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Conaway RC, Conaway JW. The Mediator complex and transcription elongation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2012; 1829:69-75. [PMID: 22983086 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2012] [Revised: 08/14/2012] [Accepted: 08/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mediator is an evolutionarily conserved multisubunit RNA polymerase II (Pol II) coregulatory complex. Although Mediator was initially found to play a critical role in the regulation of the initiation of Pol II transcription, recent studies have brought to light an expanded role for Mediator at post-initiation stages of transcription. SCOPE OF REVIEW We provide a brief description of the structure of Mediator and its function in the regulation of Pol II transcription initiation, and we summarize recent findings implicating Mediator in the regulation of various stages of Pol II transcription elongation. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Emerging evidence is revealing new roles for Mediator in nearly all stages of Pol II transcription, including initiation, promoter escape, elongation, pre-mRNA processing, and termination. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Mediator plays a central role in the regulation of gene expression by impacting nearly all stages of mRNA synthesis. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: RNA polymerase II Transcript Elongation.
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- Ronald C Conaway
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA.
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Kotova I, Chabes AL, Segerman B, Flodell S, Thelander L, Björklund S. A mouse in vitro transcription system reconstituted from highly purified RNA polymerase II, TFIIH and recombinant TBP, TFIIB, TFIIE and TFIIF. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2001; 268:4527-36. [PMID: 11502214 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02378.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Unregulated transcription of protein-encoding genes in vitro is dependent on 12-subunit core RNA polymerase II and five general transcription factors; TATA binding protein (TBP), transcription factor (TF)IIB, TFIIE, TFIIF, and TFIIH. Here we describe cloning of the mouse cDNAs encoding TFIIB and the small and large TFIIE and TFIIF subunits. The cDNAs have been used to express the corresponding proteins in recombinant form in Escherichia coli and in Sf21 insect cells, and all proteins have been purified to > 90% homogeneity. We have also purified a recombinant His6-tagged mouse TBP to near homogeneity and show that it is active in both a reconstituted mouse in vitro transcription system and a TBP-dependent in vitro transcription system from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The more complex general transcription factors, TFIIH and RNA polymerase II, were purified more than 1000-fold and to near homogeneity, respectively, from tissue cultured mouse cells. When combined, the purified factors were sufficient to initiate transcription from different promoters in vitro. Functional studies of the S-phase-specific mouse ribonucleotide reductase R2 promoter using both the highly purified system described here (a mouse cell nuclear extract in vitro transcription system) and in vivo R2-promoter reporter gene assays together identify an NF-Y interacting promoter proximal CCAAT-box as being essential for high-level expression from the R2 promoter.
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- I Kotova
- Department of Medical Biosciences, Medical Biochemistry, Umeå University, Sweden
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Grummt I. Regulation of mammalian ribosomal gene transcription by RNA polymerase I. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1999; 62:109-54. [PMID: 9932453 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60506-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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All cells, from prokaryotes to vertebrates, synthesize vast amounts of ribosomal RNA to produce the several million new ribosomes per generation that are required to maintain the protein synthetic capacity of the daughter cells. Ribosomal gene (rDNA) transcription is governed by RNA polymerase I (Pol I) assisted by a dedicated set of transcription factors that mediate the specificity of transcription and are the targets of the pleiotrophic pathways the cell uses to adapt rRNA synthesis to cell growth. In the past few years we have begun to understand the specific functions of individual factors involved in rDNA transcription and to elucidate on a molecular level how transcriptional regulation is achieved. This article reviews our present knowledge of the molecular mechanism of rDNA transcriptional regulation.
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- I Grummt
- Division of Molecular Biology of the Cell II, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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Li L, Artlett CM, Jimenez SA, Hall DJ, Varga J. Positive regulation of human alpha 1 (I) collagen promoter activity by transcription factor Sp1. Gene X 1995; 164:229-34. [PMID: 7590335 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00508-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Analysis of the regulatory promoter region of the human alpha 1 (I) collagen-encoding gene (COL1A1) gene indicated the presence of G+C-rich sequence elements that are potential binding sites for the transcription factor Sp1. As a step toward understanding transcriptional regulation of the human COL1A1, we examined Sp1 binding in the promoter region using DNase I footprinting, and analyzed the effect of Sp1 expression on COL1A1 promoter activity in transiently transfected Drosophila melanogaster cells in vivo. The results indicated that recombinant human Sp1 interacted specifically with two G+C-rich sequences within the COL1A1 promoter. Binding of factors in nuclear extracts prepared from human dermal fibroblasts to a 22-nucleotide deoxyribonucleotide (oligo) spanning the 5' G+C-rich sequence required Zn2+, and was abolished by excess Sp1 consensus binding site oligos, or by anti-Sp1 antibodies. Studies in which a series of progressively 5'-deleted COL1A1 promoter::cat constructs were co-expressed with an Sp1 expression plasmid in a cellular background devoid of Sp1 homology demonstrated that Sp1 markedly enhanced the COL1A1 promoter activity. These results suggest that the transcriptional activity of the human COL1A1 can be positively regulated by Sp1.
