title: Intracellular association of the protein product of the c-myc oncogene with the TATA-binding protein.
abstract: The c-myc proto-oncogene encodes nuclear phosphoproteins that bind DNA in a sequence-specific fashion and appear to function as transcriptional activators. Here we demonstrate that a 40-kDa nuclear protein coimmunoprecipitated with c-Myc specifically when nuclear proteins, extracted from nuclei of exponentially growing murine B-lymphoma WEHI 231 cells by using procedures for preparation of trans-acting factors, were reacted with anti-c-Myc antibodies made against different regions of the c-Myc protein. In contrast, preparation of nuclear lysates under denaturing conditions significantly reduced this coprecipitation. Upon incubation of WEHI 231 cells with the reversible chemical cross-linking agent dithiobis(succinimidyl propionate), the 40-kDa protein could be cross-linked to c-Myc protein intracellularly. Identification of the 40-kDa protein as the TATA-binding protein (TBP) of the TFIID transcription initiation complex was made by comigration and V-8 protease mapping, which yielded identical peptide fragments upon digestion of the 40-kDa protein and material immunoprecipitated with an anti-TBP specific antibody. Furthermore, in vitro-translated TBP bound to the amino-terminal portion of c-Myc. Column chromatography of cross-linked nuclear proteins showed TBP to be in a large-molecular-weight complex with c-Myc, consistent with a transcription initiation complex. These results indicate that intracellularly, c-Myc interacts with TBP, suggesting a mechanism of interaction of this oncoprotein with the basal transcription machinery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts 02118.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maheswaran
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Sonenshein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D016259:Genes, myc; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell; D051379:Mice; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D016385:TATA Box; D035181:TATA-Box Binding Protein; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D016271:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc; D035181:TATA-Box Binding Protein; D014157:Transcription Factors