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Activating Regions of Yeast Transcription Factors Must Have Both Acidic and Hydrophobic Amino Acids

Activating Regions of Yeast Transcription Factors Must Have Both Acidic and Hydrophobic Amino Acids

D M Ruden

Chromosoma. 1992 Mar;101(5-6):342-8.

PMID: 1576884

Abstract:

Two similarities among transcriptional activating regions of many eukaryotic transcription factors, like those from GAL4, GCN4, and VP16, are that they have a net negative charge, and that many of them can potentially form amphipathic alpha-helices with acidic amino acids on the hydrophilic face. Based on these similarities, E. Giniger and M. Ptashne previously designed a short peptide (AH) which is predicted to have the potential to form a negatively charged amphipathic alpha-helix; AH was able to mediate transcription activation in yeast when it was attached to the DNA binding and dimerization portion of GAL4 [GAL4(1-147)]. This paper describes screening of a pool of AH derivatives containing randomized amino acids fused to GAL4(1-147) and to an analogous region of LexA [LexA(1-87)] in yeast strains. Results suggest that both acidic and hydrophobic amino acids are critical features of activating regions--these results are consistent with the model that activating regions often form amphipathic alpha-helices. This work is novel because hydrophobic amino acids are also shown to be important in activating regions of yeast transcription factors.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
IAR42414927	GAL4 [(1-147) - AH] from Saccharomyces cerevisiae			Price

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