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Molecular and Cellular Biology, March 2000, p. 1923-1930, Vol. 20, No. 6
0270-7306/00/$04.00+0
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Acetyl Coenzyme A Stimulates RNA Polymerase II Transcription and Promoter Binding by Transcription Factor IID in the Absence of Histones

Shelly K. Galasinski,1 Tricia N. Lively,1 Alexandra Grebe de Barron,2 and James A. Goodrich1,*

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215,1 and Molecular Genetics Unit, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park, 20132 Milan, Italy2

Received 23 November 1999/Accepted 15 December 1999

Protein acetylation has emerged as a means of controlling levels of mRNA synthesis in eukaryotic cells. Here we report that acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA) stimulates RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro in the absence of histones. The effect of acetyl-CoA on basal and activated transcription was studied in a human RNA polymerase II transcription system reconstituted from recombinant and highly purified transcription factors. Both basal and activated transcription were stimulated by the addition of acetyl-CoA to transcription reaction mixtures. By varying the concentrations of general transcription factors in the reaction mixtures, we found that acetyl-CoA decreased the concentration of TFIID required to observe transcription. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays and DNase I footprinting revealed that acetyl-CoA increased the affinity of the general transcription factor TFIID for promoter DNA in a TBP-associated factor (TAF)-dependent manner. Interestingly, acetyl-CoA also caused a conformational change in the TFIID-TFIIA-promoter complex as assessed by DNase I footprinting. These results show that acetyl-CoA alters the DNA binding activity of TFIID and indicate that this biologically important cofactor functions at multiple levels to control gene expression.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 215, Boulder, CO 80309-0215. Phone: (303) 492-3273. Fax: (303) 492-5894. E-mail: james.goodrich{at}colorado.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, March 2000, p. 1923-1930, Vol. 20, No. 6
0270-7306/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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