The structural basis for the oriented assembly of a TBP/TFB/promoter complex.
Littlefield, O., Korkhin, Y., Sigler, P.B.(1999) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96: 13668-13673
- PubMed: 10570130
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.96.24.13668
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
1D3U - PubMed Abstract:
Recently the definition of the metazoan RNA polymerase II and archaeal core promoters has been expanded to include a region immediately upstream of the TATA box called the B recognition element (BRE), so named because eukaryal transcription factor TFIIB and its archaeal orthologue TFB interact with the element in a sequence-specific manner. Here we present the 2.4-A crystal structure of archaeal TBP and the C-terminal core of TFB (TFB(c)) in a complex with an extended TATA-box-containing promoter that provides a detailed picture of the stereospecific interactions between the BRE and a helix-turn-helix motif in the C-terminal cyclin repeat of TFB(c). This interaction is important in determining the level of basal transcription and explicitly defines the direction of transcription.
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Molecular Biophysics, Yale University, New Haven CT 06511, USA.