title: Constitutive binding of yeast heat shock factor to DNA in vivo.
abstract: We measured the binding of yeast heat shock factor (HSF) to DNA in vivo by using an interference assay in which HSF excludes GAL4 from a synthetic promoter element containing overlapping binding sites for each protein. The results show that HSF binds to DNA in unstressed cells and that binding is not sufficient for transcriptional activation.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England.
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Jakobsen
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Pelham
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins