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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 35, Pages 31761-31767Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M203792200
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To further our understanding of the transcription/DNA repair factor TFIIH, we investigated the role of its p52 subunit in TFIIH function. Using a completely reconstituted in vitro transcription or nucleotide excision repair (NER) system, we show that deletion of the G terminal region of p52 results in a dramatic reduction of TFIIH NER and transcription activities. This mutation prevents promoter opening and has no effect on the other enzymatic activities of TFIIH. Moreover, we demonstrate that intact p52 is needed to anchor the XPB helicase within TFIIH, providing an explanation for the transcription and NER defects observed with the mutant p52. We show that these two subunits physically interact and map domains involved in the interface. Taken together, our results show that the p52/Tfb2 subunit of TFIIH regulates the function of XPB through pair-wise interactions as described previously for p44 and XPD.
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