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  • Title: Screening of transcription factors with transcriptional initiation activity.
    Author: Zhang L, Yu H, Wang P, Ding Q, Wang Z.
    Journal: Gene; 2013 Nov 15; 531(1):64-70. PubMed ID: 23933270.
    Abstract:
    A majority of mammalian promoters are associated with CpG islands. CpG island promoters frequently lack common core promoter elements, such as the TATA box, and often have dispersed transcription start sites. The mechanism through which CpG island promoters are transcriptionally initiated remains unclear. We speculate that some transcription factors can direct transcription initiation by themselves. To test this hypothesis, we screened a variety of transcription factors to see whether they could initiate transcription. Most transcription factors, including specificity protein 1 (Sp1) and nuclear factor Y (NF-Y), showed little transcriptional initiation activity. However, nuclear respiratory factor 1 (NRF-1), the basic helix-loop-helix/leucine zipper (bHLH/ZIP) family of proteins and the E-twenty six (Ets) family of proteins had strong transcriptional activity. We further demonstrated that these transcription factors initiate dispersed transcription. Our studies provide perspectives to the mechanism of transcription initiation from CpG island promoters.
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