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Biochemical and genetic characterization of the dominant positive element driving transcription ofthe yeast TBP-encoding gene, SPT15.

Schroeder SC, Weil PA
Nucleic Acids Res. 1998 26 (18): 4186-95

PMID: 9722639 · PMCID: PMC147844 · DOI:10.1093/nar/26.18.4186

We previously demonstrated that a combination of both positive and negative cis -acting upstream elements control the transcription of the gene encoding TBP ( SPT15 ) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . One of these elements found in that study, resident between 5' flanking sequences -147 and -128 , and termed PED (for positive element distal), was found to play an essential positive role in driving transcription of the gene encoding TBP. In this report, we map at nucleotide-level resolution, the critical residues which comprise PED, purify and sequence the protein that binds to it and determine that this PED binding factor is Abf1p, an abundant yeast protein previously broadly implicated in both gene regulation and DNA replication. In the case of the TBP-encoding gene, however, Abf1p works through the PED element which is a non-consensus binding site. Based upon the work of others, the PED-variant ABF1 site would be predicted to be a very poor binding site for this factor yet Abf1p binds PED and a consensus ABF1 site with comparable affinity. These results are discussed in light of the broader context of Abf1p-mediated gene regulation.

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Base Sequence beta-Galactosidase Cell Cycle Proteins Chromatography, Affinity DNA-Binding Proteins DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases DNA Probes Fungal Proteins Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal Kinetics Molecular Sequence Data Mutagenesis, Site-Directed Recombinant Fusion Proteins Saccharomyces cerevisiae Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins TATA-Box Binding Protein TATA Box Transcription, Genetic Transcription Factors

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