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Nucleic Acids Research, 2002, Vol. 30, No. 19 4118-4126
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Having it both ways: transcription factors that bind DNA and RNA

Laura A. Cassiday and L. James Maher III*

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 507 284 9041; Fax: +1 507 284 2053; Email: maher{at}mayo.edu

Multifunctional proteins challenge the conventional ‘one protein–one function’ paradigm. Here we note apparent multifunctional proteins with nucleic acid partners, tabulating eight examples. We then focus on eight additional cases of transcription factors that bind double-stranded DNA with sequence specificity, but that also appear to lead alternative lives as RNA-binding proteins. Exemplified by the prototypic Xenopus TFIIIA protein, and more recently by mammalian p53, this list of transcription factors includes WT-1, TRA-1, bicoid, the bacterial {sigma}70 subunit, STAT1 and TLS/FUS. The existence of transcription factors that bind both DNA and RNA provides an interesting puzzle. Little is known concerning the biological roles of these alternative protein–nucleic acid interactions, and even less is known concerning the structural basis for dual nucleic acid specificity. We discuss how these natural examples have motivated us to identify artificial RNA sequences that competitively inhibit a DNA-binding transcription factor not known to have a natural RNA partner. The identification of such RNAs raises the possibility that RNA binding by DNA-binding proteins is more common than currently appreciated.


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