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  • Title: Recombinant rat CBF-C, the third subunit of CBF/NFY, allows formation of a protein-DNA complex with CBF-A and CBF-B and with yeast HAP2 and HAP3.
    Author: Sinha S, Maity SN, Lu J, de Crombrugghe B.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1995 Feb 28; 92(5):1624-8. PubMed ID: 7878029.
    Abstract:
    The CCAAT binding factor CBF is a heteromeric transcription factor, which binds to functional CCAAT motifs in many eukaryotic promoters. cDNAs for the A and B subunits of CBF (CBF-A and CBF-B) and for their yeast homologues HAP3 and HAP2 have been previously isolated, but the purified recombinant CBF-A and CBF-B together are unable to bind to CCAAT motifs in DNA. Here we report the isolation of a cDNA coding for rat CBF-C, demonstrate that recombinant CBF-C is required together with CBF-A and CBF-B to form a CBF-DNA complex, and show that CBF-C is present in this protein-DNA complex together with the other two subunits. We further show that CBF-C allows formation of a complex between the purified recombinant yeast HAP2 and HAP3 polypeptides and a CCAAT-containing DNA and is present in this complex, implying the existence of a CBF-C homologue in yeast. We show that CBF-A and CBF-C interact with each other to form a CBF-A-CBF-C complex and that CBF-B does not interact with CBF-A or CBF-C individually but that it associates with the CBF-A-CBF-C complex. Our results indicate that CBF is a unique evolutionarily conserved DNA binding protein.
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