title: Isolation and DNA-binding characteristics of a protein involved in transcription activation of two divergently transcribed, essential yeast genes.
abstract: We have identified a protein, BAF1, which has two oppositely oriented, partially overlapping binding sites within a symmetrical sequence located midway between and upstream of the divergently transcribed YPT1 and TUB2 genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The 120 kd BAF1 protein was purified to near homogeneity and used to delineate the two binding sites and to identify apparent protein contact sites by the missing contact technique, methylation interference and by site-directed mutagenesis. The BAF1-recognition sequence contains a conserved TCN7ACG element recently identified at autonomously replicating sequences (ARS) and in the 5' and 3' flanking region of other yeast genes. The symmetrical sequence of the YPT1/TUB2 intergene region seems not to be involved in DNA replication but activates transcription in an orientation-independent fashion.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Genetics, Göttingen, FRG.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Halfter
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Winnacker
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gallwitz
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008745:Methylation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors