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Query: EC:2.7.7.6 (RNA polymerase)
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DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli contains 2 mol of zinc/mol of holoenzyme (alpha 2 beta beta' sigma) with one zinc each in the beta and beta' subunits. A new method to substitute selectively the zinc in the beta subunit was developed by the inactivation of RNA polymerase with 0.25 M NaNO3, 1 M NaCl, 1 mM diaminocyclohexane tetraacetic acid, and 0.1 mM dithiothreitol followed by reconstitution with Co(II), Cd(II), or Cu(II). The hybrid Co-Zn, Cd-Zn, or Cu-Zn RNA polymerase thus obtained retains, respectively, 91, 88, and 50% enzyme activity of the reconstituted Zn-Zn RNA polymerase. Co-Zn RNA polymerase exhibits absorption maxima at 395 and 465 nm, and Cu-Zn RNA polymerase at 637 nm (epsilon = 815 M-1 cm-1). 1-Aminonaphthalene-5-sulfonic acid (AmNS) derivatives of ATP, UTP, and dinucleoside monophosphates (diNMPs), UpA or ApU, were synthesized with AmNS attached to NTP via a gamma-phosphoamidate bond or to diNMPs via a 5'-secondary amine linkage. Since the fluorescence emission maxima of (5'-AmNS)UpA, (gamma-AmNS)ATP, and (gamma-AmNS)UTP at 445, 464, and 464 nm, respectively, when excited at 340 nm, overlap the 465-nm absorption band of Co-Zn RNA polymerase, the spatial relationship between fluorescence substrate analogs and the intrinsic Co(II) in Co-Zn RNA polymerase was studied by fluorescence resonance energy transfer technique. The fluorescence of the initiator, (5'-AmNS)UpA, and elongator, (gamma-AmNS)UTP, of the RNA chain, was quenched 20.3 and 7.1%, by the addition of saturation concentration of Zn-Zn RNA polymerase, and 21.3 and 14.7%, respectively, by the addition of template, poly(dA-dT). The fluorescence of (5'-AmNS)UpA and (gamma-AmNS)UTP was quenched 81.8 and 80.6%, respectively, by the addition of the saturation concentration of Co-Zn RNA polymerase in the absence of template, and 82.7 and 82.9% in the presence of template. On the basis of respective Ro values of 21.3 and 21.9 A for the (5'-AmNS)UpA-Co and (gamma-AmNS)UTP-Co pairs, the distances from Co(II) to the initiation site and to the elongation site were calculated to be 17.4 and 17.5 A, respectively, in the absence and 17.2 and 17.4 A in the presence of template.
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PMID:Fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies on the proximity relationship between the intrinsic metal ion and substrate binding sites of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. 330 70

RNA polymerase was treated in the presence of promoter-containing templates with 16 affinity reagents, derivatives on NMPs, NDPs and NTPs with reactive substituents at the terminal phosphate. This treatment was followed by addition of a pyrimidine [alpha-32P]NTP. Due to 'catalytic competence' of some of the residues of the affinity reagents bound covalently near the active center at the first stage, active-center-catalyzed synthesis of a phosphodiester bond occurred, and radioactive residues with the general formula -pNpN (where p = radioactive phosphate) appeared covalently attached to the enzyme. Such affinity labelling was super-selective because affinity reagent residues bound outside the active center were not elongated and thus remained non-radioactive. Labelling took place only when the combination of the reagent and [alpha-32P]NTP corresponded to the sequence of nucleotides of the promoter. With reagents having short 'arms', only the beta subunit was labelled; the targets were His and/or Lys residues. With reagents having longer 'arms', the sigma subunit was also labelled.
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PMID:Studies on the functional topography of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. Highly selective affinity labelling by analogues of initiating substrates. 354 23

Reovirus virions, grown in suspension cultures of L cells and extensively purified by density gradient and velocity gradient centrifugation after their release from cell debris by fluorocarbon extraction, are characterized by a mean particle diameter of 73 nm and a density in CsCl of 1.36 to 1.37 g/cm(3). Treatment of intact virions by chymotrypsin (CHT) digestion in vitro converts them to subviral particles (SVP) having characteristics which are determined by the species of monovalent cation present during the digestion. In the presence of Cs(+) ions, CHT converts the virions to SVP of mean diameter 51 nm and density 1.43 to 1.44 g/cm(3). In the presence of K(+) ions, the conversion is to SVP of diameter 51 nm and density 1.39 to 1.40 g/cm(3). The SVP made in the presence of either Cs(+) or K(+) possess an extremely active RNA polymerase and nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase (NTPase) activity in vitro and are resistant to further digestion by CHT. Treatment of intact virions with CHT in the presence of Na(+) or Li(+) ions results in their conversion to SVP of mean diameter 64 nm and density 1.37 to 1.38 g/cm(3). Such SVP are not active in in vitro RNA synthesis or NTP hydrolysis and are resistant to further digestion by CHT even during prolonged exposure to high concentrations of enzyme. Addition of Cs(+) or K(+) ions to the digestion mixture allows conversion of the 64-nm diameter SVP to 51-nm diameter SVP in which the RNA polymerase and NTPase are active in vitro. Analysis of the proteins present in intact virions and in the different SVP reveals clear differences which indicate that the conversions are accomplished by removal or cleavage of particular species of polypeptides.
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PMID:New intermediate subviral particles in the in vitro uncoating of reovirus virions by chymotrypsin. 434 95

