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ACTA BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA SINICA
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 356-362Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2006.00170.x
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chromatin immunoprecipitation; heat shock factor; heat shock gene; yeast heat shock factor-promoter binding
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Heat shock factor-DNA interaction is critical for understanding the regulatory mechanisms of stress-induced gene expression in eukaryotes. In this study, we analyzed the in vivo binding of yeast heat shock factor (H SF) to the promoters of target gene s ScSSA 1, ScSSA 4, HSP3 0 and HSP104, using chromatin immunoprecipitation. Previous work suggested that yeast HSF is constitutively bound to DNA at all temperatures. Expression of HSF target genes is regulated at the post-transcriptional level. However, our results indicated that HSF does not bind to the promoters of ScSSA4 and HSP30 at normal temperature (23 degrees C). Binding to these promoters is rapidly induced by heat stress at 39 degrees C. HSF binds to ScSSA1 and HSP104 promoters under non-stress conditions, but at a low level. Heat stress rapidly leads to a notable increase in the binding of HSF to these two genes. The kinetics of the level of HSF-promoter binding correlate well with the expression of target genes, suggesting that the expression of HSF target genes is at least partially the result of HSF-promoter binding stability and subsequent transcription stimulation.
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