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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2002, p. 127-137, Vol. 22, No. 1
0270-7306/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.1.127-137.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

p300-Mediated Tax Transactivation from Recombinant Chromatin: Histone Tail Deletion Mimics Coactivator Function

Sara A. Georges,1 W. Lee Kraus,2 Karolin Luger,1 Jennifer K. Nyborg,1* and Paul J. Laybourn1

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1870,1 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 148532

Received 20 July 2001/ Returned for modification 19 September 2001/ Accepted 4 October 2001

Efficient transcription of the human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) genome requires Tax, a virally encoded oncogenic transcription factor, in complex with the cellular transcription factor CREB and the coactivators p300/CBP. To examine Tax transactivation in vitro, we used a chromatin assembly system that included recombinant core histones. The addition of Tax, CREB, and p300 to the HTLV-1 promoter assembled into chromatin activated transcription several hundredfold. Chromatin templates selectively lacking amino-terminal histone tails demonstrated enhanced transcriptional activation by Tax and CREB, with significantly reduced dependence on p300 and acetyl coenzyme A (acetyl-CoA). Interestingly, Tax/CREB activation from the tailless chromatin templates retained a substantial requirement for acetyl-CoA, indicating a role for acetyl-CoA beyond histone acetylation. These data indicate that during Tax transcriptional activation, the amino-terminal histone tails are the major targets of p300 and that tail deletion and acetylation are functionally equivalent.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1870. Phone: (970) 491-0420. Fax: (970) 491-0494. Email: jnyborg{at}lamar.colostate.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2002, p. 127-137, Vol. 22, No. 1
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/MCB.22.1.127-137.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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