RRC ID 37707
著者 Takemori Y, Enoki Y, Yamamoto N, Fukai Y, Adachi K, Sakurai H.
タイトル Mutational analysis of human heat-shock transcription factor 1 reveals a regulatory role for oligomerization in DNA-binding specificity.
ジャーナル Biochem J
Abstract HSF (heat-shock transcription factor) trimers bind to the HSE (heat-shock element) regulatory sequence of target genes and regulate gene expression. A typical HSE consists of at least three contiguous inverted repeats of the 5-bp sequence nGAAn. Yeast HSF is able to recognize discontinuous HSEs that contain gaps in the array of the nGAAn sequence; however, hHSF1 (human HSF1) fails to recognize such sites in vitro, in yeast and in HeLa cells. In the present study, we isolated suppressors of the temperature-sensitive growth defect of hHSF1-expressing yeast cells. Intragenic suppressors contained amino acid substitutions in the DNA-binding domain of hHSF1 that enabled hHSF1 to regulate the transcription of genes containing discontinuous HSEs. The substitutions facilitated hHSF1 oligomerization, suggesting that the DNA-binding domain is important for this conformational change. Furthermore, other oligomerization-prone derivatives of hHSF1 were capable of recognizing discontinuous HSEs. These results suggest that modulation of oligomerization is important for the HSE specificity of hHSF1 and imply that hHSF1 possesses the ability to bind to and regulate gene expression via various types of HSEs in diverse cellular processes.
巻・号 424(2)
ページ 253-61
公開日 2009-11-11
DOI 10.1042/BJ20090922
PII BJ20090922
PMID 19758120
MeSH Amino Acid Sequence DNA / metabolism* DNA-Binding Proteins / analysis DNA-Binding Proteins / chemistry DNA-Binding Proteins / genetics* DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism HeLa Cells Heat Shock Transcription Factors Humans Molecular Sequence Data Mutation* Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics Saccharomyces cerevisiae / growth & development Saccharomyces cerevisiae / metabolism Substrate Specificity Transcription Factors / analysis Transcription Factors / chemistry Transcription Factors / genetics* Transcription Factors / metabolism
IF 4.097
引用数 13
WOS 分野 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