DNA-directed RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli can break down RNA by catalysing the reverse of the reaction: NTP + (RNA)n = (RNA)n+1 + PPi where n indicates the number of nucleotide residues in the RNA molecule, to yield nucleoside triphosphates. This reaction requires the ternary complex of the polymerase with template DNA and the RNA that it has synthesized. It is now shown that methylenebis(arsonic acid) [CH2(AsO3H2)2], arsonomethylphosphonic acid (H2O3As-CH2-PO3H2) and arsonoacetic acid (H2O3As-CH2-CO2H) can replace pyrophosphate in this reaction. When they do so, the low-Mr products of the reaction prove to be nucleoside 5'-phosphates, so that the arsenical compounds endow the polymerase with an artificial exonuclease activity, an effect previously found by Rozovskaya, Chenchik, Tarusova, Bibilashvili & Khomutov [(1981) Mol. Biol. (Moscow) 15, 636-652] for phosphonoacetic acid (H2O3P-CH2-CO2H). This is explained by instability of the analogues of nucleoside triphosphates believed to be the initial products. Specificity of recognition of pyrophosphate is discussed in terms of the sites, beta and gamma, for the -PO3H2 groups of pyrophosphate that will yield P-beta and P-gamma of the nascent nucleoside triphosphate. Site gamma can accept -AsO3H2 in place of -PO3H2, but less well; site beta can accept both, and also -CO2H. We suggest that partial transfer of an Mg2+ ion from the attacking pyrophosphate to the phosphate of the internucleotide bond of the RNA may increase the nucleophilic reactivity of the pyrophosphate and the electrophilicity of the diester, so that the reaction is assisted.
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PMID:The mechanism of pyrophosphorolysis of RNA by RNA polymerase. Endowment of RNA polymerase with artificial exonuclease activity. 608 81

The effects of pyrophosphate on RNA binding and ATPase activities of Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho have been studied. Mutant rho-115 protein has a temperature-sensitive RNA-dependent ATPase activity due to the thermolability of binding to RNA [Kent, R.B. & Guterman, S.K. (1981) Fed. Proc. Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol. 40, 1765 (abstr.)]. The presence of either ATP or pyrophosphate at comparable concentrations stabilizes the binary complex of rho and poly(C) at high temperature. ADP at 8-fold greater concentration also stabilizes the mutant rho-RNA binary complex. Pyrophosphate is a noncompetitive inhibitor (Ki = 0.07 mM) of rho poly(C)-dependent ATPase, an activity that is required for rho-mediated termination. These results suggest the existence of a regulatory site on the rho molecule. We suggest that rho NTPase is regulated by RNA polymerase (EC 2.7.7.6) so that during transcription elongation the RNA polymerase competes successfully with rho for substrates and inhibits rho NTPase with product pyrophosphate. Further, RNA polymerase pausing may result in reduced pyrophosphate and increased NTP concentrations, allowing rho NTPase to function.
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PMID:Pyrophosphate inhibition of rho ATPase: a mechanism of coupling to RNA polymerase activity. 612 40

We have studied elongation of SV40 DNA F1 by E. coli RNA polymerase looking specifically at the length of the transcript as a function of time. By running the transcription reactions at 18 degrees C with limited enzyme and adding heparin or rifampicin after elongation has started, we have achieved almost exclusive initiation from the SV40 DNA preferred promotor size [Zain, B. S., Weissmann, S. M., Lebowitz, P., & Lewis, A. M., Jr. (1973) J. Virol. 11, 682-693]. In the region within 1500 nucleotides of the initiation we observe nine prominent sites and a number of minor site where hesitation during elongation occurs. The positions of these hesitation points or pause sites are not effected by changes in the salt concentration, the simultaneous lowering of the concentrations of all the NTPs, or by increases in the RNA polymerase concentration, implying that the pause sites are a consequence of the RNA, DNA, and RNA polymerase ternary complex. The pause sites are not an artifact of the lowered temperature (18 degrees C) used in the experiments since they are also observed at 37 degrees C. The first four of these sites have been sequenced by using the 3'-O-methyl analogues of the ribonucleotide triphosphates. We have found no sequence homology between the pause sites. The kinetics of the pause reactions do not fit a first-order model but do correspond to a scheme were continuation through a pause site and termination at a pause site are both represented. For one of the pause sites, the relaxation time for continuation through the pause site was determined to be approximately 2.5 min and for the termination approximately 50 min at 18 degrees C. If the concentration of one of the NTPs is lowered to 10 muM, the strength of a pause site can be increased if that NTP is contained in the pause. Also, minor pause sites are observed at regions in the RNA sequence which are rich in the NTP that has the lowered concentration. When GTP is replaced by ITP during transcription, a new set of pause site quite different from the normal sites of hesitation are observed. The major new pause sites occur at or near sequences in the RNA which are rich in I-U residues preceded by a region rich in C residues. This indicates, as has been previously noted, that sequences where the DNA.RNA hybrid is quite stable followed by a region that is very unstable may cause termination. When BrUTP replaced UTP, very little effect was observed on the pause sites. The addition of p termination factor causes termintion to increase in all the pause sites with a length greater than 300 nucleotides. In the type of experiments performed here, those pause sites had continuation relaxation times greater than 45 s at 37 degrees C. This implies that regardless of the nature of a pause, p will cause at least some termination at all hesitation sites with a relaxation time greater than 45 s. All the results are discussed in terms of a kinetic model for the termination of elongation.
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PMID:Escherichia coli deoxyribonucleic acid dependent ribonucleic acid polymerase transcriptional pause sites on SV40 DNA F1. 701 6

