期刊
GENES & DEVELOPMENT
卷 14, 期 17, 页码 2242-2255出版社
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS
DOI: 10.1101/gad.794800
关键词
sigma factors; transcription; promoter opening; NtrC; DNA fork junction
资金
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM035754, GM35754] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM035754] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Transcription control at the melting step is not yet understood. Here, band shift, cross-linking, and transcription experiments on diverse DNA probes were used with two bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzymes that differ in how they regulate melting. Data indicated that both sigma(54) and sigma(70) holoenzymes assume a default closed form that cannot establish single-strand binding. Upon activation the enzymes are converted to an open form that can bind simultaneously to the upstream fork junction and to the melted transcription start site. The key difference is that sigma(54) imposes tighter regulation by creating a complex molecular switch at -12/-11; the current data show that this switch can be thrown by activator. In this case an ATP-bound enhancer protein causes sigma(54) to alter its cross-linking pattern near -11 and also causes a reorganization of holoenzyme: DNA interactions, detected by electrophoretic mobility-shift assay. At a temperature-dependent sigma(70) promoter, elevated temperature alone can assist in triggering conformational changes that enhance the engagement of single-strand DNA. Thus, the two sigma factors modify the same intrinsic opening pathway to create quite different mechanisms of transcriptional regulation.
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