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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 467-475Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/dxg048
Keywords
activator; assembly; nuclear factor Y; regulatory factor X; transcription
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MHC class II (MHCII) determinants play a crucial role in the immune response by presenting antigenic peptides to T cells. Their expression is controlled from compact promoters at the transcriptional level. Pre-assembled regulatory factor X (RFX) and nuclear factor Y (NFY) complexes form a platform on DNA. The class II transactivator (CIITA) can then be recruited through multiple protein-protein interactions. In this report, we defined domains of CIITA that are responsible for its interactions with these DNA-bound factors. Furthermore, using DNA-affinity precipitation, we demonstrated that although CIITA binds at least five activators, RFX5, RFXAP, RFXANK/B, NFYB and NFYC, its assembly on the promoter requires the addition of nuclear extracts. We conclude that not only does the platform bind DNA via multiple, spatially constrained nteractions, but that it can recruit only modified and/or complexed CIITA to MHCII promoters.
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