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  3. Transcriptional coactivator, CIITA, is an acetyltransferase that bypasses a promoter requirement for TAF(II)250

Transcriptional coactivator, CIITA, is an acetyltransferase that bypasses a promoter requirement for TAF(II)250

  • Mol Cell. 2001 Jan;7(1):105-15. doi: 10.1016/s1097-2765(01)00159-9.
A Raval 1,  T K Howcroft,  J D Weissman,  S Kirshner,  X S Zhu,  K Yokoyama,  J Ting,  D S Singer
Affiliations

Affiliation

  • 1 Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Building 10, Room 4B-36, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
PMID: 11172716 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(01)00159-9
Abstract

The CIITA coactivator is essential for transcriptional activation of MHC class II genes and mediates enhanced MHC class I transcription. We now report that CIITA contains an intrinsic acetyltransferase (AT) activity that maps to a region within the N-terminal segment of CIITA, between Amino acids 94 and 132. The AT activity is regulated by the C-terminal GTP-binding domain and is stimulated by GTP. CIITA-mediated transactivation depends on the AT activity. Further, we report that, although constitutive MHC class I transcription depends on TAF(II)250, CIITA activates the promoter in the absence of functional TAF(II)250.

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