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Liu Y, Cao Y, Liang D, Gao Y, Xia T, Robertson ES, Lan K. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus RTA activates the processivity factor ORF59 through interaction with RBP-Jkappa and a cis-acting RTA responsive element. Virology 2008; 380:264-75. [PMID: 18786687 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2008] [Revised: 07/31/2008] [Accepted: 08/07/2008] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV8) displays two life modes, latency and lytic reactivation in the infected host cells which are equally important for virus mediated pathogenesis. During latency only a small number of genes are expressed. Under specific conditions, KSHV can undergo lytic replication with the production of viral progeny. One immediate-early gene RTA, encoded by open reading frame 50 of KSHV, has been shown to play a critical role in switching the viral latency to lytic reactivation. Over-expression of RTA from a heterologous promoter is sufficient for driving KSHV lytic replication which results in production of viral progeny. In the present study, we show that RTA can activate the expression of the ORF59 which encodes the processivity factor essential for DNA replication during lytic reactivation. We also show that RTA regulates ORF59 promoter through interaction with RBP-Jkappa as well as a cis-acting RTA responsive element within the promoter. In the context of KSHV infected cells, the upregulation of ORF59 is a direct response to RTA expression. Taken together, our findings provide new evidence to explain the mechanism by which RTA can regulate its downstream gene ORF59, further increasing our understanding of the biology of KSHV lytic replication.
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- Yunhua Liu
- Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 225 South Chongqing Road, Shanghai 200025, The People's Republic of China
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Hsu SF, Lin JG, Liu HJ, Lai IL, Wu SL, Hsiangt CY, Hot TY. Activation of activator protein-1 in cells exposed to electrical stimulation of various parameters used in electroacupuncture therapy. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CHINESE MEDICINE 2004; 31:967-75. [PMID: 14992548 DOI: 10.1142/s0192415x03001508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of electrical stimulation on activator protein-1 (AP-1) in recombinant liver cells. In order to elucidate the molecular effects of electrical stimulation on cells, AP-1 expression was detected by a luciferase assay. The parameters used were taken from clinical electroacupuncture (EA) therapy as follows: biphasic rectangular symmetrical pulses (frequency: 2, 10 and 100 Hz; pulse width: 50, 80, 130 and 250 microsec; intensity: 1, 2, 5 and 10 mA; time: 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes). S (10% fetal bovine serum in medium), SF (serum free medium) and 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) treatment represented the experimental, negative and positive groups, respectively. We found that electrical stimulation with 10 Hz, a pulse width of 130 microsec, and a duration of 30 minutes gave a significant increase in AP-1 activity. In contrast, the intensity of the stimulation had no significant effect on AP-1 activity. In conclusion, our data suggest that electrical stimulation with an appropriate frequency, duration and pulse width could cause an increase in AP-1 activity in cells.
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- Sheng-Feng Hsu
- Acupuncture Department, China Medical University Hospital, School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
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The events leading to transcription of eukaryotic protein-coding genes culminate in the positioning of RNA polymerase II at the correct initiation site. The core promoter, which can extend ~35 bp upstream and/or downstream of this site, plays a central role in regulating initiation. Specific DNA elements within the core promoter bind the factors that nucleate the assembly of a functional preinitiation complex and integrate stimulatory and repressive signals from factors bound at distal sites. Although core promoter structure was originally thought to be invariant, a remarkable degree of diversity has become apparent. This article reviews the structural and functional diversity of the RNA polymerase II core promoter.
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- Stephen T Smale
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1662, USA.
