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Savinkova LK, Sharypova EB, Kolchanov NA. On the Role of TATA Boxes and TATA-Binding Protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:1000. [PMID: 36903861 PMCID: PMC10005294 DOI: 10.3390/plants12051000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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For transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II (Pol II), all eukaryotes require assembly of basal transcription machinery on the core promoter, a region located approximately in the locus spanning a transcription start site (-50; +50 bp). Although Pol II is a complex multi-subunit enzyme conserved among all eukaryotes, it cannot initiate transcription without the participation of many other proteins. Transcription initiation on TATA-containing promoters requires the assembly of the preinitiation complex; this process is triggered by an interaction of TATA-binding protein (TBP, a component of the general transcription factor TFIID (transcription factor II D)) with a TATA box. The interaction of TBP with various TATA boxes in plants, in particular Arabidopsis thaliana, has hardly been investigated, except for a few early studies that addressed the role of a TATA box and substitutions in it in plant transcription systems. This is despite the fact that the interaction of TBP with TATA boxes and their variants can be used to regulate transcription. In this review, we examine the roles of some general transcription factors in the assembly of the basal transcription complex, as well as functions of TATA boxes of the model plant A. thaliana. We review examples showing not only the involvement of TATA boxes in the initiation of transcription machinery assembly but also their indirect participation in plant adaptation to environmental conditions in responses to light and other phenomena. Examples of an influence of the expression levels of A. thaliana TBP1 and TBP2 on morphological traits of the plants are also examined. We summarize available functional data on these two early players that trigger the assembly of transcription machinery. This information will deepen the understanding of the mechanisms underlying transcription by Pol II in plants and will help to utilize the functions of the interaction of TBP with TATA boxes in practice.
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CDX2 regulates ACE expression in blood development and leukemia cells. Blood Adv 2021; 5:2012-2016. [PMID: 33843985 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Key PointsExpression of caudal-related homeobox gene 2 (CDX2) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) correlates during hematopoietic emergence. This emergence occurs in human and mouse embryos and in human acute myeloid leukemia; CDX2 homeoprotein also binds to the ACE promoter.
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Ciesla M, Skowronek E, Boguta M. Function of TFIIIC, RNA polymerase III initiation factor, in activation and repression of tRNA gene transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:9444-9455. [PMID: 30053100 PMCID: PMC6182151 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Transcription of transfer RNA genes by RNA polymerase III (Pol III) is controlled by general factors, TFIIIB and TFIIIC, and a negative regulator, Maf1. Here we report the interplay between TFIIIC and Maf1 in controlling Pol III activity upon the physiological switch of yeast from fermentation to respiration. TFIIIC directly competes with Pol III for chromatin occupancy as demonstrated by inversely correlated tDNA binding. The association of TFIIIC with tDNA was stronger under unfavorable respiratory conditions and in the presence of Maf1. Induction of tDNA transcription by glucose-activated protein kinase A (PKA) was correlated with the down-regulation of TFIIIC occupancy on tDNA. The conditions that activate the PKA signaling pathway promoted the binding of TFIIIB subunits, Brf1 and Bdp1, with tDNA, but decreased their interaction with TFIIIC. Association of Brf1 and Bdp1 with TFIIIC was much stronger under repressive conditions, potentially restricting TFIIIB recruitment to tDNA and preventing Pol III recruitment. Altogether, we propose a model in which, depending on growth conditions, TFIIIC promotes activation or repression of tDNA transcription.
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- Malgorzata Ciesla
- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Johnson AN, Weil PA. Identification of a transcriptional activation domain in yeast repressor activator protein 1 (Rap1) using an altered DNA-binding specificity variant. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:5705-5723. [PMID: 28196871 PMCID: PMC5392566 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.779181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Revised: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Repressor activator protein 1 (Rap1) performs multiple vital cellular functions in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae These include regulation of telomere length, transcriptional repression of both telomere-proximal genes and the silent mating type loci, and transcriptional activation of hundreds of mRNA-encoding genes, including the highly transcribed ribosomal protein- and glycolytic enzyme-encoding genes. Studies of the contributions of Rap1 to telomere length regulation and transcriptional repression have yielded significant mechanistic insights. However, the mechanism of Rap1 transcriptional activation remains poorly understood because Rap1 is encoded by a single copy essential gene and is involved in many disparate and essential cellular functions, preventing easy interpretation of attempts to directly dissect Rap1 structure-function relationships. Moreover, conflicting reports on the ability of Rap1-heterologous DNA-binding domain fusion proteins to serve as chimeric transcriptional activators challenge use of this approach to study Rap1. Described here is the development of an altered DNA-binding specificity variant of Rap1 (Rap1AS). We used Rap1AS to map and characterize a 41-amino acid activation domain (AD) within the Rap1 C terminus. We found that this AD is required for transcription of both chimeric reporter genes and authentic chromosomal Rap1 enhancer-containing target genes. Finally, as predicted for a bona fide AD, mutation of this newly identified AD reduced the efficiency of Rap1 binding to a known transcriptional coactivator TFIID-binding target, Taf5. In summary, we show here that Rap1 contains an AD required for Rap1-dependent gene transcription. The Rap1AS variant will likely also be useful for studies of the functions of Rap1 in other biological pathways.
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- Amanda N Johnson
- From the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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- From the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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The Gal4 protein is a well-known prototypic acidic activator that has multiple activation domains. We have previously identified a new activation domain called the nine amino acid transactivation domain (9aaTAD) in Gal4 protein. The family of the 9aaTAD activators currently comprises over 40 members including p53, MLL, E2A and other members of the Gal4 family; Oaf1, Pip2, Pdr1 and Pdr3. In this study, we revised function of all reported Gal4 activation domains. Surprisingly, we found that beside of the activation domain 9aaTAD none of the previously reported activation domains had considerable transactivation potential and were not involved in the activation of transcription. Our results demonstrated that the 9aaTAD domain is the only decisive activation domain in the Gal4 protein. We found that the artificial peptides included in the original Gal4 constructs were results of an unintended consequence of cloning that were responsible for the artificial transcriptional activity. Importantly, the activation domain 9aaTAD, which is the exclusive activation domain in Gal4, is also the central part of a conserved sequence recognized by the inhibitory protein Gal80. We propose a revision of the Gal4 regulation, in which the activation domain 9aaTAD is directly linked to both activation function and Gal80 mediated inhibition.
