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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25669-2
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- Wellcome Investigator Award in Science 'Mechanisms and Regulation of RNAP transcription' [WT 207446/Z/17/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [207446/Z/17/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Recruitment of RNA polymerase and initiation factors to the promoter is crucial for transcription activation and repression in archaea. The escape of the transcription elongation complex (TEC) is rate-limiting for transcription output during exponential growth, and changes in TEC escape correlate with changes in the transcriptome under oxidative stress. Impaired TEC escape may lead to premature termination of early TECs and accumulation of initiation factors at the promoter.
Recruitment of RNA polymerase and initiation factors to the promoter is the only known target for transcription activation and repression in archaea. Whether any of the subsequent steps towards productive transcription elongation are involved in regulation is not known. We characterised how the basal transcription machinery is distributed along genes in the archaeon Saccharolobus solfataricus. We discovered a distinct early elongation phase where RNA polymerases sequentially recruit the elongation factors Spt4/5 and Elf1 to form the transcription elongation complex (TEC) before the TEC escapes into productive transcription. TEC escape is rate-limiting for transcription output during exponential growth. Oxidative stress causes changes in TEC escape that correlate with changes in the transcriptome. Our results thus establish that TEC escape contributes to the basal promoter strength and facilitates transcription regulation. Impaired TEC escape coincides with the accumulation of initiation factors at the promoter and recruitment of termination factor aCPSF1 to the early TEC. This suggests two possible mechanisms for how TEC escape limits transcription, physically blocking upstream RNA polymerases during transcription initiation and premature termination of early TECs.
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