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Cekan SZ. Genes and transcription factors, including nuclear receptors: methods of studying their interactions. THE JOURNAL OF LABORATORY AND CLINICAL MEDICINE 2002; 140:215-27. [PMID: 12389019 DOI: 10.1067/mlc.2002.127370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Sten Z Cekan
- Department of Woman and Child Health, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska Hospital L5, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Li XY, Bhaumik SR, Zhu X, Li L, Shen WC, Dixit BL, Green MR. Selective recruitment of TAFs by yeast upstream activating sequences. Implications for eukaryotic promoter structure. Curr Biol 2002; 12:1240-4. [PMID: 12176335 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00932-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The general transcription factor TFIID is composed of the TATA box binding protein (TBP) and multiple TBP-associated factors (TAFs). In yeast, promoters can be grouped into two classes based on the involvement of TAFs. TAF-dependent (TAF(dep)) promoters require TAFs for transcription, and TBP and TAFs are present at comparable levels on these promoters. TAF-independent (TAF(ind)) promoters do not require TAFs for activity, and TAFs are either absent or present at levels far below those of TBP on these promoters. Here, we demonstrate that the upstream activating sequence (UAS) mediates the selective recruitment of TAFs to TAF(dep) promoters. A TAF(ind) UAS fails to recruit TAFs and to direct efficient transcription when inserted upstream of a TAF(dep) core promoter. This transcriptional defect can be overcome by a potent activator, indicating that a strong activation domain can compensate for the absence of TAFs on a TAF(dep) core promoter. Our results reveal a requirement for compatibility between the UAS and core promoter and thus help explain previous reports that only certain yeast UAS-core promoter combinations and mammalian enhancer-promoter combinations are efficiently transcribed. The differential recruitment of TAFs by UASs provides strong evidence for the proposal that in vivo TAFs are the targets of some, but not all, activators.
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- Xiao-Yong Li
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Programs in Gene Function and Expression and Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01605, USA
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Hsiang CY, Lai IL, Chao DC, Ho TY. Differential regulation of activator protein 1 activity by glycyrrhizin. Life Sci 2002; 70:1643-56. [PMID: 11991252 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(01)01556-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Glycyrrhizin, a major component of Glycyrrhiza uralensis (licorice) root, is a saponin and exhibits a number of pharmacological effects, including anti-inflammation, anti-ulcer, anti-allergy, and anticarcinogenesis. Activator protein I (AP-1), a nuclear transcription factor, consists of Jun/Fos heterodimers or Jun/Jun homodimers, and blocking of tumor promoter-induced AP-1 activity could inhibit induced cellular transformation. In order to elucidate the molecular mechanism of glycyrrhizin-induced anticarcinogenesis, effect of glycyrrhizin on the AP-1 activity in untreated and tumor promoter-12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)-treated conditions was analyzed in this study. Glycyrrhizin induced the AP-1/TATA reporter activity in a dose-dependent fashion, which was judged by chloramphenicol acetyltransferase assay and electrophoretic mobility-shift assay. Similar results were observed in HepG2 and Vero cells, suggested that glycyrrhizin effect was cell type-independent. In addition, the cis element responsible for glycyrrhizin activity was AP-1 responsive element. Further analysis indicated that glycyrrhizin exhibited a different regulation on the AP-1 activity in untreated and TPA-treated cells. Glycyrrhizin induced the AP-1 activity in untreated cells, while it inhibited the TPA-induced AP-1 activation in TPA-treated cells. These results provide insight into the biological actions of glycyrrhizin and the molecular basis for the development of new chemoprotective agents for cancer.
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- Chien-Yun Hsiang
- Department of Microbiology, China Medical College, Taichun, Taiwan
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Yeh JR, Hsu LC, Chung BC. Sp1-like proteins function in the transcription of human ferredoxin genes. J Biomed Sci 2000; 7:144-51. [PMID: 10754389 DOI: 10.1007/bf02256621] [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: 11/28/2022] Open
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We characterized a regulatory element located in the -76 to -62 region of the human ferredoxin gene. This region bound to Sp1-like proteins with low affinity, as shown using electrophoretic mobility shift, competition, antibody binding, and Southwestern experiments. The similarity of the regulatory element to Sp1 extends beyond its DNA-binding domain, as cloned Sp1 functioned equally well when fused to a peptide that bound to an irrelevant site. The function of these Sp1-binding sites is mediated through the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) signaling pathway, because reporter genes downstream of the Sp1-binding sites were not activated in a PKA-deficient cell line. Transfection of the catalytic subunit of PKA restored activated transcription. Similar Sp1-binding sites identified in the CYP11A1 and CYP21 genes also controlled cAMP-dependent transcription of the reporter gene. Our finding of the function of Sp1-like proteins in steroidogenic gene transcription adds one more role Sp1 plays in controlling physiological events.