Various base and sugar modified derivatives of ATP and UTP were used as substrate analogs for the steady state initiation reaction ATP+UTP=pppApU and the single step addition reaction ApC+ATP=ApCpA. These reactions were carried out by E. coli RNA polymerase on T7 DNA in the presence of rifampicin. The steady state kinetic parameters of the analogs, either as substrates or inhibitors, were determined. On the basis of the obtained results it is concluded that purine NTP s in initiation require anti-conformation about the glycosidic bonds as well as gauche-gauche conformation of the C(4')-C(5') bonds. The latter conformation is also a prerequisite for substrates in elongation, whereas strict anti-conformation of glycosidic bonds is not.
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PMID:The properties of ATP-analogs in initiation of RNA synthesis catalyzed by RNA polymerase from E coli. 701 55

P3-[(2,4-Dinitrophenyl)amino]ethyl (DNPNHEt) and P3-methyl phosphate esters of nucleoside 5'-triphosphates have been synthesized. Their properties as substrates in the initiation and elongation steps of transcription have been examined by using RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli and poly[d(A-T)] or T7 DNA as templates. It is shown that transcription can be initiated by ATP-EtNHDNP and that 2,4-dinitrophenyl residues are incorporated at the 5' end of the RNA molecules. Steady-state kinetic experiments of abortive initation on promoters A1 and A3 of T7 DNA revealed that ATP-EtNHDNP, ADP-EtNHDNP, and ATP-OCH3 have lower Km values and markedly reduced Vmax values compared to those of ATP. The two classes of esters, NTR-EtNHDNP and NTP-OCH3, were found to differ regarding their utilization as substrates for elongation. Both ATP-OCH3 and UTP-OCH3 are substrates for transcription. However, only the pyrimidine derivatives of NTP-EtNHDNP are elongation substrates which release DNPNHEt-PP upon utilization. This dramatic difference between the purine and pyrimidine derivatives of NTP-EtNHDNP reflects a selective process in the transcriptional complex for purines and pyrimidines.
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PMID:Properties of P3 esters of nucleoside triphosphates as substrates for RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli. 702 6

Influence of NTP analogs with the modified sugar residue on RNA synthesis catalyzed by E. coli RNA polymerase was studied. It was shown that analog with ribose residue substituted by hydrocarbon chain (-CH2-)2,3,4 as well as the analogs with opened ribose ring do not incorporate into the RNA chain. These compounds imped RNA elongation (Ki = 1.5--2.0 . 10(-3) M) due to their ability for reversible binding with the enzyme. These analogs inhibit the incorporation of all four natural NTP into RNA to the same extent, independently on the nature of the bases. In contrast, 3'-substituted analogs of NTP compete only with the homologous substrate for incorporation into RNA. The 3'-OMe-NTP incorporate into 3'-end of RNA and stop RNA propagation. The rate of 3'-OMe-NTP incorporation into RNA is 50--100 times lower, than that of the natural substrates.
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PMID:[Nucleotide analogs with modified sugar residue, in the RNA synthesis reaction of RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli]. 704 64

In the absence of DNA, purified yeast RNA polymerase II can bind RNA to form a binary complex. RNA in such RNA-RNA polymerase complexes undergoes reactions previously thought to be unique to nascent RNA in ternary complexes with DNA, including TFIIS-dependent cleavage and elongation by 3'-terminal addition of NMP from NTP. Both of these reactions are inhibited by alpha-amanitin. Hence, by several criteria the RNA in binary complexes is bound to the polymerase in a manner quite similar to that in ternary complexes in which the catalytic site for nucleotide addition is positioned at or near the 3'-OH terminus of the RNA. These findings are consistent with a model for the RNA polymerase ternary complex in which the RNA is bound at the 3' terminus through two protein-binding sites located up to 10 nt apart.
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PMID:Complexes of yeast RNA polymerase II and RNA are substrates for TFIIS-induced RNA cleavage. 751 57


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