J 2005

Identification of a cyclin T-binding domain in Hexim1 and biochemical analysis of its binding competition with HIV-1 Tat

SCHULTE, Antje, Nadine CZUDNOCHOWSKI, Matjaz BARBORIC, Anrdé SCHONICHEN, Dalibor BLAŽEK et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Identification of a cyclin T-binding domain in Hexim1 and biochemical analysis of its binding competition with HIV-1 Tat

Autoři

SCHULTE, Antje, Nadine CZUDNOCHOWSKI, Matjaz BARBORIC, Anrdé SCHONICHEN, Dalibor BLAŽEK, B Matija PETERLIN a Matthias GEYER

Vydání

Journal of Biological Chemistry, Bethesda, USA, Amer. Soc. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2005, 0021-9258

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.854

UT WoS

000230114000081

Klíčová slova anglicky

RNA-POLYMERASE-II; ELONGATION-FACTOR-B; IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; DEPENDENT KINASE CDK6; SMOOTH-MUSCLE-CELLS; P-TEFB COMPLEX; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION; 7SK SNRNA; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; GENE-EXPRESSION

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 23. 7. 2012 06:27, Olga Křížová

Anotace

V originále

The active form of the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) consists of cyclin T and the kinase Cdk9. P-TEFb stimulates transcription by phosphorylating the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II. It becomes inactivated when associated in a tetrameric complex with the abundant 7SK small nuclear RNA and the recently identified protein Hexim1. In this study, we identified a stable and soluble C-terminal domain (residues 255-359) in Hexim1 of 12.5-kDa size that binds the cyclin boxes of Cyclin T1. Functional assays in HeLa cells showed that this cyclin T-binding domain (TBD) is required for the binding of Hexim1 to P-TEFb and inhibition of transcriptional activity in vivo. Analytical gel filtration and GST pull-down experiments revealed that both full-length Hexim1 and the TBD are homodimers. Isothermal titration calorimetry yielded a weak multimer for the TBD with a multimerization constant of 1.3 x 10(3) M. The binding affinity between the TBD and cyclin T1 was analyzed with fluorescence spectroscopy methods, using a dansyl-based fluorescence label at position G257C. Equilibrium fluorescence titration and stopped flow fast kinetics yield a dissociation constant of 1.2 mu M. Finally, we tested the effect of the HIV-1 Tat protein on the cyclin T1-TBD complex formation. GST pull-down experiments and size exclusion chromatography exhibit a mutually exclusive binding of the two effectors to cyclin T1. Our data suggest a model where HIV-1 Tat competes with Hexim1 for cyclin T1 binding, thus releasing P-TEFb from the inactive complex to stimulate the transcription of HIV-1 gene expression.