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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 21, Pages 16160-16166Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M000664200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM58265] Funding Source: Medline
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The Zap1 transcriptional activator of Saccharomyces cerevisiae plays a major role in zinc homeostasis by inducing the expression of several genes under zinc-limited growth conditions. This activation of gene expression is mediated by binding of the protein to one or more zinc-responsive elements present in the promoters of its target genes. To better understand how Zap1 functions, we mapped its DNA binding domain using a combined in vivo and in vitro approach. Our results show that the Zap1 DNA binding domain maps to the carboxyl-terminal 194 amino acids of the protein; this region contains five of its seven potential zinc finger domains. Fusing this region to the Ga14 activation domain complemented a zap1 Delta mutation for low zinc growth and also conferred high level expression on a zinc-responsive element-lacZ reporter. In vitro, the purified 194-residue fragment bound to DNA with a high affinity (dissociation constant in the low nanomolar range) similar to that of longer fragments of Zap1. Furthermore, by deletion and site-directed mutagenesis, we demonstrated that each of the five carboxyl-terminal zinc fingers are required for high affinity DNA binding.
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