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A novel male sterility-fertility restoration system in plants for hybrid seed production. Sci Rep 2015; 5:11274. [PMID: 26073981 PMCID: PMC4466886 DOI: 10.1038/srep11274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Hybrid seeds are used for stimulated crop production, as they harness heterosis. The achievement of complete male-sterility in the female-parent and the restored-fertility in F1-hybrids are the major bottlenecks in the commercial hybrid seed production. Here, we report a male sterility-fertility restoration system by engineering the in most nutritive anther wall layer tapetum of female and male parents. In the female parent, high-level, and stringent expression of Arabidopsis autophagy-related gene BECLIN1 was achieved in the tapetum, which altered the tapetal degeneration program, leading to male sterility. This works on our previously demonstrated expression cassette based on functional complementation of TATA-box mutant (TGTA) promoter and TATA-binding protein mutant3 (TBPm3), with modification by conjugating Long Hypocotyle in Far-Red1 fragment (HFR1(NT131)) with TBPm3 (HFR1(NT131)-TBPm3) to exercise regulatory control over it. In the male parent, tapetum-specific Constitutive photo-morphogenesis1 (COP1) was expressed. The F1 obtained by crossing these engineered parents showed decreased BECLIN1 expression, which was further completely abolished when COP1-mutant (COP1(L105A)) was used as a male parent, leading to normal tapetal development and restored fertility. The system works on COP1-HFR1 interaction and COP1-mediated degradation of TBPm3 pool (HFR1(NT131)-TBPm3). The system can be deployed for hybrid seed production in agricultural crops.
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R. Lambert J, K. Nordeen S. A role for the non-conserved N-terminal domain of the TATA-binding protein in the crosstalk between cell signaling pathways and steroid receptors. AIMS MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2015. [DOI: 10.3934/molsci.2015.2.64] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mutations on the DNA binding surface of TBP discriminate between yeast TATA and TATA-less gene transcription. Mol Cell Biol 2014; 34:2929-43. [PMID: 24865972 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01685-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Most RNA polymerase (Pol) II promoters lack a TATA element, yet nearly all Pol II transcription requires TATA binding protein (TBP). While the TBP-TATA interaction is critical for transcription at TATA-containing promoters, it has been unclear whether TBP sequence-specific DNA contacts are required for transcription at TATA-less genes. Transcription factor IID (TFIID), the TBP-containing coactivator that functions at most TATA-less genes, recognizes short sequence-specific promoter elements in metazoans, but analogous promoter elements have not been identified in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We generated a set of mutations in the yeast TBP DNA binding surface and found that most support growth of yeast. Both in vivo and in vitro, many of these mutations are specifically defective for transcription of two TATA-containing genes with only minor defects in transcription of two TATA-less, TFIID-dependent genes. TBP binds several TATA-less promoters with apparent high affinity, but our results suggest that this binding is not important for transcription activity. Our results are consistent with the model that sequence-specific TBP-DNA contacts are not important at yeast TATA-less genes and suggest that other general transcription factors or coactivator subunits are responsible for recognition of TATA-less promoters. Our results also explain why yeast TBP derivatives defective for TATA binding appear defective in activated transcription.
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Transition step during assembly of HIV Tat:P-TEFb transcription complexes and transfer to TAR RNA. Mol Cell Biol 2012; 32:4780-93. [PMID: 23007159 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00206-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Transcription factors regulate eukaryotic RNA polymerase II (Pol II) activity by assembling and remodeling complexes at multiple steps in the transcription cycle. In HIV, we previously proposed a two-step model where the viral Tat protein first preassembles at the promoter with an inactive P-TEFb:7SK snRNP complex and later transfers P-TEFb to TAR on the nascent transcript, displacing the inhibitory snRNP and resulting in Pol II phosphorylation and stimulation of elongation. It is unknown how the Tat:P-TEFb complex transitions to TAR to activate the P-TEFb kinase. Here, we show that P-TEFb artificially recruited to the nascent transcript is not competent for transcription but rather remains inactive due to its assembly with the 7SK snRNP. Tat supplied in trans is able to displace the kinase inhibitor Hexim1 from the snRNP and activate P-TEFb, thereby uncoupling Tat requirements for kinase activation and TAR binding. By combining comprehensive mutagenesis of Tat with multiple cell-based reporter assays that probe the activity of Tat in different arrangements, we genetically defined a transition step in which preassembled Tat:P-TEFb complexes switch to TAR. We propose that a conserved network of residues in Tat has evolved to control this transition and thereby switch the host elongation machinery to viral transcription.
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Singh SP, Pandey T, Srivastava R, Verma PC, Singh PK, Tuli R, Sawant SV. BECLIN1 from Arabidopsis thaliana under the generic control of regulated expression systems, a strategy for developing male sterile plants. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2010; 8:1005-22. [PMID: 21050365 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2010.00527.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Induction of male sterility followed by successful outcrossing is a prerequisite for hybrid seed production. In this article, we have identified a novel use of the BECLIN 1 gene of Arabidopsis, in inducing male sterility in plants, when expressed in the anther tapetum of tobacco. We also report a stringently regulated and high-level expression of the desired gene in tapetum by using a two-component transcription regulation system. The tapetum-specific, two-component transcription system utilizes the TGTA-TBPm³ complementation principle that has been demonstrated by us earlier. We also report a glucocorticoid-dependent expression of AtBECLIN 1 in tapetum, thereby developing glucocorticoid-inducible male sterility in plants.
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- Sudhir P Singh
- Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Division, National Botanical Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, India
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Gokhale SA, Roshan R, Khetan V, Pillai B, Gadgil CJ. A kinetic model of TBP auto-regulation exhibits bistability. Biol Direct 2010; 5:50. [PMID: 20687914 PMCID: PMC2928763 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2010] [Accepted: 08/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background TATA Binding Protein (TBP) is required for transcription initiation by all three eukaryotic RNA polymerases. It participates in transcriptional initiation at the majority of eukaryotic gene promoters, either by direct association to the TATA box upstream of the transcription start site or by indirectly localizing to the promoter through other proteins. TBP exists in solution in a dimeric form but binds to DNA as a monomer. Here, we present the first mathematical model for auto-catalytic TBP expression and use it to study the role of dimerization in maintaining the steady state TBP level. Results We show that the autogenous regulation of TBP results in a system that is capable of exhibiting three steady states: an unstable low TBP state, one stable state corresponding to a physiological TBP concentration, and another stable steady state corresponding to unviable cells where no TBP is expressed. Our model predicts that a basal level of TBP is required to establish the transcription of the TBP gene, and hence for cell viability. It also predicts that, for the condition corresponding to a typical mammalian cell, the high-TBP state and cell viability is sensitive to variation in DNA binding strength. We use the model to explore the effect of the dimer in buffering the response to changes in TBP levels, and show that for some physiological conditions the dimer is not important in buffering against perturbations. Conclusions Results on the necessity of a minimum basal TBP level support the in vivo observations that TBP is maternally inherited, providing the small amount of TBP required to establish its ubiquitous expression. The model shows that the system is sensitive to variations in parameters indicating that it is vulnerable to mutations in TBP. A reduction in TBP-DNA binding constant can lead the system to a regime where the unviable state is the only steady state. Contrary to the current hypotheses, we show that under some physiological conditions the dimer is not very important in restoring the system to steady state. This model demonstrates the use of mathematical modelling to investigate system behaviour and generate hypotheses governing the dynamics of such nonlinear biological systems. Reviewers This article was reviewed by Tomasz Lipniacki, James Faeder and Anna Marciniak-Czochra.
