. Components of the general transcription factors that form activator-dependent stable intermediates were determined by the use of Sarkosyl and oligonucleotide challenge experiments. High-level transcriptional activation by the Epstein-Barr virus-encoded Zta protein required an activity in the TFIID fraction that is distinct from the TATA-binding protein (TBP) and the TBP-associated factors. This additional activity copurifies with and is likely to be identical to the previously defined coactivator, USA (M. Meisterernst, A. L. Roy, H. M. Lieu, and R. G. Roeder, Cell 66:981-994, 1991). The formation of a stable preinitiation complex intermediate resistant to Sarkosyl required the preincubation of the promoter DNA with Zta, holo-TFIID (TBP and TBP-associated factors), TFIIB, TFIIA, and the coactivator USA. The formation of a Zta response element-resistant preinitiation complex required the preincubation of promoter DNA with Zta, holo-TFIID, TFIIB, and TFIIA. Agarose gel electrophoretic mobility shift showed that a preformed Zta-holo-TFIID-TFIIA complex was resistant to Sarkosyl and to Zta response element oligonucleotide challenge. DNase I footprinting suggests that only Zta, holo-TFIID, and TFIIA make significant contacts with the promoter DNA. These results provide functional and physical evidence that the Zta transcriptional activator influences at least two distinct steps in preinitiation complex assembly, the formation of the stable holo-TFIID-TFIIA-promoter complex and the subsequent binding of TFIIB and a USA-like coactivator.
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Lieberman P. Identification of functional targets of the Zta transcriptional activator by formation of stable preinitiation complex intermediates. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:8365-75. [PMID: 7969171 PMCID: PMC359375 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.12.8365-8375.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Transcriptional activator proteins stimulate the formation of a preinitiation complex that may be distinct from a basal-level transcription complex in its composition and stability. Components of the general transcription factors that form activator-dependent stable intermediates were determined by the use of Sarkosyl and oligonucleotide challenge experiments. High-level transcriptional activation by the Epstein-Barr virus-encoded Zta protein required an activity in the TFIID fraction that is distinct from the TATA-binding protein (TBP) and the TBP-associated factors. This additional activity copurifies with and is likely to be identical to the previously defined coactivator, USA (M. Meisterernst, A. L. Roy, H. M. Lieu, and R. G. Roeder, Cell 66:981-994, 1991). The formation of a stable preinitiation complex intermediate resistant to Sarkosyl required the preincubation of the promoter DNA with Zta, holo-TFIID (TBP and TBP-associated factors), TFIIB, TFIIA, and the coactivator USA. The formation of a Zta response element-resistant preinitiation complex required the preincubation of promoter DNA with Zta, holo-TFIID, TFIIB, and TFIIA. Agarose gel electrophoretic mobility shift showed that a preformed Zta-holo-TFIID-TFIIA complex was resistant to Sarkosyl and to Zta response element oligonucleotide challenge. DNase I footprinting suggests that only Zta, holo-TFIID, and TFIIA make significant contacts with the promoter DNA. These results provide functional and physical evidence that the Zta transcriptional activator influences at least two distinct steps in preinitiation complex assembly, the formation of the stable holo-TFIID-TFIIA-promoter complex and the subsequent binding of TFIIB and a USA-like coactivator.
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- P Lieberman
- Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey 07110-1199
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Ou SH, Garcia-Martínez LF, Paulssen EJ, Gaynor RB. Role of flanking E box motifs in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 TATA element function. J Virol 1994; 68:7188-99. [PMID: 7933101 PMCID: PMC237158 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.11.7188-7199.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression is dependent on a number of cis-acting DNA elements present in the HIV-1 long terminal repeat. Previous studies have demonstrated that the TATA element is critical for basal and Tat-induced HIV-1 gene expression. The HIV-1 TATA region has an unusual structure in that the TATA sequence is flanked by two palindromic sequence motifs (CANNTG) known as E boxes which can serve as binding sites for the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) class of DNA-binding proteins. In this study, we performed site-directed mutagenesis of both the TATA and the flanking E box sequences of HIV-1. We also substituted the sequences flanking the adenovirus E3 promoter TATA sequence for those flanking the HIV-1 TATA sequence. Constructs were assayed for their levels of basal and Tat-induced gene expression by both in vitro transcription and transient expression assays. Both the TATA box and flanking sequences including the E box motifs were found to be important in modulating both basal gene expression and Tat-induced HIV-1 gene expression. Gel retardation analysis demonstrated that binding of both the recombinant TATA-binding protein (TBP) and the TFIID fraction which contains both TBP and TBP-associated factors was dependent primarily on the TATA element. However, competition analysis suggested that the E boxes may play a role in stabilizing the binding of TFIID but not recombinant TBP. Two proteins representing different classes of bHLH proteins, E47 and AP-4, were assayed for their ability to bind to the flanking E box motifs. We isolated a cDNA clone encoding the complete AP-4 protein and demonstrated that both AP-4 and E47 bound specifically to the 3' E box motif, which contains sequences that correspond to the consensus binding site (CAGCTG). Gel retardation analysis indicated that the binding of AP-4 to the E boxes excluded the binding of TBP to the TATA box. These studies are consistent with a model in which different classes of cellular bHLH proteins may be involved in regulating HIV-1 TATA element function by either inhibiting or promoting the assembly of different preinitiation transcriptional complexes.
