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Mol Cell Biol, July 1998, p. 3752-3761, Vol. 18, No. 7
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Interaction of TATA-Binding Protein with Upstream Activation Factor Is Required for Activated Transcription of Ribosomal DNA by RNA Polymerase I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae In Vivo

Joan S. Steffan, Daniel A. Keys, Loan Vu, and Masayasu Nomura*

Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California---Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1700

Received 20 October 1997/Returned for modification 21 November 1997/Accepted 29 March 1998

Previous in vitro studies have shown that initiation of transcription of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves an interaction of upstream activation factor (UAF) with the upstream element of the promoter, forming a stable UAF-template complex; together with TATA-binding protein (TBP), UAF then recruits an essential factor, core factor (CF), to the promoter, forming a stable preinitiation complex. TBP interacts with both UAF and CF in vitro. In addition, a subunit of UAF, Rrn9p, interacts with TBP in vitro and in the two-hybrid system, suggesting the possible importance of this interaction for UAF function. Using the yeast two-hybrid system, we have identified three mutations in RRN9 that abolish the interaction of Rrn9p with TBP without affecting its interaction with Rrn10p, another subunit of UAF. Yeast cells containing any one of these individual mutations, L110S, L269P, or L274Q, did not show any growth defects. However, cells containing a combination of L110S with one of the other two mutations showed a temperature-sensitive phenotype, and this phenotype was suppressed by fusing the mutant genes to SPT15, which encodes TBP. In addition, another mutation (F186S), which disrupts both Rrn9p-TBP and Rrn9p-Rrn10p interactions in the two-hybrid system, abolished UAF function in vivo, and this mutational defect was suppressed by fusion of the mutant gene to SPT15 combined with overexpression of Rrn10p. These experiments demonstrate that the interaction of UAF with TBP, which is presumably achieved by the interaction of Rrn9p with TBP, is indeed important for high-level transcription of rDNA by RNA polymerase I in vivo.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California---Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1700. Phone: (949) 824-4565. Fax: (949) 824-3201. E-mail: mnomura{at}uci.edu.

Mol Cell Biol, July 1998, p. 3752-3761, Vol. 18, No. 7
0270-7306/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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