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Mol. Cell. Biol., 10 1995, 5757-5761, Vol 15, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Recruiting TATA-binding protein to a promoter: transcriptional activation without an upstream activator

H Xiao, JD Friesen and JT Lis
Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

The binding of TATA-binding protein (TBP) to the TATA element is the first step in the initiation of RNA polymerase II transcription from many promoters in vitro. It has been proposed that upstream activator proteins stimulate transcription by recruiting TBP to the promoter, thus facilitating the assembly of a transcription complex. However, the role of activator proteins acting at this step to stimulate transcription in vivo remains largely speculative. To test whether recruitment of TBP to the promoter is sufficient for transcriptional activation in vivo, we constructed a hybrid protein containing TBP of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae fused to the DNA-binding domain of GAL4. Our results show that TBP recruited by the GAL4 DNA-binding domain to promoters bearing a GAL4-binding site can interact with the TATA element and direct high levels of transcription. This finding indicates that binding of TBP to promoters in S. cerevisiae is a major rate-limiting step accelerated by upstream activator proteins.


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