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Studying Elephants: Awf Technical Handbook Series #7, Robert H.I. Dale Jan 1996

Studying Elephants: Awf Technical Handbook Series #7, Robert H.I. Dale

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Studying Elephants: AWF Technical Handbook Series #7. Edited by Kadzo Kangwana, Nairobi, Kenya: African Wildlife Foundation, 1996, 186 pages. $15 S&H.


Heat Shock Factor Gains Access To The Yeast Hsc82 Promoter Independently Of Other Sequence-Specific Factors And Antagonizes Nucleosomal Repression Of Basal And Induced Transcription, Alexander M. Erkine, C. C. Adams, T. Diken, D. S. Gross Jan 1996

Heat Shock Factor Gains Access To The Yeast Hsc82 Promoter Independently Of Other Sequence-Specific Factors And Antagonizes Nucleosomal Repression Of Basal And Induced Transcription, Alexander M. Erkine, C. C. Adams, T. Diken, D. S. Gross

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Transcription in eukaryotic cells occurs in the context of chromatin. Binding of sequence-specific regulatory factors must contend with the presence of nucleosomes for establishment of a committed preinitiation complex. Here we demonstrate that the high-affinity binding site for heat shock transcription factor (HSF) is occupied independently of other cis-regulatory elements and is critically required for preventing nucleosomal assembly over the yeast HSC82 core promoter under both noninducing (basal) and inducing conditions. Chromosomal mutation of this sequence, termed HSE1, erases the HSF footprint and abolishes both transcription and in vivo occupancy of the TATA box. Moreover, it dramatically reduces promoter chromatin …