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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 1058-U4Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1883
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- Medical Research Council [U117574558]
- MRC [MC_U117574558] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U117574558] Funding Source: researchfish
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The far upstream element (FUSE) regulatory system promotes a peak in the concentration of c-Myc during cell cycle. First, the FBP transcriptional activator binds to the FUSE DNA element upstream of the c-myc promoter. Then, FBP recruits its specific repressor (FIR), which acts as an on/off transcriptional switch. Here we describe the molecular basis of FIR recruitment, showing that the tandem RNA recognition motifs of FIR provide a platform for independent FUSE DNA and FBP protein binding and explaining the structural basis of the reversibility of the FBP-FIR interaction. We also show that the physical coupling between FBP and FIR is modulated by a flexible linker positioned sequentially to the recruiting element. Our data explain how the FUSE system precisely regulates c-myc transcription and suggest that a small change in FBP-FIR affinity leads to a substantial effect on c-Myc concentration.
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