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- J R Yeh
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Perera LP. The TATA motif specifies the differential activation of minimal promoters by varicella zoster virus immediate-early regulatory protein IE62. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:487-96. [PMID: 10617643 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.1.487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The immediate-early IE62 protein of varicella zoster virus is an acidic transcriptional activator capable of up-regulating many viral and cellular promoters with varying efficiencies. We demonstrate that, in the context of a minimal promoter, a TATA element is both sufficient and essential for IE62-mediated transcriptional activation. Differential levels of activation by IE62 in this context were conferred by a panel of naturally occurring sequence variations within the TATA motif itself. TATA motif-specific, differential induction was not obtained when the IE62 acidic activation domain was targeted as a GAL4 fusion protein to the same panel. The prototype acidic transactivator, VP16 of herpes simplex virus, failed to discriminate between these different TATA motifs when they were placed into an appropriate responsive promoter context. Nonetheless, a chimeric IE62 polypeptide substituted with the VP16 activation domain retained the ability to differentially modulate minimal promoters with various TATA motifs. Taken together with its binding to TATA box-binding protein (TBP) and transcription factor IIB in vitro, we suggest that IE62 has the unusual ability to achieve differential levels of transcriptional activation through different TATA motifs, which may be accomplished either directly or indirectly by recognizing conformational variations in DNA-bound TBP, TBP-transcription factor IIA/B, or TBP-TATA-associated factor complexes.
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- L P Perera
- Metabolism Branch, Division of Clinical Sciences, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Expression of the CYP11A1 (SCC) genes, which encode the enzyme important for the first step of steroid biosynthesis, occurs in the adrenal gland and gonads, and is stimulated by cAMP. Transfection of serial deletions of the SCC promoter, which drives reporter gene expression, showed that a minimal promoter containing only the TATA box could direct cAMP-dependent transcription. Transcription factor SF1, which binds to a site next to the TATA box, can stimulate basal transcription but not cAMP response, either in adrenal cell lines or in COS-1 co-transfected with the SF1 expression plasmid. These data lead to the conclusion that the minimal promoter containing only the TATA box can drive cell type-specific, cAMP-dependent transcription. Additional experiments replacing the TATA sequence of SCC with other TATA sequences suggested that the TATA sequence itself is important for this cAMP-dependent transcription.
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- I C Guo
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
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Singh U, Rogers JB. The novel core promoter element GAAC in the hgl5 gene of Entamoeba histolytica is able to direct a transcription start site independent of TATA or initiator regions. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:21663-8. [PMID: 9705300 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.34.21663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Entamoeba histolytica, an enteric protozoa, is the third leading parasitic cause of death worldwide. Investigation of the transcriptional machinery of this eukaryotic pathogen has revealed an unusual core promoter structure that consists of nonconsensus TATA and initiator regions and a novel third conserved core promoter sequence, the GAAC element. Mutation of this region in the hgl5 promoter decreases reporter gene expression and alters the transcription start site. Using positional analysis of this element, we have now demonstrated that it is able to direct a new transcription start site, 2-7 bases downstream of itself, independent of TATA and Inr regions. The GAAC region was also shown to control the rate of transcription via nuclear run on analysis and an amebic nuclear protein was demonstrated to specifically interact with this sequence. This is the first description in the eukaryotic literature of a third conserved core promoter element, distinct from TATA or initiator regions, that is able to direct a transcription start site. We have formulated two models for the role of the GAAC region: (i) the GAAC-binding protein is a part of the TFIID complex and (ii) the GAAC-binding protein functions to "tether" TATA-binding protein to the TATA box.
