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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2009-05-30
    Description: Transcribing RNA polymerases oscillate between three stable states, two of which, pre- and posttranslocated, were previously subjected to x-ray crystal structure determination. We report here the crystal structure of RNA polymerase II in the third state, the reverse translocated, or "backtracked" state. The defining feature of the backtracked structure is a binding site for the first backtracked nucleotide. This binding site is occupied in case of nucleotide misincorporation in the RNA or damage to the DNA, and is termed the "P" site because it supports proofreading. The predominant mechanism of proofreading is the excision of a dinucleotide in the presence of the elongation factor SII (TFIIS). Structure determination of a cocrystal with TFIIS reveals a rearrangement whereby cleavage of the RNA may take place.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718261/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2718261/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Dong -- Bushnell, David A -- Huang, Xuhui -- Westover, Kenneth D -- Levitt, Michael -- Kornberg, Roger D -- GM036559/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM041455/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM049985/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 GM085136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 GM085136-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R00 GM085136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM036659/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM041455/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM049985/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM049985-16/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM036659/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM036659-22/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM041455/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM041455-20/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM072970/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1203-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1168729.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19478184" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Pair Mismatch ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Guanosine Monophosphate/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Oligoribonucleotides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; RNA Polymerase II/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*enzymology ; *Transcription, Genetic ; Transcriptional Elongation Factors/chemistry/*metabolism
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2009-12-08
    Description: Previous x-ray crystal structures have given insight into the mechanism of transcription and the role of general transcription factors in the initiation of the process. A structure of an RNA polymerase II-general transcription factor TFIIB complex at 4.5 angstrom resolution revealed the amino-terminal region of TFIIB, including a loop termed the "B finger," reaching into the active center of the polymerase where it may interact with both DNA and RNA, but this structure showed little of the carboxyl-terminal region. A new crystal structure of the same complex at 3.8 angstrom resolution obtained under different solution conditions is complementary with the previous one, revealing the carboxyl-terminal region of TFIIB, located above the polymerase active center cleft, but showing none of the B finger. In the new structure, the linker between the amino- and carboxyl-terminal regions can also be seen, snaking down from above the cleft toward the active center. The two structures, taken together with others previously obtained, dispel long-standing mysteries of the transcription initiation process.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813267/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2813267/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Xin -- Bushnell, David A -- Wang, Dong -- Calero, Guillermo -- Kornberg, Roger D -- AI21144/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM049985/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 GM085136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K99 GM085136-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R00 GM085136/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI021144/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI021144-25/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM036659/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM049985/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM049985-16/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Jan 8;327(5962):206-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1182015. Epub 2009 Nov 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19965383" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Catalytic Domain ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA Polymerase II/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Transcription Factor TFIIB/*chemistry/*metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1998-10-30
    Description: RNA polymerase (RNAP) moves along DNA while carrying out transcription, acting as a molecular motor. Transcriptional velocities for single molecules of Escherichia coli RNAP were measured as progressively larger forces were applied by a feedback-controlled optical trap. The shapes of RNAP force-velocity curves are distinct from those of the motor enzymes myosin or kinesin, and indicate that biochemical steps limiting transcription rates at low loads do not generate movement. Modeling the data suggests that high loads may halt RNAP by promoting a structural change which moves all or part of the enzyme backwards through a comparatively large distance, corresponding to 5 to 10 base pairs. This contrasts with previous models that assumed force acts directly upon a single-base translocation step.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, M D -- Schnitzer, M J -- Yin, H -- Landick, R -- Gelles, J -- Block, S M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Oct 30;282(5390):902-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology and Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9794753" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA, Bacterial/metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Mathematics ; *Models, Chemical ; Molecular Motor Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; RNA, Bacterial/biosynthesis ; RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis ; Templates, Genetic ; Thermodynamics ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 4
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1995-12-08
    Description: The force produced by a single molecule of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase during transcription was measured optically. Polymerase immobilized on a surface was used to transcribe a DNA template attached to a polystyrene bead 0.5 micrometer in diameter. The bead position was measured by interferometry while a force opposing translocation of the polymerase along the DNA was applied with an optical trap. At saturating nucleoside triphosphate concentrations, polymerase molecules stalled reversibly at a mean applied force estimated to be 14 piconewtons. This force is substantially larger than those measured for the cytoskeletal motors kinesin and myosin and exceeds mechanical loads that are estimated to oppose transcriptional elongation in vivo. The data are consistent with efficient conversion of the free energy liberated by RNA synthesis into mechanical work.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yin, H -- Wang, M D -- Svoboda, K -- Landick, R -- Block, S M -- Gelles, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Dec 8;270(5242):1653-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7502073" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Biophysical Phenomena ; Biophysics ; DNA, Bacterial/genetics ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism/*physiology ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics ; Interferometry ; Microspheres ; Nucleotides/metabolism ; Templates, Genetic ; Thermodynamics ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2012-08-04
    Description: Using single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer, we have defined bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) clamp conformation at each step in transcription initiation and elongation. We find that the clamp predominantly is open in free RNAP and early intermediates in transcription initiation but closes upon formation of a catalytically competent transcription initiation complex and remains closed during initial transcription and transcription elongation. We show that four RNAP inhibitors interfere with clamp opening. We propose that clamp opening allows DNA to be loaded into and unwound in the RNAP active-center cleft, that DNA loading and unwinding trigger clamp closure, and that clamp closure accounts for the high stability of initiation complexes and the high stability and processivity of elongation complexes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626110/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3626110/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chakraborty, Anirban -- Wang, Dongye -- Ebright, Yon W -- Korlann, You -- Kortkhonjia, Ekaterine -- Kim, Taiho -- Chowdhury, Saikat -- Wigneshweraraj, Sivaramesh -- Irschik, Herbert -- Jansen, Rolf -- Nixon, B Tracy -- Knight, Jennifer -- Weiss, Shimon -- Ebright, Richard H -- AI072766/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- BB/E023703/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- GM037554/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM069709/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM069937/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM41376/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI072766/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM041376/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM069709/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM041376/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Aug 3;337(6094):591-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1218716.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22859489" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA Polymerase III/*chemistry/drug effects ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer/methods ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ; Protein Conformation ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2013-07-03
    Description: In cells, RNA polymerase (RNAP) must transcribe supercoiled DNA, whose torsional state is constantly changing, but how RNAP deals with DNA supercoiling remains elusive. We report direct measurements of individual Escherichia coli RNAPs as they transcribed supercoiled DNA. We found that a resisting torque slowed RNAP and increased its pause frequency and duration. RNAP was able to generate 11 +/- 4 piconewton-nanometers (mean +/- standard deviation) of torque before stalling, an amount sufficient to melt DNA of arbitrary sequence and establish RNAP as a more potent torsional motor than previously known. A stalled RNAP was able to resume transcription upon torque relaxation, and transcribing RNAP was resilient to transient torque fluctuations. These results provide a quantitative framework for understanding how dynamic modification of DNA supercoiling regulates transcription.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ma, Jie -- Bai, Lu -- Wang, Michelle D -- GM059849/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jun 28;340(6140):1580-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1235441.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physics-Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23812716" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA, Superhelical/*chemistry/*genetics ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/genetics/*metabolism ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Torque ; *Transcription, Genetic
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