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MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 140, Issue 2, Pages 183-196Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2005.01.002
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TBP; TATA box; kahrp; gbp-130; Plasmodium falciparum
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RNA polymerase 11 promoters in Plasmodium spp., like in most eukaryotes, have a bipartite structure. However, the identification of a functional TATA box located within the Plasmodium spp. core promoters has been difficult, mainly because of its high A + T content. Only few putative trans-acting elements have been identified in the malaria parasite genome such as a gene orthologous to the TATA box binding protein (PfTBP). In this study, we demonstrate that PfTBP is part of the DNA-protein complexes formed in the kahrp and gbp-130 gene promoter regions. Supershift and footprinting assays performed with a GST-PfTBP fusion protein showed that PtTBP associates with a consensus TATA box sequence located 81 base pairs upstream of the transcription start site in the kahrp promoter region and with a TATA box-like (TGTAA) sequence at position - 186 of the gbp-130 gene promoter region. Chromatin immunoprecipitation assays confirmed that native PtTBP is able to associate in vivo with both TATA box elements. This is the first study that reports the identification of cis-acting sequences (TATAA and TGTAA) and their corresponding trans-acting (PfTBP) factor in R falciparum. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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