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ArticleThe EMBO journal2006

The FUSE/FBP/FIR/TFIIH system is a molecular machine programming a pulse of c-myc expression.

Juhong Liu, Fedor Kouzine, Zuqin Nie, Hye-Jung Chung, Zichrini Elisha-Feil, Achim Weber, Keji Zhao, David Levens

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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95 citing papers in PubMed, 155 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Juhong LiuLaboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-1500, USA.
Fedor Kouzine
Zuqin Nie
Hye-Jung Chung
Zichrini Elisha-Feil
Achim Weber
Keji Zhao
David Levens
National Cancer Institute · USJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DENational Heart Lung and Blood Institute · US

Funding

Genome-wide mapping of histone modificationsZIAHL005801 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI ZHAO, KEJI · 2009 to 2025
$24.0M
Mechanisms of transcription factor integration at the c-myc promoterZIASC009144 · NCI · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEVENS, DAVID L. · 2009 to 2025
$9.5M
Genome-wide mapping of histone modificationsZ01HL005801 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI ZHAO, KEJI · 2003 to 2008
$5.2M
Mechanisms of transcription factor integration at the c-myc promoterZ01SC009144 · SC · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEVENS, DAVID L. · 1996 to 2008
$3.1M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

FarUpStream Element (FUSE) Binding Protein (FBP) binds the human c-myc FUSE in vitro only in single-stranded or supercoiled DNA. Because transcriptionally generated torsion melts FUSE in vitro even in linear DNA, and FBP/FBP Interacting Repressor (FIR) regulates transcription through TFIIH, these components have been speculated to be the mechanosensor (FUSE) and effectors (FBP/FIR) of a real-time mechanism controlling c-myc transcription. To ascertain whether the FUSE/FBP/FIR system operates according to this hypothesis in vivo, the flux of activators, repressors and chromatin remodeling complexes on the c-myc promoter was monitored throughout the serum-induced pulse of transcription. After transcription was switched on by conventional factors and chromatin regulators, FBP and FIR were recruited and established a dynamically remodeled loop with TFIIH at the P2 promoter. In XPB cells carrying mutant TFIIH, loop formation failed and the serum response was abnormal; RNAi depletion of FIR similarly disabled c-myc regulation. Engineering FUSE into episomal vectors predictably re-programmed metallothionein-promoter-driven reporter expression. The in vitro recruitment of FBP and FIR to dynamically stressed c-myc DNA paralleled the in vivo process.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationCell LineChromatinDNA, SuperhelicalGenes, ReporterHumansMetallothioneinNucleic Acid ConformationPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRepressor ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA InterferenceRNA Splicing FactorsTrans-ActivatorsChromatinDNA, SuperhelicalMetallothioneinMT2A protein, humanMYC protein, humanpoly-U binding splicing factor 60KDaProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycRepressor ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA Splicing FactorsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription Factor TFIIH

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PMID16628215
PMCPMC1462968
OpenAlexW2017817862

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