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Comparative Study
. 1995 Oct 6;83(1):29-38.
doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90231-7.

Displacement of sequence-specific transcription factors from mitotic chromatin

M A Martínez-Balbás  1 , A Dey, S K Rabindran, K Ozato, C Wu
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Comparative Study

Displacement of sequence-specific transcription factors from mitotic chromatin

M A Martínez-Balbás et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

The general inhibition in transcriptional activity during mitosis abolishes the stress-inducible expression of the human hsp70 gene. Among the four transcription factors that bind to the human hsp70 promoter, the DNA-binding activities of three (C/EBP, GBP, and HSF1) were normal, while Sp1 showed reduced binding activity in mitotic cell extracts. In vivo footprinting and immunocytochemical analyses revealed that all of the sequence-specific transcription factors were displaced from promoter sequences as well as from bulk chromatin during mitosis. The correlation of transcription factor displacement with chromatin condensation suggests an involvement of chromatin structure in mitotic repression. However, retention of DNase I hypersensitivity suggests that the hsp70 promoter was not organized in a canonical nucleosome structure in mitotic chromatin. Displacement of transcription factors from mitotic chromosomes could present another window in the cell cycle for resetting transcriptional programs.

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