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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Fei Ling Lim, Dr Aline Pic-Taylor, Professor Brian Morgan
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The yeast MADS-box transcription factor Mcm1p plays an important regulatory role in several diverse cellular processes. In common with a subset of other MADS-box transcription factors, Mcm1p elicits substantial DNA bending. However, the role of protein-induced bending by MADS-box proteins in eukaryotic gene regulation is not understood. Here, we demonstrate an important role for Mcm1p-mediated DNA bending in determining local promoter architecture and permitting the formation of ternary transcription factor complexes. We constructed mutant mcm1 alleles that are defective in protein-induced bending. Defects in nuclear division, cell growth or viability, transcription, and gene expression were observed in these mutants. We identified one likely cause of the cell growth defects as the aberrant formation of the cell cycle-regulatory Fkh2p-Mcm1p complex. Microarray analysis confirmed the importance of Mcm1p-mediated DNA bending in maintaining correct gene expression profiles and revealed defects in Mcm1p-mediated repression of Ty elements and in the expression of the cell cycle-regulated YFR and CHS1 genes. Thus, we discovered an important role for DNA bending by MADS-box proteins in the formation and function of eukaryotic transcription factor complexes.
Author(s): Lim F-L, Hayes A, West AG, Pic-Taylor A, Darieva Z, Morgan BA, Oliver SG, Sharrocks AD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Molecular and Cellular Biology
Year: 2003
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 450-461
ISSN (print): 0270-7306
ISSN (electronic): 1067-8824
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MCB.23.2.450-461.2003
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.2.450-461.2003
PubMed id: 12509445
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