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- S H Ou
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 75235-8594
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Binding of basal transcription factor TFIIH to the acidic activation domains of VP16 and p53. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 7935417 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.10.7013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Acidic transcriptional activation domains function well in both yeast and mammalian cells, and some have been shown to bind the general transcription factors TFIID and TFIIB. We now show that two acidic transactivators, herpes simplex virus VP16 and human p53, directly interact with the multisubunit human general transcription factor TFIIH and its Saccharomyces cerevisiae counterpart, factor b. The VP16- and p53-binding domains in these factors lie in the p62 subunit of TFIIH and in the homologous subunit, TFB1, of factor b. Point mutations in VP16 that reduce its transactivation activity in both yeast and mammalian cells weaken its binding to both yeast and human TFIIH. This suggests that binding of activation domains to TFIIH is an important aspect of transcriptional activation.
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Role of core promoter structure in assembly of the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex. A common pathway for formation of preinitiation intermediates at many TATA and TATA-less promoters. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47233-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Seipel K, Georgiev O, Gerber HP, Schaffner W. Basal components of the transcription apparatus (RNA polymerase II, TATA-binding protein) contain activation domains: is the repetitive C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II a "portable enhancer domain"? Mol Reprod Dev 1994; 39:215-25. [PMID: 7826625 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1080390215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Regions rich in serine, threonine, and proline residues can be found in transcriptional activation domains, as well as in the N-terminal parts of mammalian TATA-binding proteins, where they are interrupted by polyglutamine stretches. Likewise, the C-terminal domain of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II contains multiple repeats of the consensus heptapeptide sequence YSPTSPS. To test directly for possible activation functions, we fused the GAL4 DNA-binding domain to the N-terminal domain of human TBP or subdomains of it, and to the C-terminal domain (CTD) of mouse RNA polymerase II or synthetic polymers of a CTD consensus repeat. We found that these chimeric proteins were able to activate transcription when bound to a GAL4 site in front of the TATA box, a function characteristic of transcription factors. However, while subdomains of TBP functioned only from a position close to the TATA box ("promoter" position), multiple repeats of the CTD consensus sequence were also able to mediate transcriptional activation from a remote ("enhancer") position. Our findings suggest that a region of TBP that is unique to mammals functionally cooperates with "proximal" activation domains of promoter-bound transcription factors. They also imply that the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II includes a function that is otherwise confined to remote activation domains of enhancer-bound transcription factors. We suggest that the CTD of RNA polymerase II contains a "portable" remote activation domain that may also facilitate chromatin opening within the transcription unit.
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- K Seipel
- Institut für Molekularbiologie II, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Xiao H, Pearson A, Coulombe B, Truant R, Zhang S, Regier JL, Triezenberg SJ, Reinberg D, Flores O, Ingles CJ. Binding of basal transcription factor TFIIH to the acidic activation domains of VP16 and p53. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:7013-24. [PMID: 7935417 PMCID: PMC359231 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.10.7013-7024.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Acidic transcriptional activation domains function well in both yeast and mammalian cells, and some have been shown to bind the general transcription factors TFIID and TFIIB. We now show that two acidic transactivators, herpes simplex virus VP16 and human p53, directly interact with the multisubunit human general transcription factor TFIIH and its Saccharomyces cerevisiae counterpart, factor b. The VP16- and p53-binding domains in these factors lie in the p62 subunit of TFIIH and in the homologous subunit, TFB1, of factor b. Point mutations in VP16 that reduce its transactivation activity in both yeast and mammalian cells weaken its binding to both yeast and human TFIIH. This suggests that binding of activation domains to TFIIH is an important aspect of transcriptional activation.
