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Query: EC:2.7.7.6 (RNA polymerase)
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DNase I footprinting experiments demonstrated that CAP, the cyclic AMP receptor protein of Escherichia coli, binds around position -70 at the promoter of malT, the positive regulator gene of the maltose regulon. The binding of CAP in the presence of cyclic AMP favored the subsequent specific binding of RNA polymerase. Initiation of malT transcription in vitro displayed an absolute requirement for CAP at all tested RNA polymerase concentrations. However this was not the case with a mutant promoter (malTp1), which leads to CAP-independent malT expression in vivo. In that case an effect of CAP was seen only at the lower concentrations of RNA polymerase. These results, which suggest that CAP stimulates malT expression by promoting the binding of polymerase to the promoter, are compared with those obtained in other systems.
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PMID:Action of CAP on the malT promoter in vitro. 631 76

Catalytic properties of the capped RNA-specific endonuclease associated with the influenza virus RNA polymerase were analyzed with use of synthetic hetero- and homopolymers containing 32P-labeled CAP structures at their 5' termini. The endonuclease displays its intrinsic activity provided that substrate RNA contains both the CAP-1 structure (m7GpppGm) and either A or U residues at 9 to 11 nucleotides distant from the CAP structure. Independent recognition of multiple RNA signals by the endonuclease was further supported by the findings that dinucleotide ApG, free CAP structures and RNA without the CAP structure inhibited the endonuclease activity to different extents. In the presence of four species of ribonucleoside 5'-triphosphates, the endonucleolytically cleaved fragments with the CAP-1 structure were incorporated into polynucleotides, supporting the concept that they are used as the primers for the transcription. The initial nucleotide linked to the primers was a G residue, the nucleotide complementary to the second base of the 3' termini of the vRNA segments.
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PMID:RNA polymerase of influenza virus. IV. Catalytic properties of the capped RNA endonuclease associated with the RNA polymerase. 685 61

Electron microscopy was used to monitor the fate of reconstituted nucleosome cores during in vitro transcription of long linear and supercoiled multinucleosomic templates by the prokaryotic T7 RNA polymerase and the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II. Transcription by T7 RNA polymerase disrupted the nucleosomal configuration in the transcribed region, while nucleosomes were preserved upstream of the transcription initiation site and in front of the polymerase. Nucleosome disruption was independent of the topology of the template, linear or supercoiled, and of the presence or absence of nucleosome positioning sequences in the transcribed region. In contrast, the nucleosomal configuration was preserved during transcription from the vitellogenin B1 promoter with RNA polymerase II in a rat liver total nuclear extract. However, the persistence of nucleosomes on the template was not RNA polymerase II-specific, but was dependent on another activity present in the nuclear extract. This was demonstrated by addition of the extract to the T7 RNA polymerase transcription reaction, which resulted in retention of the nucleosomal configuration. This nuclear activity, also found in HeLa cell nuclei, is heat sensitive and could not be substituted by nucleoplasmin, chromatin assembly factor (CAF-I) or a combination thereof. Altogether, these results identify a novel nuclear activity, called herein transcription-dependent chromatin stabilizing activity I or TCSA-I, which may be involved in a nucleosome transfer mechanism during transcription.
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PMID:Fate of linear and supercoiled multinucleosomic templates during transcription. 778 9

