Mutational analysis of TAF6 revealed the essential requirement of the histone-fold domain and the HEAT repeat domain for transcriptional activation

The FEBS Journal
Rashmi Dahiya, Krishnamurthy Natarajan

Abstract

TAF6, bearing the histone H4-like histone-fold domain (HFD), is a subunit of the core TAF module in TFIID and SAGA transcriptional regulatory complexes. We isolated and characterized several yeast TAF6 mutants bearing amino acid substitutions in the HFD, the middle region or the HEAT repeat domain. The TAF6 mutants were highly defective for transcriptional activation by the Gcn4 and Gal4 activators. CHIP assays showed that the TAF6-HFD and the TAF6-HEAT domain mutations independently abrogated the promoter occupancy of TFIID and SAGA complex in vivo. We employed genetic and biochemical assays to identify the relative contributions of the TAF6 HFD and HEAT domains. First, the temperature-sensitive phenotype of the HEAT domain mutant was suppressed by overexpression of the core TAF subunits TAF9 and TAF12, as well as TBP. The HFD mutant defect, however, was suppressed by TAF5 but not by TAF9, TAF12 or TBP. Second, the HEAT mutant but not the HFD mutant was defective for growth in the presence of transcription elongation inhibitors. Third, coimmunoprecipitation assays using yeast cell extracts indicated that the specific TAF6 HEAT domain residues are critical for the interaction of core TAF subunits with the SAGA complex but not w...Continue Reading

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