Evidence for silencing compartments within the yeast nucleus: a role for telomere proximity and Sir protein concentration in silencer-mediated repression - PubMed (original) (raw)
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Evidence for silencing compartments within the yeast nucleus: a role for telomere proximity and Sir protein concentration in silencer-mediated repression
L Maillet et al. Genes Dev. 1996.
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Abstract
Transcriptional repression at the silent mating-type loci in yeast requires the targeting of silent information regulator (Sir) proteins through specific interactions formed at cis-acting silencer elements. We show here that a reporter gene flanked by two functional silencers is not repressed when integrated at >200 kb from a telomere. Repression is restored by creation of a new telomere 13 kb from the integrated reporter or by elevated expression of SIR1, SIR3, and/or SIR4. Coupled expression represses in an additive manner, suggesting that all three factors are in limiting concentrations. When overexpressed, Sir3 and Sir4 are dispersed throughout the nucleoplasm, in contrast to wild-type cells where they are clustered in a limited number of foci together with telomeres. Efficient silencer function thus seems to require either proximity to a pool of concentrated Sir proteins, that is, proximity to telomeres, or delocalization of the silencing factors.
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