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- H Xiao
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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c-Fos-induced activation of a TATA-box-containing promoter involves direct contact with TATA-box-binding protein. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 8065335 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.9.6021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transcriptional activation in eukaryotes involves protein-protein interactions between regulatory transcription factors and components of the basal transcription machinery. Here we show that c-Fos, but not a related protein, Fra-1, can bind the TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) both in vitro and in vivo and that c-Fos can also interact with the transcription factor IID complex. High-affinity binding to TBP requires c-Fos activation modules which cooperate to activate transcription. One of these activation modules contains a TBP-binding motif (TBM) which was identified through its homology to TBP-binding viral activators. This motif is required for transcriptional activation, as well as TBP binding. Domain swap experiments indicate that a domain containing the TBM can confer TBP binding on Fra-1 both in vitro and in vivo. In vivo activation experiments indicate that a GAL4-Fos fusion can activate a promoter bearing a GAL4 site linked to a TATA box but that this activity does not occur at high concentrations of GAL4-Fos. This inhibition (squelching) of c-Fos activity is relieved by the presence of excess TBP, indicating that TBP is a direct functional target of c-Fos. Removing the TBM from c-Fos severely abrogates activation of a promoter containing a TATA box but does not affect activation of a promoter driven only by an initiator element. Collectively, these results suggest that c-Fos is able to activate via two distinct mechanisms, only one of which requires contact with TBP. Since TBP binding is not exhibited by Fra-1, TBP-mediated activation may be one characteristic that discriminates the function of Fos-related proteins.
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Metz R, Bannister AJ, Sutherland JA, Hagemeier C, O'Rourke EC, Cook A, Bravo R, Kouzarides T. c-Fos-induced activation of a TATA-box-containing promoter involves direct contact with TATA-box-binding protein. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:6021-9. [PMID: 8065335 PMCID: PMC359128 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.9.6021-6029.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Transcriptional activation in eukaryotes involves protein-protein interactions between regulatory transcription factors and components of the basal transcription machinery. Here we show that c-Fos, but not a related protein, Fra-1, can bind the TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) both in vitro and in vivo and that c-Fos can also interact with the transcription factor IID complex. High-affinity binding to TBP requires c-Fos activation modules which cooperate to activate transcription. One of these activation modules contains a TBP-binding motif (TBM) which was identified through its homology to TBP-binding viral activators. This motif is required for transcriptional activation, as well as TBP binding. Domain swap experiments indicate that a domain containing the TBM can confer TBP binding on Fra-1 both in vitro and in vivo. In vivo activation experiments indicate that a GAL4-Fos fusion can activate a promoter bearing a GAL4 site linked to a TATA box but that this activity does not occur at high concentrations of GAL4-Fos. This inhibition (squelching) of c-Fos activity is relieved by the presence of excess TBP, indicating that TBP is a direct functional target of c-Fos. Removing the TBM from c-Fos severely abrogates activation of a promoter containing a TATA box but does not affect activation of a promoter driven only by an initiator element. Collectively, these results suggest that c-Fos is able to activate via two distinct mechanisms, only one of which requires contact with TBP. Since TBP binding is not exhibited by Fra-1, TBP-mediated activation may be one characteristic that discriminates the function of Fos-related proteins.