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- L Li
- Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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Chibazakura T, Kitajima S, Yonaha M, Yasukochi Y. Enhancement of bacterial transcription initiation in vitro by the 74 kDa subunit of human general transcription factor IIF (RAP74). BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1219:592-600. [PMID: 7948016 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(94)90217-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The human general transcription factor IIF (TFIIF) is required for an accurate transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II and shares some analogous features with the sigma subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase. As an attempt to analyze the function of TFIIF, we examined its effect on bacterial transcription in vitro. TFIIF significantly enhanced the initiation of transcription by the bacterial RNA polymerase while other general transcription factors, TATA-binding protein, TFIIB, and TFIIE, did not. The enhancement of the bacterial transcription was ascribed to the 74 kDa subunit of TFIIF (RAP74). RAP74 had an activity of enhancing the binding of the bacterial RNA polymerase to the promoter. The enhancing activity of RAP74 depended on a low molar ratio of the RNA polymerase to the template DNA. The action of RAP74 in the bacterial transcription may be related to a possible regulatory role of RAP74 in the eukaryotic transcription initiation.
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- T Chibazakura
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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Li Y, Mortensen R, Neer EJ. Regulation of alpha o expression by the 5'-flanking region of the alpha o gene. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47025-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Sorscher DH, Yang B, Bhaumik D, Trangas T, Philips AV, Chancellor KE, Coleman MS. Initiation of transcription at the human terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase gene promoter: a novel role for the TATA binding protein. Biochemistry 1994; 33:11025-32. [PMID: 8086419 DOI: 10.1021/bi00202a023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Control of initiation of transcription of the human terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) gene was investigated by using an in vitro transcription assay. The precise contribution of discrete basal promoter elements to transcription initiation was determined by testing deletion and substitution mutations. The primary element, contained within the region spanning -34 to -14 bp relative to the transcription start site, accounted for 80% of basal promoter activity. TdT promoter activity required the sequence ACCCT at -24 to -20 bp since a dramatic decrease in transcription initiation was observed after mutation of this sequence, whereas mutation of the adjacent sequence from -32 to -25 bp did not alter promoter activity. The secondary element contained sequences surrounding the transcription start site and had 20% of promoter activity. Deletion of both elements completely abolished transcription initiation. Initiator characteristics of the secondary element were revealed by using the in vitro assay: promoter sequences at the transcription start site were sufficient to direct accurate initiation at a single site. Mutation of the sequence GGGTG spanning the transcription start site resulted in loss of transcription initiation. Both the primary and secondary elements were nonhomologous to corresponding regions from the mouse TdT gene promoter. While the human basal promoter functioned in the absence of TATA consensus sequences or GC-rich SP1 binding sites, it was dependent on active TFIID. In contrast to other TATA-less promoters, purified TATA binding protein substituted for the TFIID complex and restored promoter activity to TFIID-inactivated nuclear extracts.
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- D H Sorscher
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7260
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Parvin J, Shykind B, Meyers R, Kim J, Sharp P. Multiple sets of basal factors initiate transcription by RNA polymerase II. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)32324-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Kontermann RE, Bautz EK. Nucleic acid-binding regions of the second-largest subunit of Drosophila RNA polymerase II identified by southwestern blotting. FEBS Lett 1994; 344:166-70. [PMID: 8187877 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00380-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Analysing overlapping bacterially expressed fragments of the second-largest subunit of Drosophila melanogaster RNA polymerase II in Southwestern DNA binding assays we have identified regions that have the potential to bind nucleic acids non-specifically. A region exhibiting strong DNA binding is located in the N-terminal part of the molecule (amino acids 357-504) and some weak DNA binding is observed for the C-terminal part (amino acids 860-1160). The non-specific DNA binding behavior of these regions is similar to that of the native enzyme. Most of the known mutations responsible for rifampicin resistance map to a region of the Escherichia coli beta subunit corresponding to the N-terminal nucleic acid-binding region, indirectly supporting the notion that this region participates in interaction with the RNA transcript in ternary complexes.