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- U Singh
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
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Martins-Green M, Hanafusa H. The 9E3/CEF4 gene and its product the chicken chemotactic and angiogenic factor (cCAF): potential roles in wound healing and tumor development. Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 1997; 8:221-32. [PMID: 9462487 DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6101(97)00016-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The 9E3/CEF4 gene was one of the first inducible chemokine genes to be discovered. Its product, the chicken chemotactic and angiogenic factor (cCAF), is highly homologous to IL-8. It is expressed at low levels in tissues of mesenchymal origin but is highly expressed shortly after wounding and persists throughout the period of granulation tissue formation. It also is highly expressed around Rous sarcoma virus-induced tumors. The most potent natural stimulator of this gene is thrombin and in vivo cCAF is chemotactic for monocytes and lymphocytes and is angiogenic. The chemotactic properties can be potentially important in the inflammatory response and in the deterrence of tumors, whereas the angiogenic properties could be important in wound repair and tumor growth. The very rapid stimulation of 9E3 by thrombin and fast synthesis and secretion of cCAF suggest that this is a new type of stress response protein whose rapid production is designed to protect tissues rather than individual cells.
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- M Martins-Green
- Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521, USA.
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Shen WC, Green MR. Yeast TAF(II)145 functions as a core promoter selectivity factor, not a general coactivator. Cell 1997; 90:615-24. [PMID: 9288742 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80523-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In yeast, TATA box binding protein associated factors (TAF(II)s) are dispensable for transcription of most genes. Here we use differential display to identify a small subset of yeast genes whose transcription in vivo requires yTAF(II)145. Promoter-mapping studies reveal, unexpectedly, that the region of a gene that renders it yTAF(II)145-dependent is not the upstream activating sequence, which contains the activator-binding sites, but rather the core promoter. In fact, a core promoter requiring yTAF(II)145 retained that requirement when its transcription was directed by several unrelated upstream activating sequences and even in the absence of an activator. Taken together, our results indicate that yTAF(II)145 functions in recognition and selection of core promoters by a mechanism not involving upstream activators.
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- W C Shen
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01605, USA
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A number of hormones and growth factors have been shown to stimulate target cells via second messenger pathways that in turn regulate the phosphorylation of specific nuclear factors. The second messenger cyclic AMP, for example, regulates a striking number of physiologic processes, including intermediary metabolism, cellular proliferation, and neuronal signaling, by altering basic patterns of gene expression. Our understanding of cyclic AMP signaling in the nucleus has expanded considerably over the past decade, owing in large part to the characterization of cyclic AMP-responsive promoter elements, transcription factors that bind them, and signal-dependent coactivators that mediate target gene induction. More importantly, these studies have revealed new insights into biological problems as diverse as biological clocks and long-term memory. The purpose of this review is to describe the components of the cyclic AMP response unit and to analyze how these components cooperate to induce target gene expression in response to hormonal stimulation.
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- M Montminy
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Yanai K, Nibu Y, Murakami K, Fukamizu A. A cis-acting DNA element located between TATA box and transcription initiation site is critical in response to regulatory sequences in human angiotensinogen gene. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:15981-6. [PMID: 8663141 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.27.15981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The promoter of the human angiotensinogen (hAG) gene functioned in its own core promoter context but not when replaced with simian virus 40 (SV40) core promoter, suggesting the presence of a transcriptionally important cis-acting sequence. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated that a ubiquitously expressed nuclear factor, AGCF1, bound to AGCE1 (hAG core promoter element 1; positions -25 to -1) located between the TATA box and transcription initiation site. Substitution mutation in AGCE1 which disrupted AGCF1 binding affected the promoter activity more severely than a nonsense mutation of the hAG TATA sequences did. When AGCE1 was placed at the downstream of SV40 core promoter, the responsiveness to hAG upstream region was significantly restored. Furthermore, mutation and in vivo competition experiments suggested that AGCF1 acts as a critical regulator of hAG transcription by mediating the activity of the hAG upstream and downstream enhancer elements. DNase I footprinting and UV cross-linking analyses showed that AGCF1 with apparent molecular masses of 31, 33, and 43 kDa as the components protected the region from -26 to -9 which partially overlapped with the TATA box consensus sequences. These findings indicate that AGCE1 in addition to the TATA box plays a key role in mediating the hAG regulatory elements.
