Xenopus heat shock factor 1 is a nuclear protein before heat stress.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
P A MercierJ T Westwood

Abstract

Stress-induced expression of the heat shock (hs) genes in eukaryotes is mediated by a transcription factor known as heat shock factor 1 (HSF1). HSF1 is present in a latent, monomeric form in unstressed metazoan cells and upon exposure to heat or other forms of stress is converted to an "active" trimeric form, which binds the promoters of hs genes and induces their transcription. The conversion of HSF1 to its active form is hypothesized to be a multistep process involving (i) oligomerization of HSF1, plus (ii) additional changes in its physical conformation, (iii) changes in its phosphorylation state, and for some species (iv) translocation from the cytoplasm to the nucleus. Oligomerization of HSF appears to be essential for high affinity DNA binding, but it remains unclear whether the other steps occur in all organisms or what their mechanistic roles are. In this study we have examined if heat-induced cytoplasmic-nuclear translocation of HSF1 occurs in Xenopus oocytes. We observed that germinal vesicles (nuclei) that were physically dissected from unshocked Xenopus laevis oocytes contain no HSF1 binding activity. Interestingly, in vitro heat shock treatments of isolated nuclei from unshocked oocytes activated HSF1 binding, indi...Continue Reading

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