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Nucleic Acids Research, Vol 26, Issue 20 4588-4596, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press

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The yeast FBP1 poly(A) signal functions in both orientations and overlaps with a gene promoter

A Aranda, JE Perez-Ortin, C Moore and M del Olmo
Departament de Bioquimica i Biologia Molecular, Facultats de Ciencies, Universitat de Valencia, andDepartamento de Biotecnologia, Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos, CSIC, Apartado 73,-46100 Burjassot, Spain.

This report provides an analysis of a region of chromosome XII in which the FBP1 and YLR376c genes transcribe in the same direction. Our investigation indicates that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae FBP1 gene contains strong signals for polyadenylation and transcription termination in both orientations in vivo . A (TA)14 element plays a major role in directing polyadenylation in both orientations. While this region has four nonoverlapping copies of a TATATA hexanucleotide, which is a very potent polyadenylation efficiency element in yeast, it alone is not sufficient for full activation in the reverse orientation of a cluster of downstream poly(A) sites, and an additional upstream sequence is required. The putative RNA hairpin formed from the (TA)14 element is not involved in 3'-end formation. Surprisingly, deletion of the entire (TA)14 stretch affects transcription termination in the reverse orientation, in contrast to our previous results with the forward orientation, indicating that the transcription termination element operating in the reverse orientation has very different sequence requirements. Promoter elements for the YLR376c gene overlap with the signal for FBP1 3'-end formation. To our knowledge, this is the first time that overlapping of both types of regulatory signals has been found in two adjacent yeast genes.
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