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Molecular and Cellular Biology, August 2000, p. 5797-5807, Vol. 20, No. 16
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research,
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Received 30 November 1999/Returned for modification 19 January
2000/Accepted 6 May 2000
E2F-mediated transcription is thought to involve binding of an
E2F-pocket protein complex to promoters in the G0 phase of the cell cycle and release of the pocket protein in late
G1, followed by release of E2F in S phase. We have tested
this model by monitoring protein-DNA interactions in living cells using
a formaldehyde cross-linking and immunoprecipitation assay. We find
that E2F target genes are bound by distinct E2F-pocket protein
complexes which change as cells progress through the cell cycle. We
also find that certain E2F target gene promoters are bound by pocket proteins when such promoters are transcriptionally active. Our data
indicate that the current model applies only to certain E2F target
genes and suggest that Rb family members may regulate transcription in
both G0 and S phases. Finally, we find that a given
promoter can be bound by one of several different E2F-pocket protein
complexes at a given time in the cell cycle, suggesting that cell
cycle-regulated transcription is a stochastic, not a predetermined, process.
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Target Gene Specificity of E2F and Pocket Protein
Family Members in Living Cells


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Corresponding author. Mailing address: McArdle
Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin Medical School,
Madison, WI 53706. Phone: (608) 262-2071. Fax: (608) 262-2824. E-mail: farnham{at}oncology.wisc.edu.
Present address: Department of Pathology, Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
Present address: Program in Molecular Medicine, University of
Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA 01605.
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