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- K Yanai
- Institute of Applied Biochemistry, Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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Garcia JA, Gaynor RB. The human immunodeficiency virus type-1 long terminal repeat and its role in gene expression. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 49:157-96. [PMID: 7863006 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60050-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J A Garcia
- Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235
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Takiya S, Suzuki Y. Role of the Core Promoter for the Preferential Transcription of Fibroin Gene in the Posterior Silk Gland Extract. (transcription/core promoter/fibroin gene/initiator/DNase I footprint). Dev Growth Differ 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.1993.00311.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Brandl C, Martens J, Liaw P, Furlanetto A, Wobbe C. TATA-binding protein activates transcription when upstream of a GCN4-binding site in a novel yeast promoter. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)36780-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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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Hoopes B, LeBlanc J, Hawley D. Kinetic analysis of yeast TFIID-TATA box complex formation suggests a multi-step pathway. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49944-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Regulation of expression of protein-encoding genes in eukaryotes is frequently mediated by sequence-specific transcription factors that control the activities of the basal factors and RNA polymerase II. Basal factors have been considered to be essential for all polymerase II promoters. Studies of the basal factor requirements for transcription from the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene (IgH) core promoter and the adenovirus major late gene core promoter (MLP) suggest that this paradigm is too simple. Basal transcription from the IgH promoter was reconstituted by TFIID, TFIIB, TFIIF, and polymerase, whereas basal transcription from the MLP is highly dependent upon TFIIE in addition to the above factors. Two novel protein activities, referred to as 700 kd and 90 kd, further stimulated the basal reaction from the MLP. Thus, these data indicate that not all basal factors are in fact general.
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- J D Parvin
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02138
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Bungert J, Kober I, Düring F, Seifart KH. Transcription factor eUSF is an essential component of isolated transcription complexes on the duck histone H5 gene and it mediates the interaction of TFIID with a TATA-deficient promoter. J Mol Biol 1992; 223:885-98. [PMID: 1538403 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90250-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We analysed the formation of transcription complexes on the H5 gene of the duck which is efficiently transcribed in HeLa cell extracts in vitro. Upon deletion of its TATA-box, the fidelity of transcription of the H5 gene is maintained, although the efficiency of this process is significantly reduced. Selective inactivation of TFIID in whole cell extracts and reconstitution experiments either with human recombinant TFIID or a protein fraction from duck erythrocytes enriched in TFIID show that transcription of the TATA-less H5 promoter nevertheless requires the protein TFIID. Screening of promoter elements which could indirectly mediate the interaction of TFIID with a TATA-less H5 promoter led to the identification of a sequence element located about 40 base-pairs downstream from the H5 initiation site that shows partial homology to the USF consensus sequence. In electrophoretic mobility shift and footprinting studies we demonstrated a specific interaction of the erythroid factor USF (eUSF) with this downstream element. By isolating active transcription complexes we found that all components required for correct initiation remain stably associated with the H5 promoter irrespective of the presence or absence of the TATA box. Moreover, the reconstitution of eUSF and TFIID-depleted transcription complexes with purified protein fractions demonstrate that not only TFIID but also eUSF essentially participates in complex formation even on H5 promoter mutations lacking the TATA-box. Mutual interactions between eUSF and TFIID appear to stabilize the binding of TFIID in the presence or absence of its proper binding site.
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- J Bungert
- Institut für Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung, Marburg/Lahnberge, Germany
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Identification of novel factors which bind specifically to the core promoter of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54436-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Morris GF, Mathews MB. The adenovirus E1A transforming protein activates the proliferating cell nuclear antigen promoter via an activating transcription factor site. J Virol 1991; 65:6397-406. [PMID: 1682506 PMCID: PMC250676 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.12.6397-6406.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The transforming region of adenovirus (E1) stimulates expression of a reporter construct linked to the promoter for the human proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) gene in a cotransfection assay (G. F. Morris and M. B. Mathews, J. Biol. Chem. 264:13856-13864, 1989). The major products of the E1 region were assessed individually for their contribution to transactivation of the PCNA promoter. The E1A 13S and 12S products and the E1B 19-kDa product elevated expression from the PCNA promoter, whereas the E1B 55-kDa product did not. Induction of the PCNA promoter by E1A differed from transcriptional activation of the adenovirus E3 promoter in that the PCNA promoter is activated by the E1A 12S product whereas the E3 promoter is repressed; furthermore, the PCNA promoter is activated upon E1A overexpression, whereas the E3 promoter responds less well to high amounts of E1A. A site for the activating transcription factor ATF located approximately 50 nucleotides upstream from the transcription initiation site in the PCNA promoter mediates a positive response to the E1A 12S and 13S products.
