Figure 3.
TAF1 zinc knuckle and winged helix are imperative for effective cyclin promoter activity. (A) Incorporation of TAF1 proteins into TFIID. TFIID complexes were isolated by immunoprecipitation and incorporated HA-TAF1 variants detected by anti-HA immunoblotting. Additional TFIID subunits immunoprecipitated were detected by immunoblotting. The full-length blots are presented in Supplemental Figure S5. Quantitation of normalized HA-TAF1 and TAF protein levels are provided in Supplemental Table 2. (B) Chromatin immunoprecipitation of HA-TAF1 variants expressed in HEK293 cells followed by qPCR for cyclin D1 and cyclin A2 promoters (n = 4). (C) Luciferase assay of cyclin D1 and cyclin A2 promoter driven reporter constructs co-transfected with TAF1 variants. Luciferase activity was normalized for total protein and expressed relative to reporter activity without exogenous TAF1 (Empty), given a value of 1.0 (n = 3). All error bars represent standard deviation. Two-tailed analysis compared to WT with a 95% confidence, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.0001 (Unpaired t-test).
