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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on February 3, 2005.
Genetics, Vol. 169, 1903-1914, April 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.036723
Gal80 Dimerization and the Yeast GAL Gene Switch
Vepkhia Pilauri, Maria Bewley, Cuong Diep and James Hopper1
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
1 Corresponding author: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, H171, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 500 University Dr., Hershey, PA 17033.
E-mail: jhopper{at}psu.edu
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gal80 protein has two binding partners: Gal4 and Gal3. In the absence of galactose, Gal80 binds to and inhibits the transcriptional activation domain (AD) of the GAL gene activator, Gal4, preventing GAL gene expression. Galactose triggers an association between Gal3 and Gal80, relieving Gal80 inhibition of Gal4. We selected for GAL80 mutants with impaired capacity of Gal80 to bind to Gal3 or Gal4AD. Most Gal80 variants selected for impaired binding to Gal4AD retained their capacity to bind to Gal3 and to self-associate, whereas most of those selected for impaired binding to Gal3 lost their ability to bind to Gal4AD and self-associate. Thus, some Gal80 amino acids are determinants for both the Gal80-Gal3 association and the Gal80 self-association, and Gal80 self-association may be required for binding to Gal4AD. We propose that the binding of Gal3 to the Gal80 monomer competes with Gal80 self-association, reducing the amount of the Gal80 dimer available for inhibition of Gal4.
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