2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Study on the mechanism of transcriptional regulation by the general transcription factor TFIID (The Role of WD
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14540569
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
遺伝
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| Research Institution | National Institute of Genetics |
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Principal Investigator |
MITSUZAWA Hiroshi National Institute of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Assistant professor, 分子遺伝研究系, 助手 (50202346)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | general transcription factor / TFIID / TAF / WD repeat / fission yeast / transcriptional regulation / SAGA / Gcn5 |
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| Research Abstract |
The general transcription factor TFIID, which consists of TATA-binding protein (TBP) and TBP-associated factors (TAF5), plays a central role in transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in eukaryotes. This study was carried out to understand the mechanism of transcriptional regulation by TFIID, focusing on the WD repeat-containing TAFs, TAF72 and TAF73, of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
TAF72 was used as bait in a two-hybrid screen to identify its interacting proteins. The screen yielded hitone H4-like TAF with a calculated molecular mass of 50 kDa, which was named TAF50. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that TAF50, as well as TAF72, is a component of the S. pombe TFIID complex. Both TAFs were also present in the SAGA complex, a histone acetyltransferase complex distinct from TFIID.
To identify additional TAFs in S. pombe, database searches were performed, revealing that the S. pombe genome contains a set of TAFs homologous to those identified in other organisms.
In addition, temperature-sensitive mutants of TAF72 and TAF73 were isolated to elucidate the in vivo function of these TAFs.
These results uncover a function of the WD-repeat region of TAF72, that is, mediating interaction between TAFs, and also provide information about the basal transcription machinery of S. pombe. Furthermore, the temperature-sensitive mutants of TAF72 and TAF73 isolated in this study would serve as materials for future work.
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Research Products
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