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Mol Cell Biol. 1993 November; 13(11): 6723-6732

Function of the growth-regulated transcription initiation factor TIF-IA in initiation complex formation at the murine ribosomal gene promoter.

Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.

ABSTRACT

Alterations in the rate of cell proliferation are accompanied by changes in the transcription of rRNA genes. In mammals, this growth-dependent regulation of transcription of genes coding for rRNA (rDNA) is due to reduction of the amount or activity of an essential transcription factor, called TIF-IA. Extracts prepared from quiescent cells lack this factor activity and, therefore, are transcriptionally inactive. We have purified TIF-IA from exponentially growing cells and have shown that it is a polypeptide with a molecular mass of 75 kDa which exists as a monomer in solution. Using a reconstituted transcription system consisting of purified transcription factors, we demonstrate that TIF-IA is a bona fide transcription initiation factor which interacts with RNA polymerase I. Preinitiation complexes can be assembled in the absence of TIF-IA, but formation of the first phosphodiester bonds of nascent rRNA is precluded. After initiation, TIF-IA is liberated from the initiation complex and facilitates transcription from templates bearing preinitiation complexes which lack TIF-IA. Despite the pronounced species specificity of class I gene transcription, this growth-dependent factor has been identified not only in mouse but also in human cells. Murine TIF-IA complements extracts from both growth-inhibited mouse and human cells. The analogous human activity appears to be similar or identical to that of TIF-IA. Therefore, despite the fact that the RNA polymerase transcription system has evolved sufficiently rapidly that an rDNA promoter from one species will not function in another species, the basic mechanisms that adapt ribosome synthesis to cell proliferation have been conserved.

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