title: The mammalian upstream element factor recognizes two sites in the adenovirus type 2 IVa2-major late promoter intergenic region and stimulates both promoters.
abstract: The adenovirus type 2 major late upstream element factor (UEF) recognizes two similar elements that lie between the major late promoter (MLP) and IVa2 promoter cap sites (the previously characterized MLP-UE from nucleotides -49 to -67 and the IVa2-UE from nucleotides -98 to -122). DNase I footprinting and gel retention assays showed that the UEF has a lower affinity for the IVa2-UE than for the MLP-UE. In vitro transcription experiments demonstrated first that the IVa2 promoter, which lacks a consensus TATA box, may work, as does the MLP, in the absence of its proximal upstream element and second that the IVa2-UE stimulated IVa2 transcription two- to threefold, as MLP-UE did for the MLP. In addition, we demonstrated that the more distal upstream element has a weak stimulatory effect on transcription of both promoters.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Institut de Chimie Biologique, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Moncollin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kempf
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Egly
mesh_terms: D000260:Adenoviruses, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D005814:Genes, Viral; D006367:HeLa Cells; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011485:Protein Binding; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors