The repressor-activator protein 1 (Rap1) binds to [C(1-3)A]n repeats, acts as a transcriptional activator, and represses gene expression at telomeres by binding to the accessory silencing proteins Sir2, Sir3 and Sir4. In the Advance Online Publication of Nature Genetics, Lieb and colleagues, at Stanford University, describe a study to investigate the genome-wide DNA-binding specificity of Rap1 and Sir proteins in vivo (Nature Genetics 2001 DOI:10.1038/ng569). They performed chromatin immunoprecipitation (IP) experiments, followed by whole genome microarray analysis to map protein-DNA interactions (for Rap1, Sir2, Sir3 and Sir4) at a resolution of 2 kb. Rap1 binding localized to 294 loci (representing 5.4% of all yeast genes). Half of the Rap1-binding sites mapped to telomeric regions. Lieb et al. identified 362 ORFs that are adjacent to intergenic Rap1-binding loci. These included known Rap1 targets such as ribosomal protein genes and genes encoding glycolysis enzymes. They identified 185 ORFs next to new Rap1-binding ...
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The repressor-activator protein 1 (Rap1) binds to [C(1-3)A]n repeats, acts as a transcriptional activator, and represses gene expression at telomeres by binding to the accessory silencing proteins Sir2, Sir3 and Sir4. In the Advance Online Publication of Nature Genetics, Lieb and colleagues, at Stanford University, describe a study to investigate the genome-wide DNA-binding specificity of Rap1 and Sir proteins in vivo (Nature Genetics 2001 DOI:10.1038/ng569). They performed chromatin immunopreci
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