Li X Y, Green M R
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA.
Genes Dev. 1998 Oct 1;12(19):2992-6. doi: 10.1101/gad.12.19.2992.
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat protein strongly and specifically stimulates transcription elongation from the HIV-1 LTR and provides an important in vitro model system to study this process. Here we use protein-affinity chromatography to identify cellular factors involved in transcription elongation. A Tat-affinity column bound one transcription factor, Tat-SF1, efficiently and selectively. Tat-SF1 was identified originally as a Tat-specific coactivator, but we show it is a general transcription elongation factor. Our results also reveal the existence of an ATP-inactivatable general elongation factor (AIEF) required for Tat-SF1 activity and for which Tat can substitute functionally.
1型人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV-1)的Tat蛋白能强烈且特异性地刺激HIV-1长末端重复序列(LTR)的转录延伸,并为研究该过程提供了一个重要的体外模型系统。在此,我们利用蛋白质亲和色谱法来鉴定参与转录延伸的细胞因子。一个Tat亲和柱能高效且选择性地结合一种转录因子,即Tat-SF1。Tat-SF1最初被鉴定为一种Tat特异性共激活因子,但我们发现它是一种通用的转录延伸因子。我们的结果还揭示了存在一种Tat-SF1活性所需的、可被ATP灭活的通用延伸因子(AIEF),并且Tat在功能上可以替代该因子。