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- Sucheta A Gokhale
- Chemical Engineering and Process Development Division, National Chemical Laboratory, CSIR, Pune 411008, India
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Castañon-Sanchez CA, Luna-Arias JP, de Dios-Bravo MG, Herrera-Aguirre ME, Olivares-Trejo JJ, Orozco E, Hernandez JM. Entamoeba histolytica: A unicellular organism containing two active genes encoding for members of the TBP family. Protein Expr Purif 2010; 70:48-59. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2009.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2009] [Revised: 12/06/2009] [Accepted: 12/09/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Millán-Pacheco C, Capistrán VM, Pastor N. On the consequences of placing amino groups at the TBP-DNA interface. Does TATA really matter? J Mol Recognit 2009; 22:453-64. [DOI: 10.1002/jmr.963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Akhtar W, Veenstra GJC. TBP2 is a substitute for TBP in Xenopus oocyte transcription. BMC Biol 2009; 7:45. [PMID: 19650908 PMCID: PMC2731028 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2009] [Accepted: 08/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background TATA-box-binding protein 2 (TBP2/TRF3) is a vertebrate-specific paralog of TBP that shares with TBP a highly conserved carboxy-terminal domain and the ability to bind the TATA box. TBP2 is highly expressed in oocytes whereas TBP is more abundant in embryos. Results We find that TBP2 is proteolytically degraded upon meiotic maturation; after germinal vesicle breakdown relatively low levels of TBP2 expression persist. Furthermore, TBP2 localizes to the transcriptionally active loops of lampbrush chromosomes and is recruited to a number of injected promoters in oocyte nuclei. Using an altered binding specificity mutant reporter system we show that TBP2 promotes RNA polymerase II transcription in vivo. Intriguingly, TBP, which in oocytes is undetectable at the protein level, can functionally replace TBP2 when ectopically expressed in oocytes, showing that switching of initiation factors can be driven by changes in their expression. Proteolytic degradation of TBP2 is not required for repression of transcription during meiotic maturation, suggesting a redundant role in this repression or a role in initiation factor switching between oocytes and embryos. Conclusion The expression and transcriptional activity of TBP2 in oocytes show that TBP2 is the predominant initiation factor in oocytes, which is substituted by TBP on a subset of promoters in embryos as a result of proteolytic degradation of TBP2 during meiotic maturation.
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- Waseem Akhtar
- Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Sprouse RO, Shcherbakova I, Cheng H, Jamison E, Brenowitz M, Auble DT. Function and structural organization of Mot1 bound to a natural target promoter. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:24935-48. [PMID: 18606810 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803749200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mot1 is an essential, conserved TATA-binding protein (TBP)-associated factor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a member of the Snf2/Swi2 ATPase family. Mot1 uses ATP hydrolysis to displace TBP from DNA, an activity that can be readily reconciled with its global role in gene repression. Less well understood is how Mot1 directly activates gene expression. It has been suggested that Mot1-mediated activation can occur by displacement of inactive TBP-containing complexes from promoters, thereby permitting assembly of functional transcription complexes. Mot1 may also activate transcription by other mechanisms that have not yet been defined. A gap in our understanding has been the absence of biochemical information related to the activity of Mot1 on natural target genes. Using URA1 as a model Mot1-activated promoter, we show striking differences in the way that both TBP and Mot1 interact with DNA compared with other model DNA substrates analyzed previously. These differences are due at least in part to the propensity of TBP alone to bind to the URA1 promoter in the wrong orientation to direct appropriate assembly of the URA1 preinitiation complex. The results suggest that Mot1-mediated activation of URA1 transcription involves at least two steps, one of which is the removal of TBP bound to the promoter in the opposite orientation required for URA1 transcription.
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- Rebekka O Sprouse
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
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Montiel Molina HM, Millán-Pacheco C, Pastor N, del Rio G. Computer-based screening of functional conformers of proteins. PLoS Comput Biol 2008; 4:e1000009. [PMID: 18463705 PMCID: PMC2265533 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2007] [Accepted: 01/24/2008] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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A long-standing goal in biology is to establish the link between function, structure, and dynamics of proteins. Considering that protein function at the molecular level is understood by the ability of proteins to bind to other molecules, the limited structural data of proteins in association with other bio-molecules represents a major hurdle to understanding protein function at the structural level. Recent reports show that protein function can be linked to protein structure and dynamics through network centrality analysis, suggesting that the structures of proteins bound to natural ligands may be inferred computationally. In the present work, a new method is described to discriminate protein conformations relevant to the specific recognition of a ligand. The method relies on a scoring system that matches critical residues with central residues in different structures of a given protein. Central residues are the most traversed residues with the same frequency in networks derived from protein structures. We tested our method in a set of 24 different proteins and more than 260,000 structures of these in the absence of a ligand or bound to it. To illustrate the usefulness of our method in the study of the structure/dynamics/function relationship of proteins, we analyzed mutants of the yeast TATA-binding protein with impaired DNA binding. Our results indicate that critical residues for an interaction are preferentially found as central residues of protein structures in complex with a ligand. Thus, our scoring system effectively distinguishes protein conformations relevant to the function of interest. Proteins participate in most of the doings of the cells through a variety of interactions. There is an intimate relationship between the function of a protein and its three-dimensional structure, but understanding this relationship remains an unsolved problem, in part due to the limited information on protein structures bound to other biological molecules. On the other hand, thousands of protein structures in the unbound or free form, are made public every year and these differ from those of the bound structures. How to predict the protein structure in the bound form may assist researchers in understanding the structure/function relationship. Here we report that protein structures bound to other molecules tend to present, as central amino acids, those that are critical for binding other molecules. This feature allowed us to identify the protein structures known to be involved in protein interactions from a screening of thousands of structures derived from the free form.
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- Héctor Marlosti Montiel Molina
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Fisiologia Celular, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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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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Calon A, Gross I, Davidson I, Kedinger M, Duluc I, Domon-Dell C, Freund JN. Functional interaction between the homeoprotein CDX1 and the transcriptional machinery containing the TATA-binding protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 35:175-85. [PMID: 17158164 PMCID: PMC1802564 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We have previously reported that the CDX1 homeoprotein interacts with the TATA-box binding protein (TBP) on the promoter of the glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) gene. We show here that CDX1 interacts with TBP via the homeodomain and that the transcriptional activity additionally requires the N-terminal domain upstream of the homeodomain. CDX1 interacting with TBP is connected to members of the TFIID and Mediator complexes, two major elements of the general transcriptional machinery. Transcription luciferase assays performed using an altered-specificity mutant of TBP provide evidence for the functionality of the interaction between CDX1 and TBP. Unlike CDX1, CDX2 does not interact with TBP nor does it transactivate the G6Pase promoter. Swapping experiments between the domains of CDX1 and CDX2 indicate that, despite opposite functional effects of the homeoproteins on the G6Pase promoter, the N-terminal domains and homeodomains of both CDX1 and CDX2 have the intrinsic ability to activate transcription and to interact with TBP. However, the carboxy domains define the specificity of CDX1 and CDX2. Thus, intra-molecular interactions control the activity and partner recruitment of CDX1 and CDX2, leading to different molecular functions.
