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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 40, 37191-37200, October 4, 2002

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CCAAT Binding Factor (CBF) Binding Mediates Cell Cycle Activation of Topoisomerase II
CONVENTIONAL CBF ACTIVATION DOMAINS ARE NOT REQUIRED^*

Qianghua Hu, Chitralekha Bhattacharya, and Sankar N. Maity^§

From the Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030

To understand the role of the CCAAT binding factor (CBF) in transcription during the cell cycle, we studied the mouse topoisomerase II (topo II) promoter, which is activated during the late S and G₂/M phases of the cell cycle and contains multiple CBF binding sites. Mutational analysis of the promoter shows that CBF binding to an inverted orientation of the CCAAT motif in the topo II promoter, but not to a direct orientation, is required for transcription activation during the cell cycle. In contrast, analysis of the promoter in an in vitro reconstituted transcription system shows that CBF activates transcription of the topo II promoter irrespective of the orientation of the CBF binding sites. This analysis demonstrates that only one of the three transcription start sites of the topo II promoter is stimulated by CBF, indicating that transcription activation by CBF is dependent on basal promoter structure. Interestingly, mutations of the start site that abolish CBF-dependent transcription activation in vitro do not inhibit activation of the promoter during the cell cycle. Consistent with this observation, expression of a truncated CBF-B subunit lacking a transcription activation domain, which inhibits activity of a collagen promoter, does not affect activity of the topo II promoter in fibroblast cells. In contrast, expression of an allele-specific CBF-B mutant that binds high affinity to a mutant CBF binding site containing a CCAAC motif revives transcription activation of an inactive mutant topo II promoter containing CCAAC during the cell cycle. Altogether, this study indicates that CBF binding, but not conventional CBF activation domains, are required for activation of the topo II promoter during the cell cycle. Considering these results together with results of another recent study, we hypothesize that binding of CBF that disrupts the nucleosomal structure in the topo II promoter is a major function of CBF by which it regulates the cell cycle-dependent transcription of the topo II promoter and possibly many other cell cycle-regulated promoters containing CBF binding sites.

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