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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 427-437Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02642.x
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 56453] Funding Source: Medline
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Eubacterial RNA polymerase uses the sigma (sigma) subunit for recognition of and transcription initiation from promoter DNA sequences. One family of sigma factors includes those related to the primary a factor from Escherichia coli, sigma (70). Members of the sigma (70) family have four highly conserved domains, of which regions 2 to 4 are present in all members. Region 1 can be subdivided into regions 1.1 and 1.2. Region 1.1 affects DNA binding by sigma (70) alone, as well as transcription initiation by holoenzyme. Region 1.2, present and highly conserved in most sigma factors, has not yet been assigned a putative function, although previous work has demonstrated that it is not required for either association with the core subunits of RNA polymerase or promoter-specific binding by holoenzyme. We generated random single amino acid substitutions targeted to region 1.2 of E. coli sigma (70) as well as a deletion of region 1.2, and characterized the behaviour of the mutant sigma factors both in vivo and in vitro to investigate the function of region 1.2 during transcription initiation. In this study, we show that mutations in region 1.2 can affect promoter binding, open complex and initiated complex formation and the transition from abortive transcription to elongation.
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