A cell-specific factor represses stimulation of transcription in vitro by transcriptional enhancer factor 1.
Transcription in HeLa cell extracts in vitro was stimulated 8- to 10-fold by a recombinant chimera, GAL-TEF-1, consisting of the DNA-binding domain of GAL4 and the activation function of the HeLa cell activator TEF-1. In contrast, only a 2- to 3-fold stimulation was obtained with GAL-TEF-1 in extracts from BJA-B lymphoid cells. Stimulation by GAL-TEF-1 in BJA-B extracts was dramatically increased by the addition of immunopurified HeLa cell TFIID, suggesting that BJA-B TFIID lacks or contains lower quantities of a TATA-binding-protein-associated factor(s) required for the activity of the TEF-1 activation function. However, chromatography, immunopurification, and transcriptional reconstitution experiments indicated that BJA-B extracts did not lack the previously identified TATA-binding-protein-associated factors required for TEF-1 activity but rather contained a negatively acting factor(s) which inhibited transactivation by GAL-TEF-1. These results indicate that the relative lack of activity of the TEF-1 activation function in vitro in BJA-B cell extracts does not result from the absence of positively acting factors from the presence of a cell-specific negatively acting factor(s).
Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Eucaryotes du CNRS, Unité 184 de Biologie Moléculaire et de Génie Génétique de l'INSERM, Institut de Chimie Biologique, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
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D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D000091262:TEA Domain Transcription Factors; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D015533:Transcriptional Activation
D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C052130:GAL4 protein, S cerevisiae; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D000091262:TEA Domain Transcription Factors; C057182:TEAD1 protein, human; D014157:Transcription Factors