Salghetti, S. E., Muratani, M., Wijnen, H., Futcher, B., Tansey, W. P. (March 2000) Functional overlap of sequences that activate transcription and signal ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 97 (7). pp. 3118-3123. ISSN 0027-8424
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Abstract
Many transcription factors, particularly those involved in the control of cell growth, are unstable proteins destroyed by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis. In a previous study of sequences targeting the transcription factor Myc for destruction, we observed that the region in Myc signaling ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis overlaps closely with the region in Myc that activates transcription. Here, we present evidence that the overlap of these two activities is not unique to Myc, but reflects a more general phenomenon. We show that a similar overlap of activation domains and destruction elements occurs in other unstable transcription factors and report a close correlation between the ability of an acidic activation domain to activate transcription and to signal proteolysis. We also show that destruction elements from yeast cyclins, when tethered to a DNA-binding domain, activate transcription. The intimate overlap of activation domains and destruction elements reveals an unexpected convergence of two very different processes and suggests that transcription factors may he destroyed because of their ability to activate transcription.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1-ALPHA RNA-POLYMERASE-II SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE 26S PROTEASOME C-JUN CYCLIN DEGRADATION GENE-PRODUCT BETA-CATENIN DNA-BINDING G1 CYCLINS |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transcription bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein ubiquitination organism description > yeast |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Futcher lab CSHL labs > Tansey lab School of Biological Sciences > Publications |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | March 2000 |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2014 21:56 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2019 19:25 |
| PMCID: | PMC16202 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/29391 |
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