The Product of the Fission Yeast fhl1 Gene Binds to the HomolE Box and Activates In Vitro Transcription of Ribosomal Protein Genes

Autor: Edio Maldonado, Sebastian Morales-Pison, Fabiola Urbina, Claudia Arias, Christian Castillo, Lilian Jara, Aldo Solari
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 24, Iss 11, p 9472 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1422-0067
1661-6596
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24119472
Popis: Fission yeast ribosomal protein genes (RPGs) contain a HomolD box as a core promoter element required for transcription. Some of the RPGs also contain a consensus sequence named HomolE, located upstream of the HomolD box. The HomolE box acts as an upstream activating sequence (UAS), and it is able to activate transcription in RPG promoters containing a HomolD box. In this work, we identified a HomolE-binding protein (HEBP) as a polypeptide of 100 kDa, which was able to bind to the HomolE box in a Southwestern blot assay. The features of this polypeptide were similar to the product of the fhl1 gene of fission yeast. The Fhl1 protein is the homolog of the FHL1 protein of budding yeast and possesses fork-head-associated (FHA) and fork-head (FH) domains. The product of the fhl1 gene was expressed and purified from bacteria, and it was demonstrated that is able to bind the HomolE box in an electrophoretic mobility assay (EMSA), as well as being able to activate in vitro transcription from an RPG gene promoter containing HomolE boxes upstream of the HomolD box. These results indicate that the product of the fhl1 gene of fission yeast can bind to the HomolE box, and it activates the transcription of RPGs.
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