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- CNRS UMR7104, IGBMC and University Louis PasteurIllkirch, France
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed at INSERM U682, 3 Avenue Molière, 67200 Strasbourg, France. Tel: +33 388 27 77 27; Fax: +33 388 26 35 38;
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Tsihlis ND, Grove A. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase III recruitment factor subunits Brf1 and Bdp1 impose a strict sequence preference for the downstream half of the TATA box. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:5585-93. [PMID: 17028095 PMCID: PMC1636458 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Association of the TATA-binding protein (TBP) with its cognate site within eukaryotic promoters is key to accurate and efficient transcriptional initiation. To achieve recruitment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase III, TBP is associated with two additional factors, Brf1 and Bdp1, to form the initiation factor TFIIIB. Previous data have suggested that the structure or dynamics of the TBP–DNA complex may be altered upon entry of Brf1 and Bdp1 into the complex. We show here, using the altered specificity TBP mutant TBPm3 and an iterative in vitro selection assay, that entry of Brf1 and Bdp1 into the complex imposes a strict sequence preference for the downstream half of the TATA box. Notably, the selected sequence (TGTAAATA) is a perfect match to the TATA box of the RNA polymerase III-transcribed U6 small nuclear RNA (SNR6) gene. We suggest that the selected T•A base pair step at the downstream end of the 8 bp TBP site may provide a DNA flexure that promotes TFIIIB-DNA complex formation.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 225 578 5148; Fax: +1 225 578 8790;
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Kiran K, Ansari SA, Srivastava R, Lodhi N, Chaturvedi CP, Sawant SV, Tuli R. The TATA-box sequence in the basal promoter contributes to determining light-dependent gene expression in plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 142:364-76. [PMID: 16844831 PMCID: PMC1557599 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.084319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2006] [Accepted: 07/10/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A prototype 13-bp TATA-box sequence, TCACTATATATAG, was mutated at each nucleotide position and examined for its function in the core promoter. Specific nucleotides in the first TATA, the second TATA, as well as the flanking sequences influenced promoter function in transient transformation of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum var Petit Havana) leaves. The effect of a given mutation on reporter gene expression in light versus dark was variable and sometimes contrasting. Some mutations, like T(7) or A(8)-->C or G, completely inactivated the expression of the minimal promoter in light but not in dark. In general, the sequence requirement for dark expression was less stringent than that for light expression. The selective effect of TATA-box mutations on light versus dark expression was exerted on core promoter function in the chromatin-integrated state also. Even in the presence of an upstream light response activator element, TATA-box mutations influenced modulation of the promoter by light. An A at the eighth position was specifically involved in the red light response of the promoter. Selectivity in gene expression was associated with a high level of transcript initiation from a site that was not active in the dark. Nuclear proteins from dark- and light-grown seedlings showed that the sequence variation within the TATA-box governs the formation of alternative transcriptional complexes. The experiments give direct evidence for the role of a core TATA-box sequence in determining the level as well as selectivity of gene expression in plants.
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- Kanti Kiran
- National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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Gregory BD, Nickels BE, Darst SA, Hochschild A. An altered-specificity DNA-binding mutant of Escherichia coliσ70 facilitates the analysis of σ70 function in vivo. Mol Microbiol 2005; 56:1208-19. [PMID: 15882415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04624.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The sigma subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase is strictly required for promoter recognition. The primary (housekeeping) sigma factor of Escherichia coli, sigma(70), is responsible for most of the gene expression in exponentially growing cells. The fact that sigma(70) is an essential protein has complicated efforts to genetically dissect the functions of sigma(70). To facilitate the analysis of sigma(70) function in vivo, we isolated an altered-specificity DNA-binding mutant of sigma(70), sigma(70) R584A, which preferentially recognizes a mutant promoter that is not efficiently recognized by wild-type sigma(70). Exploiting this sigma(70) mutant as a genetic tool, we establish an in vivo assay for the inhibitory effect of the bacteriophage T4-encoded anti-sigma factor AsiA on sigma(70)-dependent transcription. Our results demonstrate the utility of this altered-specificity system for genetically dissecting sigma(70) and its interactions with transcription regulators.
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- Brian D Gregory
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- A A Travers
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, UK
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de Dios-Bravo G, Luna-Arias JP, Riverón AM, Olivares-Trejo JJ, López-Camarillo C, Orozco E. Entamoeba histolytica TATA-box binding protein binds to different TATA variants in vitro. FEBS J 2005; 272:1354-66. [PMID: 15752353 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04566.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The ability of Entamoeba histolytica TATA binding protein (EhTBP) to interact with different TATA boxes in gene promoters may be one of the key factors to perform an efficient transcription in this human parasite. In this paper we used several TATA variants to study the in vitro EhTBP DNA-binding activity and to determine the TATA-EhTBP dissociation constants. The presence of EhTBP in complexes formed by nuclear extracts (NE) and the TATTTAAA oligonucleotide, which corresponds to the canonical TATA box for E. histolytica, was demonstrated by gel-shift assays. In these experiments a single NE-TATTTAAA oligonucleotide complex was detected. Complex was retarded by anti-EhTBP Igs in supershift experiments and antibodies also recognized the cross-linked complex in Western blot assays. Recombinant EhTBP formed specific complexes with TATA variants found in E. histolytica gene promoters and other TATA variants generated by mutation of TATTTAAA sequence. The dissociation constants of recombinant EhTBP for TATA variants ranged between 1.04 (+/-0.39) x 10(-11) and 1.60 (+/-0.37) x 10(-10) m. TATTTAAA and TAT_ _AAA motifs presented the lowest KD values. Intriguingly, the recombinant EhTBP affinity for TATA variants is stronger than other TBPs reported. In addition, EhTBP is more promiscuous than human and yeast TBPs, probably due to modifications in amino acids involved in TBP-DNA binding.
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- Guadalupe de Dios-Bravo
- Programa de Biomedicina Molecular, Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
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Xu S, Hori RT. Identification of a domain within human TAF(I)48, a subunit of Selectivity Factor 1, that interacts with helix 2 of TBP. Gene 2004; 338:177-86. [PMID: 15315821 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.04.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2003] [Revised: 04/02/2004] [Accepted: 04/26/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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RNA polymerase I transcription in human cells requires Selectivity Factor 1, a multisubunit complex composed of the TATA-box-binding protein (TBP) and three TBP-associated factors (TAFs) called TAF(I)48, TAF(I)63 and TAF(I)110. Each of the Selectivity Factor 1 subunits binds directly to the other three components, but these interactions have not been characterized. This study is the initial identification and analysis of a TBP-binding domain within a Selectivity Factor 1 TAF. The interaction between human TBP and human TAF(I)48 was initially examined using the yeast two-hybrid assay, and a TBP-binding domain was identified in the carboxyl-terminus of human (h)TAF(I)48. Consistent with this result, the hTAF(I)48 carboxyl-terminus was able to bind directly to TBP in protein-protein interaction assays. When mutations were introduced into the hTAF(I)48 carboxyl-terminus, we identified changes in uncharged and positive residues that affect its interaction with TBP. By examining TBP mutants, residues within and adjacent to helix 2 of TBP, previously demonstrated to interact with subunits of other TBP-containing complexes [Transcription Factor IID (TFIID) and TFIIIB] were also found to diminish its affinity for the carboxyl-terminus of hTAF(I)48. The regions of hTAF(I)48 and TBP that interact are compared to those identified within other complexes containing TBP.
