Author:
Corey Laura L.,Weirich Christine S.,Benjamin Ivor J.,Kingston Robert E.
Abstract
To understand the role of chromatin-remodeling activities in transcription, it is necessary to understand how they interact with transcriptional activators in vivo to regulate the different steps of transcription. Human heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) stimulates both transcriptional initiation and elongation. We replaced mouse HSF1 in fibroblasts with wild-type and mutant human HSF1 constructs and characterized regulation of an endogenous mousehsp70gene. A mutation that diminished transcriptional initiation led to twofold reductions inhsp70mRNA induction and recruitment of a SWI/SNF remodeling complex. In contrast, a mutation that diminished transcriptional elongation abolished induction of full-length mRNA, SWI/SNF recruitment, and chromatin remodeling, but minimally impaired initiation from thehsp70promoter. Another remodeling factor, SNF2h, is constitutively present at the promoter irrespective of the genotype of HSF1. These data suggest that localized recruitment of SWI/SNF drives a specialized remodeling reaction necessary for the production of full-lengthhsp70mRNA.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Subject
Developmental Biology,Genetics
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