Sfp1 regulates yeast cell growth and division through multiple promoter binding modes
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ABSTRACT: Understanding how transcriptional programs help to coordinate cell growth and division is an important unresolved problem. Here we report that the nutrient- and stress-regulated transcription factor Sfp1 is rate-limiting for expression of a large suite of genes involved in yeast cell growth, including ribosomal protein, ribosome biogenesis, and snoRNA genes. Remarkably, the spectrum of Sfp1 transcription effects is concordant with a combination of chromatin immunoprecipitation and chromatin endogenous cleavage binding analyses, which together provide evidence for two distinct modes of Sfp1 promoter binding, one requiring a co-factor and the other a specific DNA-recognition motif. In addition to growth-related genes, Sfp1 binds to and regulates the promoters of key G1/S regulon genes and that of MRS6, whose product regulates Sfp1 nuclear localization. Our findings suggest that Sfp1 acts as a master regulator of cell growth and cell size by coordinating the expression of genes implicated in mass accumulation and cell division.
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PROVIDER: GSE118561 | GEO | 2019/03/08
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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