The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol 120, 613-624, Copyright © 1993 by The Rockefeller University Press

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Mitotic repression of transcription in vitro

P Hartl, J Gottesfeld and DJ Forbes
Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0322.

A normal consequence of mitosis in eukaryotes is the repression of transcription. Using Xenopus egg extracts shifted to a mitotic state by the addition of purified cyclin, we have for the first time been able to reproduce a mitotic repression of transcription in vitro. Active RNA polymerase III transcription is observed in interphase extracts, but strongly repressed in extracts converted to mitosis. With the topoisomerase II inhibitor VM-26, we demonstrate that this mitotic repression of RNA polymerase III transcription does not require normal chromatin condensation. Similarly; in vitro mitotic repression of transcription does not require the presence of nucleosome structure or involve a general repressive chromatin-binding protein, as inhibition of chromatin formation with saturating amounts of non-specific DNA has no effect on repression. Instead, the mitotic repression of transcription appears to be due to phosphorylation of a component of the transcription machinery by a mitotic protein kinase, either cdc2 kinase and/or a kinase activated by it. Mitotic repression of RNA polymerase III transcription is observed both in complete mitotic cytosol and when a kinase-enriched mitotic fraction is added to a highly simplified 5S RNA transcription reaction. We present evidence that, upon depletion of cdc2 kinase, a secondary protein kinase activity remains and can mediate this in vitro mitotic repression of transcription.
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