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As the effector component of the Notch signaling pathway the transcription factors of the CSL family (CBF1/RBP-Jκ/Suppressor of Hairless/Lag-1) are essential for many developmental processes in metazoan organisms, but they can function also independently of Notch. Recently, their presence was proved in fungal organisms lacking the Notch pathway as well as most of the known metazoan interacting partners. Cbf11 and Cbf12, the CSL proteins of the unicellular yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, were determined experimentally as non-essential nuclear transcription factors, which regulate cell adhesion, extracellular material production, colony morphology, septation and daughter cell separation, coordination of nuclear and cell division, and ploidy maintenance in an antagonistic way. The responsive genes of these factors are not known yet. In this study, genes of S. pombe, whose promoter regions represent potential direct targets for the Cbf proteins binding, were predicted. The binding of the Cbf11 and Cbf12 proteins, and of a truncated version Cbf12∆N to CSL response elements contained in the regulatory regions of selected S. pombe genes was tested in vitro by EMSA, and consequently, in the case of the Cbf11 protein, also in vivo by ChIP. Cbf11 and Cbf12∆N recognize specifically the response elements in... |