The gene structure and expression of the Dfur2 gene of Drosophila melanogaster, which encodes the subtilisin-like serine endoprotease Dfurin2, was studied. The Dfur2 gene is very compact in contrast to the related Dfur1 gene, which has an estimated size of over 100 kbp. The 6-kb Dfur2 mRNA is encoded by 16 exons dispersed over a genomic region of about 9 kbp. The exon/intron organization shows conservation of intron positions not only in comparison with Dfur1, but also with the related mammalian genes FUR, PC1/PC3, PC2, and PC4. This conservation supports the hypothesis that all genes belonging to the family of subtilisin-like pro-protein processing enzymes are evolutionary related by descent from a common ancestral gene. In primer extension experiments, Dfur2 transcription initiation sites were identified in the presumed Dfur2 promoter region. This region was found to contain general RNA polymerase II promoter elements like a potential TATA box, a potential CAP signal, and several potential CCAAT boxes. Also, several sequence motifs putatively corresponding to binding sites for Drosophila transcription factors like zeste, bicoid, and engrailed were found to be present. RNA in situ hybridization experiments on Drosophila embryos revealed presumably maternal Dfur2 expression until the syncytial blastoderm (stage 5 of embryogenesis), no expression during gastrulation (stage 9), transient expression in a subset of neurons in the central nervous system of stage 12-13 embryos, and, from stage 13 onwards, expression in the developing tracheal tree. In a vaccinia expression system, the endoprotease Dfurin2 not only cleaved wild-type precursor of von Willebrand factor (pro-vWF) with pro-region cleavage site R-S-K-R decreases, but also, although to a lesser extent, pro-vWF mutants in which the P2 (vWFK-2A) or P4 (vWFR-4A) basic residue with respect to the pro-region cleavage site had been mutated. This cleavage specificity resembles that of human furin. The cleavage of pro-vWF by Dfurin2 shows that the previously reported lack of cleavage of the precursor of the beta A-chain of activin-A by Dfurin2 in this vaccinia expression system is substrate determined.
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PMID:The Dfur2 gene of Drosophila melanogaster: genetic organization, expression during embryogenesis, and pro-protein processing activity of its translational product Dfurin2. 788 Apr 43

Recent discoveries of activator proteins that distort DNA but bear no obvious activation domains have focused attention on the role of DNA structure in transcriptional regulation. Here we describe how the transcription factor MerR can mediate repression as well as activation through stereospecific modulation of DNA structure. The repressor form of MerR binds between the -10 and -35 promoter elements of the bacterial mercury-detoxification genes, PT, allowing RNA polymerase to form an inactive complex with PT and MerR at this stress-inducible promoter. Upon mercuric ion binding, Hg-MerR converts this polymerase complex into the transcriptionally active or 'open' form. We show here that MerR bends DNA towards itself in a manner similar to the bacterial catabolite-activator protein CAP, namely at two loci demarked by DNase I sensitivity, and that the activator conformation, Hg-MeR, relaxes these bends. This activator-induced unbending, when coupled with the previously described untwisting of the operator, remodels the promoter and makes it a better template for the poised polymerase.
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PMID:DNA-bend modulation in a repressor-to-activator switching mechanism. 788 78

In Class I CAP-dependent promoters, the DNA site for CAP is located upstream of the DNA site for RNA polymerase. In Class II CAP-dependent promoters, the DNA site for CAP overlaps the DNA site for RNA polymerase, replacing the -35 site. We have used an 'oriented heterodimers' approach to identify the functional subunit of CAP at two Class I promoters having different distances between the DNA sites for CAP and RNA polymerase [CC(-61.5) and CC(-72.5)] and at one Class II promoter [CC(-41.5)]. Our results indicate that transcription activation at Class I promoters, irrespective of the distance between the DNA sites for CAP and RNA polymerase, requires the activating region of the promoter-proximal subunit of CAP. In striking contrast, our results indicate that transcription activation at Class II promoters requires the activating region of the promoter-distal subunit of CAP.
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PMID:The functional subunit of a dimeric transcription activator protein depends on promoter architecture. 792 96

