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Structural similarity between TAFs and the heterotetrameric core of the histone octamer

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A complex of two TFIID TATA box-binding protein-associated factors (TAFIIs) is described at 2.0 Å resolution. The amino-terminal portions of dTAFII42 and dTAFII62 from Drosophila adopt the canonical histone fold, consisting of two short α-helices flanking a long central α-helix. Like histones H3 and H4, dTAFII42 and dTAFII62 form an intimate heterodimer by extensive hydrophobic contacts between the paired molecules. In solution and in the crystalline state, the dTAFII42/dTAFII62 complex exists as a heterotetramer, resembling the (H3/H4)2 heterotetrameric core of the histone octamer, suggesting that TFIID contains a histone octamer-like substructure.

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  1. Tetsuro Kokubo

    Present address: Division of Gene Function in Animals, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-01, Japan

  2. Alexander Hoffmann

    Present address: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

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  1. Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    Xiaoling Xie & Stephen K. Burley

  2. Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    Steven L. Cohen, Urooj A. Mirza & Brian T. Chait

  3. Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    Alexander Hoffmann & Robert G. Roeder

  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, New York, 10021, USA

    Xiaoling Xie & Stephen K. Burley

  5. National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, USA

    Tetsuro Kokubo & Yoshihiro Nakatani

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Xie, X., Kokubo, T., Cohen, S. et al. Structural similarity between TAFs and the heterotetrameric core of the histone octamer. Nature 380, 316–322 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/380316a0

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