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  • Title: A subunit of yeast TFIIIC participates in the recruitment of TATA-binding protein.
    Author: Deprez E, Arrebola R, Conesa C, Sentenac A.
    Journal: Mol Cell Biol; 1999 Dec; 19(12):8042-51. PubMed ID: 10567530.
    Abstract:
    TFIIIC plays a key role in nucleating the assembly of the initiation factor TFIIIB on class III genes. We have characterized an essential gene, TFC8, encoding the 60-kDa polypeptide, tau60, present in affinity-purified TFIIIC. Hemagglutinin-tagged variants of tau60 were found to be part of TFIIIC-tDNA complexes and to reside at least in part in the downstream DNA-binding domain tauB. Unexpectedly, the thermosensitive phenotype of N-terminally tagged tau60 was suppressed by overexpression of tau95, which belongs to the tauA domain, and by two TFIIIB components, TATA-binding protein (TBP) and B"/TFIIIB90 (but not by TFIIIB70). Mutant TFIIIC was deficient in the activation of certain tRNA genes in vitro, and the transcription defect was selectively alleviated by increasing TBP concentration. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments support a direct interaction between TBP and tau60. It is suggested that tau60 links tauA and tauB domains and participates in TFIIIB assembly via its interaction with TBP.
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