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Activating protein factor binds in vitro to upstream control sequences in heat shock gene chromatin.

DNA sequences, important for the control of Drosophila heat shock gene expression, are packaged in chromatin in a nuclease hypersensitive configuration. Recently, two protein-binding (exonuclease-resistant) sites which cover the TATA box sequence and an upstream control element were shown to occur in vivo amidst the 5' terminal hypersensitive regions of several heat shock genes. Protein-binding at the TATA box is independent of heat shock, but the binding at the upstream element is heat shock dependent, and it was proposed that a heat shock activator protein, HAP, positively regulates the genes. Here, I report the detection of HAP activity in heat shocked cell extracts by reconstituting specific binding to hsp82 gene chromatin in vitro. Inhibition of the binding by free DNA from the 5' region of heat shock genes implies a coordinate regulation of the gene family through HAP interaction with the upstream heat shock consensus sequence. Furthermore, the special ease of induction of the hsp82 gene over other heat shock genes can be explained in molecular terms by the higher affinity of HAP for the hsp82 binding site, which contains a 28 base sequence with almost perfect dyad symmetry, GAAGCCTCTAGAAG/TTTCTAGAGACTTC.[1]

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