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- R E Kontermann
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Roy R, Schaeffer L, Humbert S, Vermeulen W, Weeda G, Egly J. The DNA-dependent ATPase activity associated with the class II basic transcription factor BTF2/TFIIH. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)36958-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Kamakaka RT, Bulger M, Kadonaga JT. Potentiation of RNA polymerase II transcription by Gal4-VP16 during but not after DNA replication and chromatin assembly. Genes Dev 1993; 7:1779-95. [PMID: 8370526 DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.9.1779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Purified, reconstituted chromatin templates containing regular, physiological nucleosome spacing were transcribed in vitro by RNA polymerase II along with the Gal4-VP16 activator. When Gal4-VP16 was prebound to DNA before reconstitution of either H1-deficient or H1-containing chromatin, the resulting templates were transcribed with a similar efficiency. Under such conditions, we observed long-range (1000 bp) activation of transcription in vitro with H1-containing chromatin, but not naked DNA templates. When Gal4-VP16 was added to preassembled chromatin, the H1-deficient chromatin was transcriptionally active, whereas the H1-containing chromatin, which possessed properties similar to native chromatin, was transcriptionally inert. We then mimicked DNA replication and chromatin assembly at a replication fork and found that Gal4-VP16 could potentiate transcription during, but not after, replication and assembly of histone H1-containing chromatin. These experiments provide biochemical data that support a DNA replication-dependent mechanism for reconfiguration of chromatin structure and activation of transcription by Gal4-VP16.
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- R T Kamakaka
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0347
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Thompson CM, Koleske AJ, Chao DM, Young RA. A multisubunit complex associated with the RNA polymerase II CTD and TATA-binding protein in yeast. Cell 1993; 73:1361-75. [PMID: 8324825 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90362-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We report genetic and biochemical evidence that the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) interacts with a large multisubunit complex that contains TATA-binding protein (TBP) and is an integral part of the transcription initiation complex. The isolation and characterization of extragenic suppressors of S. cerevisiae RNA polymerase II CTD truncation mutations led us to identify SRB2, SRB4, SRB5, and SRB6 as genes involved in CTD function in vivo. SRB2 was previously isolated and shown to encode a 23 kd TBP-binding protein. The four SRB proteins and a portion of cellular TBP are components of a high molecular weight multisubunit complex that is tightly bound to RNA polymerase II. This SRB-TBP complex binds specifically to recombinant CTD protein. In vitro transcription and template commitment assays confirm that SRB2 and SRB5 are components of a functional preinitiation complex and are required for efficient transcription initiation.
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- C M Thompson
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Massachusetts 02142
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Serizawa H, Conaway JW, Conaway RC. Phosphorylation of C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II is not required in basal transcription. Nature 1993; 363:371-4. [PMID: 8497323 DOI: 10.1038/363371a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Phosphorylation of the heptapeptide repeats in the C-terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II has been widely proposed as an essential step in transcription initiation on the basis of findings indicating (1) that the CTDs of RNA polymerase II molecules actively engaged in transcription are highly phosphorylated; (2) that polymerase molecules containing non-phosphorylated CTDs preferentially enter the preinitiation complex where they are subsequently phosphorylated; and (3) that essential initiation factors b from yeast, delta from rat, and BTF2(TFIIH) from human cells have closely associated CTD-kinase activities. Here we take advantage of a highly purified enzyme system which supports both CTD phosphorylation and basal transcription to test this hypothesis directly. Using the isoquinoline sulphonamide derivative H-8, which is a potent inhibitor of CTD kinase, we show that basal transcription occurs in the absence of CTD phosphorylation.