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- G F Morris
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724
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Workman JL, Taylor IC, Kingston RE, Roeder RG. Control of class II gene transcription during in vitro nucleosome assembly. Methods Cell Biol 1991; 35:419-47. [PMID: 1779863 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(08)60582-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- J L Workman
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114
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Pellman D, McLaughlin ME, Fink GR. TATA-dependent and TATA-independent transcription at the HIS4 gene of yeast. Nature 1990; 348:82-5. [PMID: 2234066 DOI: 10.1038/348082a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Two systems of transcription factors stimulate expression of the HIS4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. High-level transcription induced by amino-acid starvation is mediated by Gcn4(ref.1) and basal transcription is mediated jointly by the factors Bas1 and Bas2 (Pho2). We now show that wild-type Gcn4 requires the TATA element for correct messenger RNA start-site selection, but Gcn4 derivatives with deletions in the activation domain activate HIS4 transcription at the correct mRNA start site (I) in the absence of the TATA element. Gcn4 derivatives that activate TATA-independent transcription show low levels of activation. Similarly, we find that low levels of transcription by Bas1/Bas2 are TATA-independent, whereas high levels are TATA-dependent. These results show that the HIS4 TATA element is required for mRNA start-site selection only under conditions of high-level transcription.
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- D Pellman
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02142
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A duplicated locus encoding the major heat shock-induced protein HSP70 is located in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class III region 92 kilobases (kb) telomeric to the C2 gene. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the two intronless genes, HSP70-1 and HSP70-2, has shown that they encode an identical protein product of 641 amino acids. A third intronless gene, HSP70-Hom, has also been identified 4 kb telomeric to the HSP70-1 gene. This encodes a more basic protein of 641 amino acids which has 90% sequence similarity with HSP70-1. In order to investigate the expression of the three (MHC)-linked HSP70 genes individually by northern blot analysis, we have isolated locus-specific probes from the 3' untranslated regions of the genes. The HSP70-1 and HSP70-2 genes have been shown to be expressed at high levels as a approximately 2.4 kb mRNA in cells heat-shocked at 42 degrees C. HSP70-1 is also expressed constitutively at very low levels. The HSP70-Hom gene, which has no heat shock consensus sequence in its 5' flanking sequence, is expressed as a approximately 3 kb mRNA at low levels both constitutively and following heat shock.
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- C M Milner
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, England
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The progesterone receptor can regulate transcription in the absence of a functional TATA box element. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44814-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Morris GF, Mathews MB. Analysis of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen promoter and its response to adenovirus early region 1. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)46196-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Gasch A, Hoffmann A, Horikoshi M, Roeder RG, Chua NH. Arabidopsis thaliana contains two genes for TFIID. Nature 1990; 346:390-4. [PMID: 2197561 DOI: 10.1038/346390a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The general transcription initiation factor TFIID plays a primary part in the activation of eukaryotic genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II. Binding of TFIID to the TATA box initiates the assembly of other general transcription factors as well as RNA polymerase II at the promoter resulting in a preinitiation complex capable of accurate transcription initiation in vitro. Human TFIID has been shown to interact with various regulatory factors. The observation that stimulation of transcription by different trans-acting factors is mediated through distinct TATA elements led to the suggestion that different types of TFIID may exist in yeast, humans and plants. Here we report the cloning and characterization of two distinct TFIID complementary DNA clones from Arabidopsis thaliana. Furthermore, we have found that TFIID from Arabidopsis and other organisms shows homology to helix-loop-helix proteins.
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- A Gasch
- Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 1021-6399
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