@article {1458, title = {Transcription regulation of a yeast gene from a downstream location.}, journal = {J Mol Biol}, volume = {425}, year = {2013}, month = {2013 Feb 8}, pages = {457-65}, abstract = {

Mechanisms for coregulation of transcription of tandem genes in yeast remain largely speculative. This study focused on inositol-mediated regulation of the tandem gene pair SNA3-INO1. While the pattern of regulation of these two genes was similar, results showed that intermediate levels of inositol repressed INO1 and induced SNA3. Results also showed that inositol-mediated regulation of the SNA3 gene was not a function of its promoter but occurred from factors within the SNA3-INO1 intergenic region. The basic helix-loop-helix proteins, Ino2p and Ino4p, mediated this regulation through the upstream activation sequence (UAS)(INO) (E-box) sequences in the intergenic region. These results provide a model for studying coregulation of yeast tandem genes. This is especially significant given that many tandem gene pairs in yeast are coregulated even though context-specific UAS sequences are known only for one gene in the pair.

}, keywords = {Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, Inositol, Membrane Proteins, Myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate Synthase, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Transcription, Genetic}, issn = {1089-8638}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmb.2012.11.018}, author = {Shetty, Ameet and Swaminathan, Aishwarya and Lopes, John M} }