A nuclear protein factor binds specifically to the 3'-regulatory module of the long-interspersed-nuclear-element-like Dictyostelium repetitive element

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 70-76

  Geier, Anja ^a   Horn, Jens ^a   Dingermann, Theodor ^a   Winckler, Thomas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium; Integration; Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE element); Repetitive DNA; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR; REPETITIVE DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON;

ANIMALIA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0029849181     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0070t.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Boeke, J. & Corces, V. (1989) Transcription and reverse transcription of retrotransposons, Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 43, 403-434.
2. Bradford, M. M. (1976) A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding, Anal. Biochem. 72, 248-254.
3. Bukenberger, M., Marschalek, R., Salzburger, W. & Dingermann, T. (1991) Nuclear factors which hind to Dictystelium discoideum transfer RNA genes. Curr. Genet. 20, 129-135.
4. Bukenberger, M., Dingermann, T., Meissner, W., Seifart, K. H. & Winckler, T. (1994) Isolation of transcription factor IIIC from Dictyostelium discoideum. Eur. J. Biochem. 220, 839-846.
5. Firtel, R. A., Timm, R., Kimmel, A. R. & McKeown, M. (1979) Unusual nucleotide sequences at the 5′ end of actin genes in Dictyostelium discoideum. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 76, 6206-6210.
6. Garreau, H. & Williams, J. G. (1983) Two nuclear DNA binding proteins of Dictyostelium discoideum with a high affinity for poly(dA)-poly(dT), Nucleic Acids Res. 11, 8473-8484.
7. Harwood, A. J. & Drury, L. (1990) New vectors for expression of the E. coli lacZ gene in Dictyostelium, Nucleic Acids Res. 18, 4292.
8. Heukeshoven, J. & Dernik, R. (1985) Simplified method for silver staining of proteins in polyacrylamide gels and the mechanism of silver staining, Electrophoresis 6, 103-112.
9. Hori, R. & Firtel, R. (1994) Identification and characterization of multiple A/T-rich cis-acting elements that control expression from Dictyostelium actin promoters: the Dictyostelium actin upstream activating sequence confers growth phase expression and has enhancerlike properties, Nucleic Acids Res. 22, 5099-5111.
10. Hutchison, C. III, Hardies, S., Loeb, D., Shehee, W. & Edgell, M. (1989) LINEs and related retroposons: long interspersed repeated sequences in the eucaryotic genome, in Mobile DNA (Berg, D. E. & Howe, M. M., eds) pp. 593-617, American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC.
11. Kadonaga, J. T. & Tjian, R. (1986) Affinity purification of sequence-specific DNA binding proteins, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 83, 5889-5893.
12. Katz, R. & Skalka, A. (1994) The retroviral enzymes, Annu. Rev. Biochem. 63, 133-173.
13. Kimmel, A. R. & Firtel, R. A. (1983) Sequence organization in Dictyostelium: unique structure at the 5′-ends of protein coding genes, Nucleic Acids Res. 11, 541-551.
14. Kirchner, J., Conolly, C. & Sandmeyer, S. (1995) Requirement of RNA polymerase III transcription factors for in vitro position-specific integration of a retrovirus-like element, Science 267, 1488-1491.
15. Laemmli, U. K. (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4, Nature 227, 680-685.
16. Luan, D., Korman, M., Jakubezak, J. & Eickbush, T. (1993) Reverse transcription of R2Bm RNA is primed by a nick at the chromosomal target site: a mechanism for non-LTR retrotransposition, Cell 72, 595-605.
17. Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E. & Sambrook, J. (1982) Molecular cloning: a laboratory mannal, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Cold Spring Harbor NY.
18. Marschalek, R., Brechner, T., Amon-Böhm, E. & Dingermann, T. (1989) Transfer RNA genes: landmarks for integration of mobile genetic elements in Dictyostelium discoideum. Science 244, 1493- 1496.
19. Marschalek, R., Hofmann, J., Schumann, G. & Dingermann, T. (1992a) Two distinet subforms of the retrotransposable DRE element in NC4 strains of Dictyostelium discoideum. Nucleic Acids Res. 20, 6247-6252.
20. Marschalek, R., Hofmann, J., Schumann, G., Gösseringer, R. & Dingermann, T. (1992b) Structure of DRE, a retrofransposable element which integrates with position specificity upstream of Dictyostelium discoideum tRNA genes, Mol. Cell. Biol. 12, 229-239.
21. Maxam, A. & Gilbert, W. (1980) Sequencing end-labeled DNA with base-specific chemical cleavages. Methods Enzymol. 65, 499.
22. Sandmeyer, S. (1992) Yeast retrotransposons, Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 2, 705-711.
23. Schumann, G., Zündorf, I., Hofmann, J., Marschalek, R. & Dingermann, T. (1994) Internally located and oppositely oriented polymerase II promoters direct convergent transcription of a LINE-like retroelement, the Dictyostelium repetitive element, from Dictyostelium discoideum. Mol. Cell. Biol. 14, 3074-3084.
24. Tullius, T., Dombroski, B., Churchill, M. & Kam, L. (1987) Hydroxyl radical footprinting: a high-resolution method for mapping protein-DNA contacts. Methods Enzymol. 155, 537-558.
25. Varmus, H. & Brown, P. (1989) Retroviruses. in Mobile DNA (Berg. D. E. & Howe, M. M., eds) pp. 53-108. American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC.
26. Voytas, D. & Boeke, J. (1993) Yeast retrotransposons and tRNAs, Trends Genet. 9, 421-427.