Olivia Parra-Marín, Karla López-Pacheco, Roberto Hernández, Imelda López-Villaseñor
Molecular and biochemical parasitology 2020 SepTranscription is the first step of gene expression regulation and is a fundamental mechanism for establishing the viability and development of a cell. The TATA box-binding protein (TBP) interaction with a TATA box in a promoter is one of the best studied mechanisms in transcription initiation. TBP is a transcription factor that is highly conserved from archaea to humans and is essential for the transcription initiated by each of the three RNA polymerases. In addition, the discovery of TBP-related factor 1 (TRF1) and other factors related to TBP shed light on the variability among transcription initiation complexes, thus demonstrating that the compositions of these complexes are, in fact, more complicated than originally believed. Despite these facts, the majority of studies on transcription have been performed on animal, plant and fungal cells, which serve as canonical models, and information regarding protist cells is relatively scarce. The aim of this work is to review the diversity of the TBPs that have been documented in protists and describe some of the specific features that differentiate them from their counterparts in higher eukaryotes. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Olivia Parra-Marín, Karla López-Pacheco, Roberto Hernández, Imelda López-Villaseñor. The highly diverse TATA box-binding proteins among protists: A review. Molecular and biochemical parasitology. 2020 Sep;239:111312
PMID: 32771681
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