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- H Serizawa
- Program in Molecular and Cell Biology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City 73104
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Schaeffer L, Roy R, Humbert S, Moncollin V, Vermeulen W, Hoeijmakers JH, Chambon P, Egly JM. DNA repair helicase: a component of BTF2 (TFIIH) basic transcription factor. Science 1993; 260:58-63. [PMID: 8465201 DOI: 10.1126/science.8465201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 636] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The human BTF2 basic transcription factor (also called TFIIH), which is similar to the delta factor in rat and factor b in yeast, is required for class II gene transcription. A strand displacement assay was used to show that highly purified preparation of BTF2 had an adenosine triphosphate-dependent DNA helicase activity, in addition to the previously characterized carboxyl-terminal domain kinase activity. Amino acid sequence analysis of the tryptic digest generated from the 89-kilodalton subunit of BTF2 indicated that this polypeptide corresponded to the ERCC-3 gene product, a presumed helicase implicated in the human DNA excision repair disorders xeroderma pigmentosum and Cockayne's syndrome. These findings suggest that transcription and nucleotide excision repair may share common factors and hence may be considered to be functionally related.
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- L Schaeffer
- UPR 6520 (CNRS), Unité 184 (INSERM), Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France
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Molecular matchmakers are a class of proteins that use the energy released from the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate to cause a conformational change in one or both components of a DNA binding protein pair to promote formation of a metastable DNA-protein complex. After matchmaking the matchmaker dissociates from the complex, permitting the matched protein to engage in other protein-protein interactions to bring about the effector function. Matchmaking is most commonly used under circumstances that require targeted, high-avidity DNA binding without relying solely on sequence specificity. Molecular matchmaking is an extensively used mechanism in repair, replication, and transcription and most likely in recombination and transposition reactions, too.
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- A Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599
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- D Herschlag
- Department of Biochemistry, Beckman Center, Stanford University, California 94305-5307
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Kontermann RE, Kobor M, Bautz EK. Identification of a nucleic acid-binding region within the largest subunit of Drosophila melanogaster RNA polymerase II. Protein Sci 1993; 2:223-30. [PMID: 8443600 PMCID: PMC2142351 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560020211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The largest and the second-largest subunit of the multisubunit eukaryotic RNA polymerases are involved in interaction with the DNA template and the nascent RNA chain. Using Southwestern DNA-binding techniques and nitrocellulose filter binding assays of bacterially expressed fusion proteins, we have identified a region of the largest, 215-kDa, subunit of Drosophila RNA polymerase II that has the potential to bind nucleic acids nonspecifically. This nucleic acid-binding region is located between amino acid residues 309-384 and is highly conserved within the largest subunits of eukaryotic and bacterial RNA polymerases. A homology to a region of the DNA-binding cleft of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I involved in binding of the newly synthesized DNA duplex provides indirect evidence that the nucleic acid-binding region of the largest subunit participates in interaction with double-stranded nucleic acids during transcription. The nonspecific DNA-binding behavior of the region is similar to that observed for the native enzyme in nitrocellulose filter binding assays and that of the separated largest subunit in Southwestern assays. A high content of basic amino acid residues is consistent with the electrostatic nature of nonspecific DNA binding by RNA polymerases.
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- R E Kontermann
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Taggart AK, Fisher TS, Pugh BF. The TATA-binding protein and associated factors are components of pol III transcription factor TFIIIB. Cell 1992; 71:1015-28. [PMID: 1458533 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90396-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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RNA polymerases I, II, and III require the TATA-binding protein (TBP) to initiate promoter-specific transcription. We have separated HeLa TBP into four phosphocellulose fractions that elicit polymerase specificity in supplying TBP activity to TBP-depleted pol II and pol III transcription reactions. Polymerase specificity might arise in part through distinct TBP-associated factors (TAFs), which have recently been identified in pol I and II transcription. However, the requirement for pol III TAFs has not been established. Here we show that classical pol III transcription involves a minimum of two novel TAFs: TAF-172 and TAF-L. Not only does TAF-172 activate pol III transcription, but it also inhibits the binding of TBP to the TATA box, thereby repressing pol II transcription. The TBP-TAF-172-TAF-L complex can replace TFIIIB both in transcription reactions reconstituted with TFIIIC and in template commitment assays. Thus SL1, TFIID, and TFIIIB might be functionally similar TBP-TAF complexes that direct pol I, II, and III transcription, respectively.
