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The characterization of the TFIIIA synthesized in somatic cells of Xenopus laevis.

Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland 21210.

Abstract

In somatic cells of Xenopus, transcription of the TFIIIA gene initiates greater than 200 bp upstream from the start site used in oocytes. The resultant mRNA encodes a protein, S-TFIIIA, that is 22 amino acids longer at its amino terminus than the abundant form of TFIIIA in oocytes (O-TFIIIA). S-TFIIIA binds the 5S RNA gene and 5S RNA, and both O- and S-TFIIIA promote the formation of stable transcription complexes on oocyte-type 5S RNA genes in an oocyte nuclear extract. We have not found any functional difference between the two forms of TFIIIA. Different transcription start sites suggest differential promoter usage--one in oocytes that permits high levels of gene activity and another that is used in somatic cells for low-level TFIIIA mRNA synthesis.

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