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NATURE
卷 594, 期 7861, 页码 129-+出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03555-7
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- Peter-and-Traudl-Engelhorn postdoctoral fellowship
- H2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship [894862]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [EXC 2067/1 39072994, SFB860, SPP2191]
- ERC Advanced Investigator Grant CHROMATRANS [882357]
- European Research Council (ERC) [882357] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [894862] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
Mediator is a conserved coactivator complex involved in the regulated initiation of transcription at eukaryotic genes. It interacts with transcriptional activators to stimulate RNA polymerase II phosphorylation and promoter escape. The complex structure involves various modules that can affect the activity conformation of CDK7 kinase.
Mediator is a conserved coactivator complex that enables the regulated initiation of transcription at eukaryotic genes(1-3). Mediator is recruited by transcriptional activators and binds the pre-initiation complex (PIC) to stimulate the phosphorylation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and promoter escape(1-6). Here we prepare a recombinant version of human Mediator, reconstitute a 50-subunit Mediator-PIC complex and determine the structure of the complex by cryo-electron microscopy. The head module of Mediator contacts the stalk of Pol II and the general transcription factors TFIIB and TFIIE, resembling the Mediator-PIC interactions observed in the corresponding complex in yeast(7-9). The metazoan subunits MED27-MED30 associate with exposed regions in MED14 and MED17 to form the proximal part of the Mediator tail module that binds activators. Mediator positions the flexibly linked cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)-activating kinase of the general transcription factor TFIIH near the linker to the C-terminal repeat domain of Pol II. The Mediator shoulder domain holds the CDK-activating kinase subunit CDK7, whereas the hook domain contacts a CDK7 element that flanks the kinase active site. The shoulder and hook domains reside in the Mediator head and middle modules, respectively, which can move relative to each other and may induce an active conformation of the CDK7 kinase to allosterically stimulate phosphorylation of the C-terminal domain.
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