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Vol 50(2016) N 4 p. 621-629; DOI 10.1134/S0026893316040051 B.M. Kirilenko1, E.N. Grineva1, D.S. Karpov1,2*, V.L. Karpov1 Inhibition of the expression of proteasomal genes Saccharomyces cerevisiae by artificial transcriptional repressor 1Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,2Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, 119121 Russia *aleom@yandex.ru Received - 2016-02-12; Accepted - 2016-02-12 26S proteasome is an ATP-dependent protease complex that takes part in cell homeostasis maintenance by the selective degradation of regulatory and damaged proteins. The proteasomal genes expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast is coordinately regulated by the system, which consists of the Rpn4 transcription factor and its binding site, called PACE. The ability to modulate proteasomal activity by changing the expression of its genes is an essential tool that can be used in fundamental studies devoted to the mechanisms of proteasome dependent cell processes, as well as in applied research for developing strategies to correct proteasome activity in some pathological processes. In this work, we present a detailed description of our SaxBricks method that allows one to construct DNA-binding domains with custom specificity from nucleotide- specific TAL domains. Having applied the SaxBricks method, we created a modular transcriptional repressor for Rpn4-dependent genes that effectively suppresses the expression of proteasomal genes. TALE, SaxBricks, Rpn4, proteasomal genes, artificial regulators of transcription |