A protein-induced DNA bend increases the specificity of a prokaryotic enhancer-binding protein
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Integration host factor (IHF) is a protein that induces a sharp bend in DNA. It inhibits DNA-looping-dependent transcriptional activation by an enhancer-binding protein that is not suitable and facilitates similar activation by a suitable enhancer-binding protein. The consequence of these opposing effects is increase in the specificity of activation of a promoter susceptible to control by a protein distally bound. A protein-induced bend in DNA increases specificity of a prokaryotic enhancer-binding protein.
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 1998
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Nucleosome displacement in transcription
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A study reveal that a combination of transcription factor binding, histone acetylation, nucleosome remodeling complexes and histone variant H2AZ target promoter nucleosomes for displacement upon gene induction to clear space for assembling the transcription machinery. Results reveal that moreover, nucleosomes are displaced during transcription elongation, where it is necessary to restore them to block TATA-like sequences in transcribed region to prevent cryptic sites of initiation.
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 2006
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Nucleotide excision repair and photolyase preferentially repair the nontranscribed strand of RNA polymerase III-transcribed genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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A high-resolution primer extension method showed novel relationships between repair, transcription and mutagenesis in RNA polymerase III transcribed genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In vivo repair of UV-induced DNA alteration by nucleotide excision repair (NER) and by photoreactivation is shown to prefer the nontranscribed strand (NTS) of the SNR6 gene.
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 1998
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