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GENES & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 17, Issue 10, Pages 1281-1292Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1082103
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RNA polymerase; antitermination; termination; transcription; Q-protein; bacteriophage lambda
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R37 GM038660, R37 GM021941, GM21941, R01 GM038660, R01 GM021941, GM38660] Funding Source: Medline
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Bacteriophage lambda Q-protein stably binds and modifies RNA polymerase (RNAP) to a termination-resistant form. We describe amino acid substitutions in RNAP that disrupt Q-mediated antitermination in vivo and in vitro. The positions of these substitutions in the modeled RNAP/DNA/RNA ternary elongation complex, and their biochemical properties, suggest that they do not define a binding site for Q in RNAP, but instead act by impairing interactions among core RNAP subunits and nucleic acids that are essential for Q modification. A specific conjecture is that Q modification stabilizes interactions of RNAP with the DNA/RNA hybrid and optimizes alignment of the nucleic acids in the catalytic site. Such changes would inhibit the activity of the RNA hairpin of an intrinsic terminator to disrupt the 5'-terminal bases of the hybrid and remove the RNA 3' terminus from the active site.
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