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- Shuping Xu
- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, G01, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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van Opijnen T, Kamoschinski J, Jeeninga RE, Berkhout B. The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 promoter contains a CATA box instead of a TATA box for optimal transcription and replication. J Virol 2004; 78:6883-90. [PMID: 15194764 PMCID: PMC421681 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.13.6883-6890.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transcriptional promoter contains a single polymorphism in the TATA box. Most subtypes contain the sequence TATAAGC, but subtype E and some recombinant AG strains have the sequence TAAAAGC. Based on mutagenesis studies of cellular RNA polymerase II (pol II) promoters, it has been proposed that the subtype E TATA box is nonfunctional due to the T-to-A substitution at the critical position 3. By means of transcription and virus replication assays, we demonstrate that the true TATA box motif within the viral long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter starts two nucleotides further upstream. Because of this realignment, subtype E has the sequence CATAAAA and all other subtypes have the sequence CATATAA. The polymorphism therefore has shifted from position 3 to position 5 and is no longer incompatible with efficient transcription according to rules determined for cellular pol II promoters. In addition, through sensitive competition experiments, we demonstrate that the CATA box of subtypes B and E can be improved for replication by the mutations 1T and 5T, respectively. The fact that the fitness of both subtype LTRs can be increased by specific point mutations in the CATA box suggests that the transcriptional promoter of HIV-1 is fine-tuned towards a suboptimal level of replication. However, this replication rate may be optimal in the in vivo context of an infected individual.
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- Tim van Opijnen
- Department of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Murai K, Naruse Y, Shaul Y, Agata Y, Mori N. Direct interaction of NRSF with TBP: chromatin reorganization and core promoter repression for neuron-specific gene transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:3180-9. [PMID: 15197246 PMCID: PMC434424 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Neural restrictive silencer factor, NRSF (also known as REST) binds a neuronal cell type selective silencer element to mediate transcriptional repression of neuron-specific genes in non-neuronal cells and neuronal progenitors. Two repression domains (RD-1 and RD-2) occur in its N-terminal and C-terminal regions, respectively. RD-1 recruits mSin3 and HDAC, thereby inhibiting transcription by inducing reorganization of the chromatin structure. However, little is known about how such global repression becomes promoter-specific repression or whether the NRSF-HDAC complex can interact with transcriptional core factors at each specific promoter. Here we show evidence that NRSF interacts with core promoter factors, including TATA-binding protein (TBP). The NRSF-TBP interaction occurred between the linear segments of the N- and C-terminal-most portions of NRSF and the C-terminal half of TBP. A RD-2 mutant of NRSF lost the TBP-binding activity and was unable to repress transcription at an exogenously introduced TGTA promoter. These results indicate that the direct interaction between the NRSF C-terminal domain and TBP is essential for the C-terminal repression mechanism of NRSF. Thus, the RD-1 and RD-2 repression domains of NRSF utilize both chromatin-dependent and chromatin-independent mechanisms, which may be segregated at various stages of neural development and modulation.
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- Kiyohito Murai
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, Gengo 36-3, Morioka, Oobu, Aichi 474-8522, Japan
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Tubon TC, Tansey WP, Herr W. A nonconserved surface of the TFIIB zinc ribbon domain plays a direct role in RNA polymerase II recruitment. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:2863-74. [PMID: 15024075 PMCID: PMC371104 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.7.2863-2874.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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 general transcription factor TFIIB is a highly conserved and essential component of the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II (pol II) transcription initiation machinery. It consists of a single polypeptide with two conserved structural domains: an amino-terminal zinc ribbon structure (TFIIB(ZR)) and a carboxy-terminal core (TFIIB(CORE)). We have analyzed the role of the amino-terminal region of human TFIIB in transcription in vivo and in vitro. We identified a small nonconserved surface of the TFIIB(ZR) that is required for pol II transcription in vivo and for different types of basal pol II transcription in vitro. Consistent with a general role in transcription, this TFIIB(ZR) surface is directly involved in the recruitment of pol II to a TATA box-containing promoter. Curiously, although the amino-terminal human TFIIB(ZR) domain can recruit both human pol II and yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) pol II, the yeast TFIIB amino-terminal region recruits yeast pol II but not human pol II. Thus, a critical process in transcription from many different promoters-pol II recruitment-has changed in sequence specificity during eukaryotic evolution.
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- Thomas C Tubon
- Graduate Program in Genetics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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Topalidou I, Papamichos-Chronakis M, Thireos G. Post-TATA binding protein recruitment clearance of Gcn5-dependent histone acetylation within promoter nucleosomes. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:7809-17. [PMID: 14560024 PMCID: PMC207637 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.21.7809-7817.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Transcriptional activation of eukaryotic genes often requires the function of histone acetyltransferases (HATs), which is expected to result in the hyperacetylation of histones within promoter nucleosomes. In this study we show that, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the steady-state levels of Gcn5-dependent histone acetylation within a number of transcriptionally active promoters are inversely related to the rate of transcription. High acetylation levels were measured only when transcription was attenuated either by TATA element mutations or in a strain carrying a temperature-sensitive protein component of RNA polymerase II. In addition, we show that in one case the low levels of histone acetylation depend on the function of the Rpd3 histone deacetylase. These results point to the existence of an unexpected interplay of two opposing histone-modifying activities which operate on promoter nucleosomes following the initiation of RNA synthesis. Such interplay could ensure rapid turnover of chromatin acetylation states in continuously reprogrammed transcriptional systems.
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- Irini Topalidou
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, Heraklion 711 10, Crete, Greece
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Howcroft TK, Singer DS. Expression of nonclassical MHC class Ib genes: comparison of regulatory elements. Immunol Res 2003; 27:1-30. [PMID: 12637766 DOI: 10.1385/ir:27:1:1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Peptide binding proteins of the major histocompatibility complex consist of the "classical" class Ia and "nonclassical" class Ib genes. The gene organization and structure/function relationship of the various exons comprising class I proteins are very similar among the class Ia and class Ib genes. Although the tissue-specific patterns of expression of these two gene families are overlapping, many class Ib genes are distinguished by relative low abundance and/or limited tissue distribution. Further, many of the class Ib genes serve specialized roles in immune responses. Given that the coding sequences of the class Ia and class Ib genes are highly homologous we sought to examine the promoter regions of the various class Ib genes by comparison to the well characterized promoter elements regulating expression of the class Ia genes. This analysis revealed a surprising complexity of promoter structures among all class I genes and few instances of conservation of class Ia promoter regulatory elements among the class Ib genes.
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- T Kevin Howcroft
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1360, USA.
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Escobar-Henriques M, Daignan-Fornier B, Collart MA. The critical cis-acting element required for IMD2 feedback regulation by GDP is a TATA box located 202 nucleotides upstream of the transcription start site. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:6267-78. [PMID: 12917347 PMCID: PMC180940 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.17.6267-6278.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Guanylic nucleotides are essential cellular players, and the critical enzyme in their tightly regulated synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is encoded by the IMD2 gene. The transcription of IMD2 is subject to general repression by nutrient limitation through the cis nutrient-sensing element. It is also subject to specific feedback regulation by the end products of the guanylic nucleotide synthesis pathway. The critical cis element for this latter mechanism is the guanine response element (GRE), a TATAATA sequence which is located 202 nucleotides upstream of the transcription initiation site and which functions as the IMD2 TATA box. We show that the GRE functions in conjunction with a 52-nucleotide stretch near the transcription start site. This very unusual promoter structure ensures low, basal expression of IMD2 and the recruitment of TFIID to the GRE in response to guanylic nucleotide limitation.
