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Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 1999, p. 5279-5288, Vol. 19, No. 8
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Chromatin Opening and Transactivator Potentiation by RAP1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Liuning Yu and Randall H. Morse*

Molecular Genetics Program, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, and State University of New York School of Public Health, Albany, New York 12201-2002

Received 18 May 1999/Accepted 20 May 1999

Transcriptional activators function in vivo via binding sites that may be packaged into chromatin. Here we show that whereas the transcriptional activator GAL4 is strongly able to perturb chromatin structure via a nucleosomal binding site in yeast, GCN4 does so poorly. Correspondingly, GCN4 requires assistance from an accessory protein, RAP1, for activation of the HIS4 promoter, whereas GAL4 does not. The requirement for RAP1 for GCN4-mediated HIS4 activation is dictated by the DNA-binding domain of GCN4 and not the activation domain, suggesting that RAP1 assists GCN4 in gaining access to its binding site. Consistent with this, overexpression of GCN4 partially alleviates the requirement for RAP1, whereas HIS4 activation via a weak GAL4 binding site requires RAP1. RAP1 is extremely effective at interfering with positioning of a nucleosome containing its binding site, consistent with a role in opening chromatin at the HIS4 promoter. Furthermore, increasing the spacing between binding sites for RAP1 and GCN4 by 5 or 10 bp does not impair HIS4 activation, indicating that cooperative protein-protein interactions are not involved in transcriptional facilitation by RAP1. We conclude that an important role of RAP1 is to assist activator binding by opening chromatin.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Genetics Program, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, and State University of New York School of Public Health, Albany, NY 12201-2002. Phone: (518) 486-3116. Fax: (518) 474-3181. E-mail: Randall.Morse{at}wadsworth.org.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 1999, p. 5279-5288, Vol. 19, No. 8
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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