Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 13 5771-5781
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Heavy metal ions in transcription factors from HeLa cells: Sp1, but not octamer transcription factor requires zinc for DNA binding and for activator function
Institut für Molekularbiologie II der Universität Zürich Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Received April 28, 1988. Accepted June 8, 1988.
Zinc is an important cofactor for many enzymes involved in nucleic acid metabolism such as DNA and RNA polymerases, reverse transcriptase and tRNA synthetases. We have developed an inducible in vitro transcription system using metal-depleted nuclear extracts to reveal the presence and functional relevance of heavy metal ions in transcription factors. Using protein-DNA binding assays (band shift and DNAase I footprint) we show that Sp1, a promoter-specific vertebrate transcription factor that binds to the "GC box" 
, is reversibly inactivated by metal-depletion. Zinc is required for specific DNA binding in vitro and is also essential for Sp1 factor-directed transcription. In contrast, another factor from HeLa cells, the so-called octamer transcription factor (OTF) that binds to the sequence 5'-ATGCAAATNA, is not affected by metal-depletion and thus seems not to be a zinc metalloprotein.
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