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Mitsiou DJ, Stunnenberg HG. p300 is involved in formation of the TBP-TFIIA-containing basal transcription complex, TAC. EMBO J 2003; 22:4501-11. [PMID: 12941701 PMCID: PMC202362 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We have recently identified a novel basal transcription complex, TAC, that is present and active in embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells but not in other adult cells such as COS7. In the search for factors involved in TAC formation, we found that expression of the adenoviral 12S E1A oncoprotein abolishes TAC formation in EC cells. This effect of E1A depends on its N-terminal domain that is essential for cell differentiation and that targets the transcriptional coactivators p300 and PCAF. Expression of p300 lacking its major E1A interaction domain, CH3, restores TAC formation in the presence of E1A, in a bromodomain- and HAT domain-dependent manner. Consistently, the unprocessed TFIIAalphabeta precursor that is selectively assembled into TAC is acetylated preferentially compared with the processed subunits present in 'free' TFIIA. Intriguingly, expression of p300 in COS7 cells that do not contain detectable levels of TAC instigates formation of TAC from endogenous components. Our data suggest that p300 plays a role in formation of the TBP-TFIIA-containing basal transcription complex, TAC.
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- Dimitra J Mitsiou
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Nijmegen, NCMLS 191, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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The adenovirus major late promoter (MLP) has played a pre-eminent role in the analysis of transcription initiation in mammalian cells, and is an outstanding example of the ways in which the study of adenovirus has led to fundamental insights into general cellular processes. The aim of this chapter is to give a comprehensive review of the structure and function of this model mammalian promoter. After a brief description of late transcription in the adenovirus replication cycle, the experimental evidence for the current consensus on the genetic structure of the MLP, including a consideration of non-primate adenovirus MLPs, will be reviewed. Next, the functions of the MLP in the viral life cycle will be examined, and some of the problems that remain to be resolved will be addressed. The review ends with some ideas on how the knowledge of the structure and function of the MLP can be used in designing virus vectors for specific experimental purposes.
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- C S H Young
- Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Microbiology, 701W 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Kassavetis GA, Han S, Naji S, Geiduschek EP. The role of transcription initiation factor IIIB subunits in promoter opening probed by photochemical cross-linking. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17912-7. [PMID: 12637540 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300743200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The core transcription initiation factor (TF) IIIB recruits its conjugate RNA polymerase (pol) III to the promoter and also plays an essential role in promoter opening. TFIIIB assembled with certain deletion mutants of its Brf1 and Bdp1 subunits is competent in pol III recruitment, but the resulting preinitiation complex does not open the promoter. Whether Brf1 and Bdp1 participate in opening the promoter by direct DNA interaction (as sigma subunits of bacterial RNA polymerases do) or indirectly by their action on pol III has been approached by site-specific photochemical protein-DNA cross-linking of TFIIIB-pol III-U6 RNA gene promoter complexes. Brf1, Bdp1, and several pol III subunits can be cross-linked to the nontranscribed strand of the U6 promoter at base pair -9/-8 and +2/+3 (relative to the transcriptional start as +1), respectively the upstream and downstream ends of the DNA segment that opens up into the transcription bubble. Cross-linking of Bdp1 and Brf1 is detected at 0 degrees C in closed preinitiation complexes and at 30 degrees C in complexes that are partly open, but also it is detected in mutant TFIIIB-pol III-DNA complexes that are unable to open the promoter. In contrast, promoter opening-defective TFIIIB mutants generate significant changes of cross-linking of polymerase subunits. The weight of this evidence argues in favor of an indirect mode of action of TFIIIB in promoter opening.
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- George A Kassavetis
- Division of Biological Sciences and the Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA.
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Kou H, Irvin JD, Huisinga KL, Mitra M, Pugh BF. Structural and functional analysis of mutations along the crystallographic dimer interface of the yeast TATA binding protein. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:3186-201. [PMID: 12697819 PMCID: PMC153203 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3186-3201.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The TATA binding protein (TBP) is a central component of the eukaryotic transcription machinery and is subjected to both positive and negative regulation. As is evident from structural and functional studies, TBP's concave DNA binding surface is inhibited by a number of potential mechanisms, including homodimerization and binding to the TAND domain of the TFIID subunit TAF1 (yTAF(II)145/130). Here we further characterized these interactions by creating mutations at 24 amino acids within the Saccharomyces cerevisiae TBP crystallographic dimer interface. These mutants are impaired for dimerization, TAF1 TAND binding, and TATA binding to an extent that is consistent with the crystal or nuclear magnetic resonance structure of these or related interactions. In vivo, these mutants displayed a variety of phenotypes, the severity of which correlated with relative dimer instability in vitro. The phenotypes included a low steady-state level of the mutant TBP, transcriptional derepression, dominant slow growth (partial toxicity), and synthetic toxicity in combination with a deletion of the TAF1 TAND domain. These phenotypes cannot be accounted for by defective interactions with other known TBP inhibitors and likely reflect defects in TBP dimerization.
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- Haiping Kou
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16803, USA
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Johnson SAS, Dubeau L, Kawalek M, Dervan A, Schönthal AH, Dang CV, Johnson DL. Increased expression of TATA-binding protein, the central transcription factor, can contribute to oncogenesis. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:3043-51. [PMID: 12697807 PMCID: PMC153209 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3043-3051.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Despite the central role of TATA-binding protein (TBP) in transcription, changes in cellular TBP concentration produce selective effects on gene expression. Moreover, TBP is up-regulated by oncogenic signaling pathways. These findings suggest that TBP could be a nexus in pathways that regulate cell proliferation and that genetic lesions that result in cellular transformation may produce their effects at least in part through TBP. We provide evidence consistent with this hypothesis, demonstrating that increases in TBP expression contribute to cellular transformation. A Ras-mediated increase in TBP expression is required for full Ras transforming activity. TBP overexpression induces cells to grow in an anchorage-independent manner and to form tumors in athymic mice. These effects on cellular transformation require changes in RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription and on the selective recruitment of TBP to promoters via its DNA binding activity. TBP expression is elevated in human colon carcinomas relative to normal colon epithelium. Both Ras-dependent and Ras-independent mechanisms mediate increases in TBP expression in colon carcinoma cell lines. We conclude that TBP may be a critical component in dysregulated signaling that occurs downstream of genetic lesions that cause tumors.
