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CryoEM of E. coli RNA polymerase Sigma N bound to mismatch DNA fragment dhsU36mm2 (-12A)

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SUBMITTER: Andreas Mueller

PROVIDER: EMPIAR-11521 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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A general mechanism for transcription bubble nucleation in bacteria.

Mueller Andreas U AU Chen James J Wu Mengyu M Chiu Courtney C Nixon B Tracy BT Campbell Elizabeth A EA Darst Seth A SA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20230327 14

Bacterial transcription initiation requires σ factors for nucleation of the transcription bubble. The canonical housekeeping σ factor, σ70, nucleates DNA melting via recognition of conserved bases of the promoter -10 motif, which are unstacked and captured in pockets of σ70. By contrast, the mechanism of transcription bubble nucleation and formation during the unrelated σN-mediated transcription initiation is poorly understood. Herein, we combine structural and b ...[more]

PMID: 36972428

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Project description:BACKGROUND:Escherichia coli cell-free expression systems use bacteriophage RNA polymerases, such as T7, to synthesize large amounts of recombinant proteins. These systems are used for many applications in biotechnology, such as proteomics. Recently, informational processes have been reconstituted in vitro with cell-free systems. These synthetic approaches, however, have been seriously limited by a lack of transcription modularity. The current available cell-free systems have been optimized to work with bacteriophage RNA polymerases, which put significant restrictions to engineer processes related to biological information. The development of efficient cell-free systems with broader transcription capabilities is required to study complex informational processes in vitro. RESULTS:In this work, an efficient cell-free expression system that uses the endogenous E. coli RNA polymerase only and sigma factor 70 for transcription was prepared. Approximately 0.75 mg/ml of Firefly luciferase and enhanced green fluorescent protein were produced in batch mode. A plasmid was optimized with different regulatory parts to increase the expression. In addition, a new eGFP was engineered that is more translatable in cell-free systems than the original eGFP. The protein production was characterized with three different adenosine triphosphate (ATP) regeneration systems: creatine phosphate (CP), phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), and 3-phosphoglyceric acid (3-PGA). The maximum protein production was obtained with 3-PGA. Preparation of the crude extract was streamlined to a simple routine procedure that takes 12 hours including cell culture. CONCLUSIONS:Although it uses the endogenous E. coli transcription machinery, this cell-free system can produce active proteins in quantities comparable to bacteriophage systems. The E. coli transcription provides much more possibilities to engineer informational processes in vitro. Many E. coli promoters/operators specific to sigma factor 70 are available that form a broad library of regulatory parts. In this work, cell-free expression is developed as a toolbox to design and to study synthetic gene circuits in vitro.

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CryoEM of E. coli RNA polymerase Sigma N bound to mismatch DNA fragment dhsU36mm2 (-12A)

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A general mechanism for transcription bubble nucleation in bacteria.

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