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Three-dimensional EM structure of an intact activator-dependent transcription initiation complex.


ABSTRACT: We present the experimentally determined 3D structure of an intact activator-dependent transcription initiation complex comprising the Escherichia coli catabolite activator protein (CAP), RNA polymerase holoenzyme (RNAP), and a DNA fragment containing positions -78 to +20 of a Class I CAP-dependent promoter with a CAP site at position -61.5 and a premelted transcription bubble. A 20-A electron microscopy reconstruction was obtained by iterative projection-based matching of single particles visualized in carbon-sandwich negative stain and was fitted using atomic coordinate sets for CAP, RNAP, and DNA. The structure defines the organization of a Class I CAP-RNAP-promoter complex and supports previously proposed interactions of CAP with RNAP alpha subunit C-terminal domain (alphaCTD), interactions of alphaCTD with sigma(70) region 4, interactions of CAP and RNAP with promoter DNA, and phased-DNA-bend-dependent partial wrapping of DNA around the complex. The structure also reveals the positions and shapes of species-specific domains within the RNAP beta', beta, and sigma(70) subunits.

SUBMITTER: Hudson BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2775702 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Three-dimensional EM structure of an intact activator-dependent transcription initiation complex.

Hudson Brian P BP   Quispe Joel J   Lara-González Samuel S   Kim Younggyu Y   Berman Helen M HM   Arnold Eddy E   Ebright Richard H RH   Lawson Catherine L CL  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091110 47


We present the experimentally determined 3D structure of an intact activator-dependent transcription initiation complex comprising the Escherichia coli catabolite activator protein (CAP), RNA polymerase holoenzyme (RNAP), and a DNA fragment containing positions -78 to +20 of a Class I CAP-dependent promoter with a CAP site at position -61.5 and a premelted transcription bubble. A 20-A electron microscopy reconstruction was obtained by iterative projection-based matching of single particles visua  ...[more]

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