Kuras Laurent, Borggrefe Tilman, Kornberg Roger D
Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Nov 25;100(24):13887-91. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2036346100. Epub 2003 Nov 17.
The multiprotein Mediator complex has been shown to interact with gene-specific regulatory proteins and RNA polymerase II in vitro. Here, we use chromatin immunoprecipitation to analyze the recruitment of Mediator to GAL genes of yeast in vivo. We find that Mediator associates exclusively with transcriptionally active and not inactive GAL genes. This association maps to the upstream activating sequence, rather than the core promoter, and is independent of RNA polymerase II, general transcription factors, and core promoter sequences. These findings support the idea of Mediator as a primary conduit of regulatory information from enhancers to promoters in eukaryotic cells.
多蛋白中介体复合物已被证明在体外可与基因特异性调节蛋白及RNA聚合酶II相互作用。在此,我们利用染色质免疫沉淀法在体内分析中介体与酵母GAL基因的募集情况。我们发现中介体仅与转录活跃而非转录不活跃的GAL基因相关联。这种关联定位于上游激活序列,而非核心启动子,并且独立于RNA聚合酶II、通用转录因子及核心启动子序列。这些发现支持了中介体作为真核细胞中从增强子到启动子的调节信息主要传导途径的观点。