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Mol Cell Biol
1989 Nov 01;911:5093-104. doi: 10.1128/mcb.9.11.5093-5104.1989.
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The Xenopus ribosomal DNA 60- and 81-base-pair repeats are position-dependent enhancers that function at the establishment of the preinitiation complex: analysis in vivo and in an enhancer-responsive in vitro system.
Pape LK, Windle JJ, Mougey EB, Sollner-Webb B.
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Although it is generally believed that the 60- and 81-base-pair (60/81-bp) repeats of the Xenopus laevis ribosomal DNA (rDNA) spacer are position-independent transcriptional enhancers, this has not been shown directly. We have now developed a critical assay which proves that the 60/81-bp repeats do, in fact, stimulate transcription from promoters in cis and that they function in both orientations and when up to 1 kilobase pair from the initiation site. However, contrary to the widely accepted view, these elements are found to be highly position dependent, for they have no net effect when downstream of the initiation site within the transcribed region and they behave as transcriptional silencers of promoters in cis when moved greater than 2 kilobase pairs upstream of the initiation site. The 60/81-bp elements therefore are position-dependent 5' enhancers. We also found that this rDNA enhancer was polymerase I specific and that it was composed of duplicated, individually functional elements. Finally, we report an in vitro system that reproduces both cis enhancement and trans competition by the 60/81-bp repeats. Sequential-addition studies in this system demonstrated that the rDNA enhancer functions in trans at or before establishment of the stable transcription complex, not subsequently at each round of transcription.
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