title: Members of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily interact with TFIIB (S300-II).
abstract: The S300-II factor was discovered as an activator of ovalbumin gene transcription with the chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter-transcription factor (COUP-TF, Sagami, I., Tsai, S. Y., Wang, H., Tsai, M.-J., and O'Malley, B. W. (1986) Mol. Cell. Biol. 6, 4259-4267). Although S300-II does not bind DNA selectively, it stabilizes the binding of COUP-TF to its ciselement (Tsai, S. Y., Sagami, I., Wang, H., Tsai, M.-J., and O'Malley, B. W. (1987) Cell 50, 701-709). Purified S300-II is also required for steroid receptor-activated transcription. Cloning and sequencing of S300-II showed that it is the general transcription factor TFIIB. Specific protein-protein interactions between recombinant S300-II/TFIIB and three members of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily, COUP-TF, estrogen receptor, and progesterone receptor, indicate that S300-II/TFIIB is one of the targets of these transactivators. Interestingly, a truncated estrogen receptor construct containing only the N-terminal transcription activation function 1 did not interact with S300-II/TFIIB in our assay, revealing that individual transcription activation functions of a single steroid hormone receptor may contact different targets. Demonstration of a direct association of S300-II/TFIIB and COUP-TF, independent of additional "adaptor" proteins, suggests that members of the steroid hromone receptor superfamily facilitate the transcription of activated genes at least in part via protein-protein interactions with the general transcription factor TFIIB.
authors.affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Ing
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Beekman
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: O'Malley
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D011987:Receptors, Steroid / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D035581:Transcription Factor TFIIB; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
chemical_list: D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D011960:Receptors, Estrogen; D011987:Receptors, Steroid; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D035581:Transcription Factor TFIIB; D014157:Transcription Factors; D005982:Glutathione Transferase