The plant corepressor TPL is recruited to diverse chromatin contexts, yet its mechanism of repression remains unclear. Previously, we leveraged the fact that TPL retains its function in a synthetic transcriptional circuit in the yeast model Saccharomyces cerevisiae to localize repressive function to two distinct domains. Here, we employed two unbiased whole-genome approaches to map the physical and genetic interactions of TPL at a repressed locus. We identified SPT4, SPT5, and SPT6 as necessary for repression with SPT4 acting as a bridge connecting TPL to SPT5 and SPT6. We discovered the association of multiple additional constituents of the transcriptional preinitiation complex at TPL-repressed promoters, specifically those involved early in transcription initiation. These findings were validated in yeast and plants, including a novel method to analyze the conditional loss of function of essential genes in plants. Our findings support a model where TPL nucleates preassembly of the transcription activation machinery to facilitate the rapid onset of transcription once repression is relieved.

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