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Effects of high mobility group proteins 1 and 2 on initiation and elongation of specific transcription by RNA polymerase II in vitro.

Nucleic acids research ·Vol. 16 ·No. 23 ·1988-12-09 ·Pages 11107-23

Tremethick DJ, Molloy PL

Abstract

High mobility group proteins 1 and 2 (HMGs 1 and 2) are abundant chromosomal proteins of higher eukaryotes, which have been found to be enriched in regions of active chromatin. We have previously demonstrated that they can stimulate specific transcription in vitro by RNA polymerases II and III and overcome inhibition caused by added histones. Here we study whether these effects are mediated at the level of initiation or elongation of transcription. Additions of HMGs 1 and 2 and/or histones were found to have only small or no effect on the efficiency of elongation; this was determined by comparing the relative synthesis of transcripts of different lengths, ranging from 95 to 1535 bases. The observed stimulation cannot be explained by an increased utilization of initiation complexes for multiple rounds of transcription as a similar level of stimulation by HMGs 1 and 2 was seen when RNA synthesis was limited to one round per template DNA by addition of a low level of Sarkosyl after formation of initiation complexes. The effects of HMGs 1 and 2 were principally seen on the rate of formation of effective initiation complexes. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that HMGs 1 and 2 stimulate transcription by facilitating the formation of active initiation complexes on template DNA.

MeSH Terms
Animals Base Composition/drug effects Cattle Detergents High Mobility Group Proteins/physiology Histones/pharmacology Mice Peptide Chain Elongation, Translational/drug effects Peptide Chain Initiation, Translational/drug effects RNA Polymerase II Sarcosine/analogs & derivatives Templates, Genetic Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
Chemicals
Detergents High Mobility Group Proteins Histones sarkosyl RNA Polymerase II Sarcosine
Authors & Affiliations
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Tremethick D J
CSIRO Division of Biotechnology, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
Molloy P L
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Article Info
Journal
Nucleic acids research
Abbr.
Nucleic Acids Res
ISSN
0305-1048
DOI
10.1093/nar/16.23.11107
Published
1988-12-09
Pages
11107-23
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0411011
PMCID
PMC338999
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1093/nar/16.23.11107 PMC Full Text View journal details
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