Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, United States.
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, NY, United States.
Transcription. 2022 Feb-Jun;13(1-3):39-52. doi: 10.1080/21541264.2022.2085502. Epub 2022 Jun 16.
The Mediator complex was discovered in the early 1990s as a biochemically fractionated factor from yeast extracts that was necessary for activator-stimulated transcriptional activation to be observed in transcription assays. The structure of this large, multi-protein complex is now understood in great detail, and novel genetic approaches have provided rich insights into its dynamics during transcriptional activation and the mechanism by which it facilitates activated transcription. Here I review recent findings and unanswered questions regarding Mediator dynamics, the roles of individual subunits, and differences between its function in yeast and metazoan cells.
中介复合物于 20 世纪 90 年代初在酵母提取物中被发现,是一种生化分离因子,在转录测定中,它对于激活剂刺激的转录激活是必需的。该大型多蛋白复合物的结构现在已经有了非常详细的了解,新的遗传方法为深入了解其在转录激活过程中的动力学以及它促进激活转录的机制提供了丰富的见解。在这里,我回顾了关于中介复合物动力学、各个亚基的作用以及其在酵母和后生动物细胞中的功能差异的最新发现和未解决的问题。