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- A K Taggart
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802
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Sayre M, Tschochner H, Kornberg R. Reconstitution of transcription with five purified initiation factors and RNA polymerase II from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50101-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Purification and properties of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase II general initiation factor a. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50102-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Garrett K, Serizawa H, Hanley J, Bradsher J, Tsuboi A, Arai N, Yokota T, Arai K, Conaway R, Conaway J. The carboxyl terminus of RAP30 is similar in sequence to region 4 of bacterial sigma factors and is required for function. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35928-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Blissard GW, Kogan PH, Wei R, Rohrmann GF. A synthetic early promoter from a baculovirus: roles of the TATA box and conserved start site CAGT sequence in basal levels of transcription. Virology 1992; 190:783-93. [PMID: 1519359 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90916-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Many baculovirus early genes and insect genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II have a conserved transcription start site sequence (CAGT) located downstream of a consensus TATA box. To examine the functions and interactions of these two motifs in initiating accurately positioned basal transcription, a 43-nt synthetic promoter was synthesized from the TATA box and start site sequences of the gp64 early promoter from the Orgyia pseudotsugata multicapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (OpMNPV). The synthetic promoter initiated accurately and was also transactivated by the baculovirus transcriptional activator, IE1. To determine the roles of sequences within the 43-nt synthetic promoter, a series of linker-scanning and spacing mutations were analyzed for transcriptional activity, start site selection, and transactivation. Linker-scanning mutations were examined in vivo by transient expression and reporter gene assays. To examine transcription start site selection, promoter constructs were used for in vitro transcription in nuclear extracts from uninfected Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells. In vivo and in vitro analyses show that the TATA box, and not the start site CAGT, is the primary element controlling start site selection. Substitution of the conserved start site CAGT sequence resulted in a reduction of both reporter gene activity and in vitro transcripts, although transcripts initiated accurately. Data from linker-scanning and spacing mutations indicate that the conserved start site CAGT sequences are not required for accurate initiation but sequences at the start site play an important role in initiation efficiency.
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- G W Blissard
- Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1801
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We have isolated a cDNA encoding Drosophila transcription factor IIB (dTFIIB) and characterized the properties of recombinant dTFIIB with a reconstituted in vitro transcription system derived from Drosophila embryos. Purified, recombinant dTFIIB is fully active at a concentration of one molecule per template DNA. With different promoters, the transcriptional activity of dTFIIB was similar but not identical to that of human TFIIB, which suggests that there may be variations in the mechanisms by which TFIIB functions in transcription. We have also found that recombinant dTFIIB suppressed nonspecific initiation of transcription by RNA polymerase II by a mechanism that appears to involve direct interaction between TFIIB and the polymerase. Addition of excess dTFIIB to transcription reactions resulted in promoter-specific repression of transcription. These experiments have led to the hypothesis that TFIIB interacts with a basal transcription factor that is required for transcription of some, but not all, genes and that the presence of excess dTFIIB results in sequestration of the promoter-specific basal factor to prevent its assembly into a productive transcription complex. Excess dTFIIB did not, however, affect the ability of either GAL4-VP16 or Sp1 to stimulate transcription. These data indicate that in contrast to current models, GAL4 derivatives do not activate transcription by increasing the rate of assembly of TFIIB into the transcription complex.
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- S L Wampler
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Eisenmann DM, Arndt KM, Ricupero SL, Rooney JW, Winston F. SPT3 interacts with TFIID to allow normal transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes Dev 1992; 6:1319-31. [PMID: 1628834 DOI: 10.1101/gad.6.7.1319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SPT15, which encodes the TATA-binding protein TFIID, have been shown to cause pleiotropic phenotypes and to lead to changes in transcription in vivo. Here, we report the cloning and analysis of one such mutation, spt15-21, which causes a single-amino-acid substitution in a conserved residue of TFIID. Surprisingly, the spt15-21 mutation does not affect the stability of TFIID, its ability to bind to DNA or to support basal transcription in vitro, or the ability of an upstream activator to function in vivo. To study further the spt15-21 defect, extragenic suppressors of this mutation were isolated and analyzed. All of the extragenic suppressors of spt15-21 are mutations in the previously identified SPT3 gene. Suppression of spt15-21 by these spt3 mutations is allele-specific, suggesting that TFIID and SPT3 interact and that spt15-21 impairs this interaction in some way. Consistent with these genetic data, coimmunoprecipitation experiments demonstrate that the TFIID and SPT3 proteins are physically associated in yeast extracts. Taken together, these results suggest that SPT3 is a TFIID-associated protein, required for TFIID to function at particular promoters in vivo.
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- D M Eisenmann
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Mechanism of assembly of the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex. Transcription factors delta and epsilon promote stable binding of the transcription apparatus to the initiator element. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50211-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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