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- Sandra A S Johnson
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Schroder O, Geiduschek EP, Kassavetis GA. A single-stranded promoter for RNA polymerase III. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:934-9. [PMID: 12538860 PMCID: PMC298704 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.242735699] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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Single strands of DNA serve, in rare instances, as promoters for transcription; duplex DNA promoters with individual strands that also have a promoter capacityfunction have not been described. We show that the nontranscribed strand of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae U6 snRNA gene directs transcription initiation factor IIIB-requiring and accurately initiating transcription by RNA polymerase III. The nontranscribed strand promoter is much more extended than its duplex DNA counterpart, comprising the U6 gene TATA box, a downstream T(7) tract, and an upstream-lying segment. A requirement for placement of the 3' end of the transcribed (template) strand within the confines of the transcription bubble is seen as indicating that the nontranscribed strand provides a scaffold for RNA polymerase recruitment but is deficient at a subsequent step of transcription initiation factor IIIB's direct involvement in promoter opening.
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- Oliver Schroder
- Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA
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Zhao X, Schramm L, Hernandez N, Herr W. A shared surface of TBP directs RNA polymerase II and III transcription via association with different TFIIB family members. Mol Cell 2003; 11:151-61. [PMID: 12535529 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(02)00797-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The TATA box binding protein TBP is highly conserved and the only known basal factor that is involved in transcription by all three eukaryotic nuclear RNA polymerases from promoters with or without a TATA box. By mutagenesis and analysis on a selected set of four model pol II and pol III TATA box-containing and TATA-less promoters, we demonstrate that human TBP utilizes two modes to achieve its versatile functions. First, it uses a different set of surfaces on the conserved and structured TBP core domain to direct transcription from each of the four model promoters. Second, unlike yeast TBP, human TBP can use a shared surface to interact with two different TFIIB family members--TFIIB and Brf2--to initiate transcription by different RNA polymerases.
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- Xuemei Zhao
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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Spencer JV, Arndt KM. A TATA binding protein mutant with increased affinity for DNA directs transcription from a reversed TATA sequence in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:8744-55. [PMID: 12446791 PMCID: PMC139874 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.24.8744-8755.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The TATA-binding protein (TBP) nucleates the assembly and determines the position of the preinitiation complex at RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes. We investigated the importance of two conserved residues on the DNA binding surface of Saccharomyces cerevisiae TBP to DNA binding and sequence discrimination. Because they define a significant break in the twofold symmetry of the TBP-TATA interface, Ala100 and Pro191 have been proposed to be key determinants of TBP binding orientation and transcription directionality. In contrast to previous predictions, we found that substitution of an alanine for Pro191 did not allow recognition of a reversed TATA box in vivo; however, the reciprocal change, Ala100 to proline, resulted in efficient utilization of this and other variant TATA sequences. In vitro assays demonstrated that TBP mutants with the A100P and P191A substitutions have increased and decreased affinity for DNA, respectively. The TATA binding defect of TBP with the P191A mutation could be intragenically suppressed by the A100P substitution. Our results suggest that Ala100 and Pro191 are important for DNA binding and sequence recognition by TBP, that the naturally occurring asymmetry of Ala100 and Pro191 is not essential for function, and that a single amino acid change in TBP can lead to elevated DNA binding affinity and recognition of a reversed TATA sequence.
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- J Vaughn Spencer
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Laura Schramm
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA
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Cang Y, Prelich G. Direct stimulation of transcription by negative cofactor 2 (NC2) through TATA-binding protein (TBP). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:12727-32. [PMID: 12237409 PMCID: PMC130528 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.202236699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Negative cofactor 2 (NC2) is an evolutionarily conserved transcriptional regulator that was originally identified as an inhibitor of basal transcription. Its inhibitory mechanism has been extensively characterized; NC2 binds to the TATA-binding protein (TBP), blocking the recruitment of TFIIA and TFIIB, and thereby inhibiting preinitiation complex assembly. NC2 is also required for expression of many yeast genes in vivo and stimulates TATA-less transcription in a Drosophila in vitro transcription system, but the mechanism responsible for the NC2-mediated stimulation of transcription is not understood. Here we establish that yeast NC2 can directly stimulate activated transcription from TATA-driven promoters both in vivo and in vitro, and moreover that this positive role requires the same surface of TBP that mediates the NC2 repression activity. On the basis of these results, we propose a model to explain how NC2 can mediate both repression and activation through the same surface of TBP.
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- Yong Cang
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Brendan Cormack
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Pikaard CS. Transcription and tyranny in the nucleolus: the organization, activation, dominance and repression of ribosomal RNA genes. THE ARABIDOPSIS BOOK 2002; 1:e0083. [PMID: 22303219 PMCID: PMC3243331 DOI: 10.1199/tab.0083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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- Craig S Pikaard
- Biology Department, Washington University, Campus box 1137, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130, USA ; FAX: 314-935-4432;
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Enhancers when functioning at a distance cannot effectively stimulate transcription from core promoters. We demonstrate that this is due to the inability of enhancer-bound activators to recruit TBP to a distal TATA box. Surprisingly, binding of a transcriptionally inert Oct-1 POU domain near a core promoter enables an enhancer to function from a distance. POU activity neither requires the coactivator OCA-B nor the interaction of TBP with TFIIA. Instead, the POU domain directly facilitates TBP recruitment to the promoter utilizing a bipartite interaction surface. These results establish that an interaction between the DNA binding domain of an activator and TBP can be used to stimulate transcription. Furthermore, they suggest a mechanism for long-range enhancer function in which a TBP complex is preassembled on a promoter via localized recruitment and then acted upon by distal activators.
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- Eric Bertolino
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Yang Z, Wara-aswapati N, Yoshida Y, Walker N, Galson DL, Listman J, Auron PE. Dual regulatory role of human cytomegalovirus immediate-early protein in IL1B transcription is dependent upon Spi-1/PU.1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 294:854-63. [PMID: 12061786 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)00562-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Activation of IL1B gene transcription has been shown to play a crucial role in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection. We previously reported that HCMV immediate-early (IE) proteins vigorously transactivate IL1B expression without the need for a normally essential upstream enhancer. This activation appears to depend upon protein-protein tethering between IE2, which provides a transcription activation domain (TAD), and the DNA-binding domain of the transcription factor Spi-1. We now show a distinct mechanism by which IE1 and IE2 mediate both weak Spi-1-independent and vigorous Spi-1-dependent IL1B transcription from the -59 to +12 IL1B core promoter. These results demonstrate that in contrast to non-viral, enhancer-mediated, transactivation of IL1B, the IE mechanism is not absolutely dependent upon Spi-1. However, Spi-1 is required for vigorous transcription. Additionally, we have discovered that IE1, which cooperates with IE2 to transactivate IL1B, has minimal activity in the absence of IE2 and Spi-1. Furthermore, IE1 is a dual-acting factor, which can either activate or repress IL1B, depending on the presence of both IE2 and the Spi-1 TADs. Therefore, the relative expression of IE1 and IE2, which varies during HCMV infection, may provide a molecular mechanism by which IL1B can be repressed, thus, avoiding clearance by the host.
