SPT10 and SPT21 Are Required for Transcription of Particular Histone Genes in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

Overview

Journal Mol Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 1994 Aug 1

PMID 8035801

Citations 57

Authors

C DOLLARD

G Natsoulis

J D Boeke

F Winston

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Abstract

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome contains four loci that encode histone proteins. Two of these loci, HTA1-HTB1 and HTA2-HTB2, each encode histones H2A and H2B. The other two loci, HHT1-HHF1 and HHT2-HHF2, each encode histones H3 and H4. Because of their redundancy, deletion of any one histone locus does not cause lethality. Previous experiments demonstrated that mutations at one histone locus, HTA1-HTB1, do cause lethality when in conjunction with mutations in the SPT10 gene. SPT10 has been shown to be required for normal levels of transcription of several genes in S. cerevisiae. Motivated by this double-mutant lethality, we have now investigated the interactions of mutations in SPT10 and in a functionally related gene, SPT21, with mutations at each of the four histone loci. These experiments have demonstrated that both SPT10 and SPT21 are required for transcription at two particular histone loci, HTA2-HTB2 and HHF2-HHT2, but not at the other two histone loci. These results suggest that under some conditions, S. cerevisiae may control the level of histone proteins by differential expression of its histone genes.

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