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- R Metz
- Department of Molecular Biology, Bristol-Myers-Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey 08534-4000
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Campbell M, Renshaw-Gegg L, Renne R, Luciw PA. Characterization of the internal promoter of simian foamy viruses. J Virol 1994; 68:4811-20. [PMID: 8035481 PMCID: PMC236420 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.8.4811-4820.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Simian and human foamy viruses (HFV and SFV), genetically related members of the spumavirus genus of retroviruses, have complex genome structures which encode the gag, pol, and env genes for virion proteins as well as additional open reading frames. One of these open reading frames is a viral transactivator, encoded by genes designated taf for SFV and bel-1 for HFV, which augments transcription directed by the long terminal repeat (LTR) through cis-acting targets in the U3 domain of the LTR. Recently, an internal transcriptional promoter has been identified in sequences within the 3' end of the HFV env gene (M. Lochelt, W. Muranyi, and R. M. Flugel, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 90:7317-7321, 1993). We have demonstrated by using transient expression assays in several tissue culture cell lines and by analyzing viral transcripts in infected cells that SFV-1 from a rhesus macaque and SFV-3 from an African green monkey also encode an internal promoter in the env gene. Transcription directed by the internal promoters of SFV-1 and SFV-3 is activated by the taf-1 and taf-3 gene products, respectively, in several cell types. The importance of a TATA box for the SFV-1 internal promoter was established by site-specific mutagenesis, and the 5' ends of transcripts initiating in the internal promoter have been determined. cis-acting sequences in the SFV-1 env gene required for the response to taf-1 are contained within a 121-bp element located 5' to the TATA box in the internal promoter. This taf-1-responsive element in the internal promoter functions in a position- and orientation-independent fashion in a heterologous promoter and thus has the properties of an enhancer which depends on taf-1 activity. Alignments reveal that the SFV-1 internal promoter and the SFV-1 LTR have little sequence relatedness. Cross-transactivation studies show that the transactivators of SFV-1 and HFV function on the internal promoter and LTR of the homologous virus but not on the heterologous virus. In summary, the genomes of simian and human foamy viruses direct viral transcription through both the promoter in the LTR and an internal promoter within the env gene, and each promoter contains unique enhancer-like elements regulated by the viral transactivator.
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- M Campbell
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Coulombe B, Li J, Greenblatt J. Topological localization of the human transcription factors IIA, IIB, TATA box-binding protein, and RNA polymerase II-associated protein 30 on a class II promoter. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32114-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Svaren J, Wineinger B, Chalkley R. Extent of in vivo binding by an upstream activation factor and the role of multiple binding sites in synergistic transcriptional activation. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32059-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hu GZ, Ronne H. Yeast BTF3 protein is encoded by duplicated genes and inhibits the expression of some genes in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 1994; 22:2740-3. [PMID: 8052529 PMCID: PMC308242 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.14.2740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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BTF3 is a human protein that is thought to be involved in transcription by RNA polymerase II [Zheng et al., Cell 50, 361-368, 1987]. A yeast homologue of BTF3, Egd1p, has been identified by its ability to enhance DNA binding of the Gal4p activator [Parthun et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 12, 5683-5689, 1992]. We have cloned a second yeast gene, BTT1, which also encodes a BTF3 homologue. Btt1p and Egd1p are highly similar in sequence, which suggests that they are duplicated proteins with similar functions. Gene disruptions were used to investigate the function of the two proteins. Consistent with published results, we found that loss of EGD1 causes a minor defect in GAL gene induction. Loss of BTT1 has little if any effect. Surprisingly, we found that cells which lack both genes instead express the GAL1 and GAL10 mRNAs at much higher levels than wild type cells. This suggests that BTF3 really plays a negative role in GAL gene expression. Further experiments revealed that expression of the ACT1 and SSO1 genes also is elevated in cells that lack EGD1 and BTT1. In contrast, expression of rRNA and tRNA was not affected. We conclude that Btt1p and Egd1p have redundant functions in vivo, and that they exert a negative effect on the expression of several genes that are transcribed by RNA polymerase II.
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- G Z Hu
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala Biomedical Center, Sweden
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Purification and characterization of TATA-binding protein promoter binding factor. A regulatory transcription factor of the tbp gene. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32343-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Gaston K, Fried M. YY1 is involved in the regulation of the bi-directional promoter of the Surf-1 and Surf-2 genes. FEBS Lett 1994; 347:289-94. [PMID: 8034020 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00567-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The Surfeit locus is an unusual cluster of at least 6 housekeeping genes whose organisation is conserved between birds and mammals. We have previously shown that the divergently transcribed Surf-1 and Surf-2 genes are separated by a bi-directional, TATA-less promoter. In mouse, the Surf-1/Surf-2 promoter contains three important factor binding sites: Su1, Su2, and Su3. These sites are conserved between the mouse and human Surf-1/Surf-2 promoters, bind nuclear factors in vitro, and are required for accurate and efficient expression of Surf-1 and Surf-2 in vivo. Using gel retardation assays, methylation interference experiments, and specific antibodies we demonstrate that the Su1 binding factor is the initiator protein YY1. Over-expression of YY1 results in a major stimulation of transcription in the Surf-1 direction and a minor stimulation of transcription in the Surf-2 direction.
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- K Gaston
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, School of Medical Sciences, UK
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