Structural highlights
Function
[MED18_SCHPO] Component of the Mediator complex, a coactivator involved in the regulated transcription of nearly all RNA polymerase II-dependent genes. Mediator functions as a bridge to convey information from gene-specific regulatory proteins to the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. Mediator is recruited to promoters by direct interactions with regulatory proteins and serves as a scaffold for the assembly of a functional preinitiation complex with RNA polymerase II and the general transcription factors.[1] [MED8_SCHPO] Component of the Mediator complex, a coactivator involved in the regulated transcription of nearly all RNA polymerase II-dependent genes. Mediator functions as a bridge to convey information from gene-specific regulatory proteins to the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. Mediator is recruited to promoters by direct interactions with regulatory proteins and serves as a scaffold for the assembly of a functional preinitiation complex with RNA polymerase II and the general transcription factors.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
A combination of crystallography, biochemistry, and gene expression analysis identifies the coactivator subcomplex Med8C/18/20 as a functionally distinct submodule of the Mediator head module. Med8C forms a conserved alpha-helix that tethers Med18/20 to the Mediator. Deletion of Med8C in vivo results in dissociation of Med18/20 from Mediator and in loss of transcription activity of extracts. Deletion of med8C, med18, or med20 causes similar changes in the yeast transcriptome, establishing Med8C/18/20 as a predominantly positive, gene-specific submodule required for low transcription levels of nonactivated genes, including conjugation genes. The presented structure-based system perturbation is superior to gene deletion analysis of gene regulation.
Structure-system correlation identifies a gene regulatory Mediator submodule.,Lariviere L, Seizl M, van Wageningen S, Rother S, van de Pasch L, Feldmann H, Strasser K, Hahn S, Holstege FC, Cramer P Genes Dev. 2008 Apr 1;22(7):872-877. PMID:18381891[2]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Szilagyi Z, Grallert A, Nemeth N, Sipiczki M. The Schizosaccharomyces pombe genes sep10 and sep11 encode putative general transcriptional regulators involved in multiple cellular processes. Mol Genet Genomics. 2002 Dec;268(4):553-62. Epub 2002 Nov 7. PMID:12471453 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00438-002-0773-3
- ↑ Lariviere L, Seizl M, van Wageningen S, Rother S, van de Pasch L, Feldmann H, Strasser K, Hahn S, Holstege FC, Cramer P. Structure-system correlation identifies a gene regulatory Mediator submodule. Genes Dev. 2008 Apr 1;22(7):872-877. PMID:18381891 doi:http://dx.doi.org/22/7/872
