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Nucleic Acids Research, 2000, Vol. 28, No. 2 527-533
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Sequence-specific binding of Taz1p dimers to fission yeast telomeric DNA

Karen G. Spink, Rebecca J. Evans and Alistair Chambers*

Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

The fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) taz1 gene encodes a telomere-associated protein. It contains a single copy of a Myb-like motif termed the telobox that is also found in the human telomere binding proteins TRF1 and TRF2, and Tbf1p, a protein that binds to sequences found within the sub-telomeric regions of budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) chromosomes. Taz1p was synthesised in vitro and shown to bind to a fission yeast telomeric DNA fragment in a sequence specific manner that required the telobox motif. Like the mammalian TRF proteins, Taz1p bound to DNA as a preformed homodimer. The isolated Myb-like domain was also capable of sequence specific DNA binding, although with less specificity than the full-length dimer. Surprisingly, a protein extract produced from a taz1–fission yeast strain still contained the major telomere binding activity (complex I) we have characterised previously, suggesting that there could be other abundant telomere binding proteins in fission yeast. One candidate, SpX, was also synthesised in vitro, but despite the presence of two telobox domains, no sequence specific binding to telomeric DNA was detected.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel +44 115 970 9225; Fax: +44 115 970 9906; Email: alistair.chambers@nott.ac.uk


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