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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 49, Pages 47035-47043Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M208923200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM38147, R01 GM038147-14, R01 GM038147] Funding Source: Medline
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We have used synthetic oligomers of DNA and RNA to assemble nucleic acid scaffolds that, when mixed with T7 RNA polymerase, allow the formation of functional transcription complexes. Manipulation of the scaffold structure allows the contribution of each element in the scaffold to transcription activity to be independently determined. The minimal scaffold that allows efficient extension after challenge with 200 mM NaCl consists of an 8-nt RNA primer hybridized to a DNA template (T strand) that extends 5-10 nt downstream. Constructs in which the RNA-DNA hybrid is less than or greater than 8 bp are less salt-resistant, and the hybrid cannot be extended beyond 12-13 bp. Although the presence of a complementary nontemplate strand downstream of the primer does not affect salt resistance, the presence of DNA upstream decreases resistance. The addition of a 4-nt unpaired tail to the 5' end of the primer increases salt resistance, as does the presence of an impaired nontemplate strand in the region that contains the 8-bp hybrid (thereby generating an artificial transcription bubble). Scaffold complexes having these features remain active for over 1 week in the absence of salt and exhibit many of the properties of halted elongation complexes, including resistance to salt challenge, a similar trypsin cleavage pattern, and a similar pattern of RNA-RNA polymerase cross-linking.
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