Participation of the upstream region of the fibroin gene in the formation of transcription complex in vitro.
AUTOR(ES)
Tsuda, M
RESUMO
The addition of exogenous histones has an inhibitory effect on fibroin gene transcription in posterior silk gland extracts. The histones probably disturb a process in complex formation, because when transcription complexes were constructed by preincubation of the templates with the extracts, the inhibitory effect of histones was greatly reduced. Transcription of a fibroin gene construct, pFb5' delta-238, having the upstream region beyond the TATA box was relatively less inhibited than that of pFb5' delta-44 lacking the upstream region. This tendency toward differential inhibition was observed in the silk gland extracts but not in a HeLa cell extract and persisted even after complex formation in the silk gland extracts, suggesting a specific interaction of the upstream region with some factors in the extracts. The complexes formed on pFb5' delta-44 are probably more susceptible to the inhibitory effect of histones. On the basis of these results we propose a participation of the upstream region of the fibroin gene in the formation of stable transcription complexes at the promoter through an interaction with specific factors in the silk gland. Since the transcription-enhancing effect via the upstream region is augmented at a high histone/DNA ratio, it may mimic the in vivo situation in which the fibroin gene can be transcribed in the posterior silk gland even in the presence of excess suppressive materials.
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