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Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 1999, p. 5218-5234, Vol. 19, No. 7
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Spatial Organization of the Core Region of Yeast TFIIIB-DNA Complexes

Jim Persinger, Sarojini M. Sengupta, and Blaine Bartholomew*

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Program of Molecular Biology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4413

Received 24 July 1998/Returned for modification 1 September 1998/Accepted 29 March 1999

The interaction of yeast TFIIIB with the region upstream of the SUP4 tRNATyr gene was extensively probed by use of photoreactive phosphodiesters, deoxyuridines, and deoxycytidines that are site specifically incorporated into DNA. The TATA binding protein (TBP) was found to be in close proximity to the minor groove of a TATA-like DNA sequence that starts 30 nucleotides upstream of the start site of transcription. TBP was cross-linked to the phosphate backbone of DNA from bp -30 to -20 in the nontranscribed strand and from bp -28 to -24 in the transcribed strand (+1 denotes the start site of transcription). Most of the major groove of DNA in this region was shown not to be in close proximity to TBP, thus resembling the binding of TBP to the TATA box, with one notable exception. TBP was shown to interact with the major groove of DNA primarily at bp -23 and to a lesser degree at bp -25 in the transcribed strand. The stable interaction of TBP with the major groove at bp -23 was shown to require the B" subunit of TFIIIB. The S4 helix and flanking region of TBP were shown to be proximal to the major groove of DNA by peptide mapping of the region of TBP cross-linked at bp -23. Thus, TBP in the TFIIIB-SUP4 gene promoter region is bound in the same direction as TBP bound to the TATA box with respect to the transcription start site. The B" and TFIIB-related factor (BRF) subunits of TFIIIB are positioned on opposite sides of the TBP-DNA core of the TFIIIB complex, as indicated by correlation of cross-linking data to the crystal structure of the TBP-TATA box complex. Evidence is given for BRF binding near the C-terminal stirrup of TBP, similar to that of TFIIB near the TBP-TATA box complex. The protein clamp formed around the TBP-DNA complex by BRF and B" would help explain the long half-life of the TFIIIB-DNA complex and its resistance to polyanions and high salt. The path of DNA traversing the surface of TBP at the 3' end of the TATA-like element in the SUP4 tRNA gene is not the same as that of TBP bound to a TATA box element, as shown by the cross-linking of TBP at bp -23.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 1245 Lincoln Dr. #229C, Carbondale, IL 62901-4413. Phone: (618) 453-6437. Fax: (618) 453-6440. E-mail: bbartholomew{at}som.siu.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, July 1999, p. 5218-5234, Vol. 19, No. 7
0270-7306/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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