Messenger RNAs of higher eukaryotes share a functionally essential 5' monomethyl CAP structure generated during a reaction that is linked exclusively to RNA polymerase II transcription. In unicellular parasites belonging to the Kinetoplastida, however, mRNAs acquire their 5' CAP through a trans-splicing reaction which effectively uncouples pol II transcription and capping. Consequently functional mRNAs can be produced by endogenous RNA polymerase I. Here we demonstrate the extension of this flexibility to heterologous bacteriophage polymerases. Transgenic Trypanosoma brucei cell lines stably expressing functional, nuclearly localized T3 or T7 RNA polymerase were established and assayed using reporter plasmids bearing the corresponding phage promoters. In these cell lines the levels of phage promoter-driven gene expression ranges from one half to greater than 5 times that mediated by endogenous pol I. Analysis of 5' ends of transcripts synthesized by the T7 polymerase revealed that they are trans-spliced. Thus the usual eukaryotic link between mRNA production and pol II transcription can be by-passed by the introduced phage polymerases, thereby significantly expanding the critically small panel of promoters currently available for exploitation in reverse genetic approaches in T. brucei.
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PMID:Gene expression mediated by bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases in transgenic trypanosomes. 793 8

CAP-dependent promoters can be divided into classes based on the position of the DNA site for CAP. In class I CAP-dependent promoters, the DNA site for CAP is located upstream of the DNA site for polymerase; the DNA site for CAP can be located at various distances from the transcription start point, provided that the DNS site for CAP and the DNA site for RNA polymerase are on the same face of the DNA helix. In class II CAP-dependent promoters, the DNA site for CAP overlaps the DNA site for RNA polymerase, replacing the -35 determinants for binding of RNA polymerase. In previous work, we have shown that a surface loop consisting of amino acid residues 152 to 166 of CAP is essential for transcription activation at the best-characterized class I CAP-dependent promoter, the lac promoter, and we proposed that this surface loop makes direct protein-protein contact with RNA polymerase in the ternary complex of lac promoter, CAP, and RNA polymerase. Here, we show that the surface loop consisting of amino acid residues 152 to 166 is essential for transcription activation at other class I CAP-dependent promoters and at a class II CAP-dependent promoter. We show further that the effects of alanine substitutions of residues 152 to 166 are qualitatively identical at the lac promoter and other class I CAP-dependent promoters, but are different at a class II CAP-dependent promoter. We propose that the surface loop consisting of residues 152 to 166 makes identical molecular interactions in transcription activation at all class I CAP-dependent promoters, irrespective of distance between the DNA site for CAP and the transcription start point, but makes a different set of molecular interactions in transcription activation at class II CAP-dependent promoters.
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PMID:Characterization of the activating region of Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein (CAP). II. Role at Class I and class II CAP-dependent promoters. 796 85

We have isolated and characterized single-amino-acid substitution mutants of RNA polymerase alpha subunit defective in CAP-dependent transcription at the lac promoter but not defective in CAP-independent transcription. Our results establish that (1) amino acids 258-265 of alpha constitute an "activation target" essential for CAP-dependent transcription at the lac promoter but not essential for CAP-independent transcription, (2) amino acid 261 is the most critical amino acid of the activation target, (3) amino acid 261 is distinct from the determinants for alpha-DNA interaction, and (4) the activation target may fold as a surface amphipathic alpha-helix. We propose a model for transcriptional activation at the lac promoter that integrates these and other recent results regarding transcriptional activation and RNA polymerase structure and function.
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PMID:Location, structure, and function of the target of a transcriptional activator protein. 800 24

Repression of the lac promoter may be achieved in two different ways: either by interference with the action of RNA polymerase or by interference with CAP activation. We investigated cooperative repression of the Escherichia coli lac operon by systematic conversion of its three natural operators (O1, O2 and O3) on the chromosome. We find that cooperative repression by tetrameric Lac repressor increases with both quality and proximity of the interacting operators. A short distance of 92 bp allows effective repression by two very weak operators (O3, O3). The cooperativity of lac operators is discussed in terms of a local increase of repressor concentration. This increase in concentration depends on flexible DNA which allows loop formation.
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PMID:Quality and position of the three lac operators of E. coli define efficiency of repression. 804 63


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