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- Zhiyong Yang
- The New England Baptist Bone and Joint Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Martel LS, Brown HJ, Berk AJ. Evidence that TAF-TATA box-binding protein interactions are required for activated transcription in mammalian cells. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:2788-98. [PMID: 11909971 PMCID: PMC133715 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.8.2788-2798.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Surfaces of human TATA box-binding protein (hsTBP) required for activated transcription in vivo were defined by constructing a library of surface residue substitution mutations and assaying them for their ability to support activated transcription in transient-transfection assays. In earlier work, three regions were identified where mutations inhibited activated transcription without interfering with TATA box DNA binding. One region is on the upstream surface of the N-terminal TBP repeat with respect to the direction of transcription and corresponds to the TBP surface that interacts with TFIIA. A second region on the stirrup of the C-terminal TBP repeat corresponds to the TFIIB-binding surface. Here we report that the third region where mutations inhibit activated transcription in mammalian cells, the convex surface of the N-terminal repeat, corresponds to a surface on TBP that interacts with hsTAF1, the major scaffold subunit of TFIID. Since mutations at the center of the hsTAF1-interacting region inhibit the ability of the protein to support activated transcription in vivo, these results are consistent with the conclusion that an interaction between hsTBP and TAF(II)s is required for activated transcription in mammalian cells.
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- Lisa S Martel
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Zhao X, Herr W. A regulated two-step mechanism of TBP binding to DNA: a solvent-exposed surface of TBP inhibits TATA box recognition. Cell 2002; 108:615-27. [PMID: 11893333 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00648-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The TATA box binding protein TBP plays a universally important role in eukaryotic nuclear transcription. By mutagenesis, we have discovered a solvent-exposed surface of the structured TBP core domain that is important for inhibition of the DNA binding and DNA-bending activities of full-length wild-type TBP. Full-length wild-type TBP initially binds the TATA box to form an unstable complex containing unbent DNA, and then it slowly forms a stable complex containing bent DNA. TFIIB greatly accelerates formation of a bent TFIIB-TBP-TATA box complex, and the inhibitory DNA binding surface of TBP contributes to the cooperativity of binding to TFIIB. Using TBP and TFIIB, we show that TBP can bind the TATA box through a regulated two-step mechanism, involving a transition from unbent complex to bent complex.
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- Xuemei Zhao
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
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Paulson M, Press C, Smith E, Tanese N, Levy DE. IFN-Stimulated transcription through a TBP-free acetyltransferase complex escapes viral shutoff. Nat Cell Biol 2002; 4:140-7. [PMID: 11802163 DOI: 10.1038/ncb747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Type I interferon (IFN) stimulates transcription through a heteromeric transcription factor that contains tyrosine-phosphorylated STAT2. We show that STAT2 recruits histone acetyltransferases (HAT) through its transactivation domain, resulting in localized transient acetylation of histones. GCN5, but not p300/CBP or PCAF, is required for STAT2 function. However, GCN5 function is impaired by the transcriptional antagonist, adenovirus E1A oncoprotein. The TFIID component TAF(II)130 potentiates STAT2 function, but TAF(II)28 or the HAT activity of TAF(II)250 do not, and transcriptional induction can proceed independently of the TATA-binding protein, TBP. Moreover, IFN-stimulated transcription was resistant to poliovirus-targeted degradation by TBP, and continued despite host-cell transcriptional shutoff during poliovirus infection. We conclude that a non-classical transcriptional mechanism combats an anticellular action of poliovirus, through a TBP-free TAF-containing complex and GCN5.
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- Matthew Paulson
- Department of Pathology, Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Kennedy BK. Mammalian transcription factors in yeast: strangers in a familiar land. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2002; 3:41-9. [PMID: 11823797 DOI: 10.1038/nrm704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Many transcription factors in human cells have functional orthologues in yeast, and a common experimental theme has been to define the function of the yeast protein and then test whether the mammalian version behaves similarly. Although, at first glance, this approach does not seem feasible for factors that do not have yeast counterparts, mammalian transcriptional activators or repressors can be expressed directly in yeast. Often, the mammalian factor retains function in yeast, and this allows investigators to exploit the experimental tractability of yeast to ask a diverse set of questions.
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- Brian K Kennedy
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Virbasius CM, Holstege FC, Young RA, Green MR. Promoter-specific activation defects by a novel yeast TBP mutant compromised for TFIIB interaction. Curr Biol 2001; 11:1794-8. [PMID: 11719223 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(01)00566-8] [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: 11/30/2022]
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TFIIB is an RNA polymerase II general transcription factor (GTF) that has also been implicated in the mechanism of action of certain promoter-specific activators (see, for examples, [1-11]). TFIIB enters the preinitiation complex (PIC) primarily through contact with the TATA box binding protein (TBP), an interaction mediated by three TBP residues [12-14]. To study the role of TFIIB in transcription activation in vivo, we randomly mutagenized these three residues in yeast TBP and screened for promoter-specific activation mutants. One mutant bearing a single conservative substitution, TBP-E186D, is the focus of this study. As expected, TBP-E186D binds normally to the TATA box but fails to support the entry of TFIIB into the PIC. Cells expressing TBP-E186D are viable but have a severe slow-growth phenotype. Whole-genome expression analysis indicates that transcription of 17% of yeast genes are compromised by this mutation. Chimeric promoter analysis indicates that the region of the gene that confers sensitivity to the TBP-E186D mutation is the UAS (upstream activating sequence), which contains the activator binding sites. Most interestingly, other TBP mutants that interfere with different interactions (TFIIB, TFIIA, or the TATA box) and a TFIIB mutant defective for interaction with TBP all manifest distinct and selective promoter-specific activation defects. Our results implicate the entry of TFIIB into the PIC as a critical step in the activation of certain promoters and reveal diverse mechanisms of transcription activation.
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- C M Virbasius
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Programs in Gene Function and Expression, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Pereira LA, van der Knaap JA, van den Boom V, van den Heuvel FA, Timmers HT. TAF(II)170 interacts with the concave surface of TATA-binding protein to inhibit its DNA binding activity. Mol Cell Biol 2001; 21:7523-34. [PMID: 11585931 PMCID: PMC99923 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.21.21.7523-7534.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The human RNA polymerase II transcription factor B-TFIID consists of TATA-binding protein (TBP) and the TBP-associated factor (TAF) TAF(II)170 and can rapidly redistribute over promoter DNA. Here we report the identification of human TBP-binding regions in human TAF(II)170. We have defined the TBP interaction domain of TAF(II)170 within three amino-terminal regions: residues 2 to 137, 290 to 381, and 380 to 460. Each region contains a pair of Huntington-elongation-A subunit-Tor repeats and exhibits species-specific interactions with TBP family members. Remarkably, the altered-specificity TBP mutant (TBP(AS)) containing a triple mutation in the concave surface is defective for binding the TAF(II)170 amino-terminal region of residues 1 to 504. Furthermore, within this region the TAF(II)170 residues 290 to 381 can inhibit the interaction between Drosophila TAF(II)230 (residues 2 to 81) and TBP through competition for the concave surface of TBP. Biochemical analyses of TBP binding to the TATA box indicated that TAF(II)170 region 290-381 inhibits TBP-DNA complex formation. Importantly, the TBP(AS) mutant is less sensitive to TAF(II)170 inhibition. Collectively, our results support a mechanism in which TAF(II)170 induces high-mobility DNA binding by TBP through reversible interactions with its concave DNA binding surface.
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- L A Pereira
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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