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EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 1034-1044Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.5.1034
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cell growth; c-myc; far upstream element; FUSE-binding protein
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The c-myc regulatory region includes binding sites for a large set of transcription factors, The present studies demonstrate that in the absence of FBP [far upstream element (FUSE)-binding protein], which binds to the single-stranded FUSE, the remainder of the set fails to sustain endogenous c-myc expression. A dominant-negative FBP DNA-binding domain lacking effector activity or an antisense FBP RNA, expressed via replication-defective adenovirus vectors, arrested cellular proliferation and extinguished native c-myc transcription from the P1 and P2 promoters. The dominant-negative FBP initially augmented the single-stranded character of FUSE: however once c-myc expression was abolished, melting at FUSE could no longer be supported. In contrast, with antisense FBP RNA, the single-stranded character of FUSE decreased monotonically as the transcription of endogenous c-myc declined, Because transcription is the major source of super-coiling in vivo, we propose that by binding torsionally strained DNA, FBP measures promoter activity directly. we also show that FUSE is predicted to behave as a torsion-regulated switch poised to regulate c-myc and to confer a higher order regulation on a large repertoire of factors.
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