Abstract
First step of gene expression is transcribing the genetic information stored in DNA to RNA by the transcription machinery including RNA polymerase (RNAP). In Escherichia coli, a primary70 factor forms the RNAP holoenzyme to express housekeeping genes. The 70 contains a large insertion between the conserved regions 1.2 and 2.1, the non-conserved region (NCR), but its function remains to be elucidated. In this study, we determined the cryo-EM structures of the E. coli RNAP70 holoenzyme and its complex with promoter DNA (open complex, RPo) at 4.2 and 5.75 Å resolutions, respectively, to reveal native conformations of RNAP and DNA. The RPo structure presented here found an interaction between theNCR and promoter DNA just upstream of the 10 element, which was not observed in a previously determined E. coli RNAP transcription initiation complex (RPo plus short RNA) structure by X-ray crystallography because of restraint of crystal packing effects. Disruption of theNCR and DNA interaction by the amino acid substitutions (R157A/R157E) influences the DNA opening around the transcription start site and therefore decreases the transcription activity of RNAP. We propose that the NCR and DNA interaction is conserved in proteobacteria, and RNAP in other bacteria replaces its role with a transcription factor.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 7367-7375 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Biological Chemistry |
| Volume | 293 |
| Issue number | 19 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
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Cryo-EM structure of Escherichia coli 70 RNA polymerase and promoter DNA complex revealed a role of non-conserved region during the open complex formation. / Narayanan, Anoop; Vago, Frank S.; Li, Kunpeng; Qayyum, M. Zuhaib; Yernool, Dinesh; Jiang, Wen; Murakami, Katsuhiko.
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T1 - Cryo-EM structure of Escherichia coli 70 RNA polymerase and promoter DNA complex revealed a role of non-conserved region during the open complex formation
AU - Narayanan, Anoop
AU - Vago, Frank S.
AU - Li, Kunpeng
AU - Qayyum, M. Zuhaib
AU - Yernool, Dinesh
AU - Jiang, Wen
AU - Murakami, Katsuhiko
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - First step of gene expression is transcribing the genetic information stored in DNA to RNA by the transcription machinery including RNA polymerase (RNAP). In Escherichia coli, a primary70 factor forms the RNAP holoenzyme to express housekeeping genes. The 70 contains a large insertion between the conserved regions 1.2 and 2.1, the non-conserved region (NCR), but its function remains to be elucidated. In this study, we determined the cryo-EM structures of the E. coli RNAP70 holoenzyme and its complex with promoter DNA (open complex, RPo) at 4.2 and 5.75 Å resolutions, respectively, to reveal native conformations of RNAP and DNA. The RPo structure presented here found an interaction between theNCR and promoter DNA just upstream of the 10 element, which was not observed in a previously determined E. coli RNAP transcription initiation complex (RPo plus short RNA) structure by X-ray crystallography because of restraint of crystal packing effects. Disruption of theNCR and DNA interaction by the amino acid substitutions (R157A/R157E) influences the DNA opening around the transcription start site and therefore decreases the transcription activity of RNAP. We propose that the NCR and DNA interaction is conserved in proteobacteria, and RNAP in other bacteria replaces its role with a transcription factor.
AB - First step of gene expression is transcribing the genetic information stored in DNA to RNA by the transcription machinery including RNA polymerase (RNAP). In Escherichia coli, a primary70 factor forms the RNAP holoenzyme to express housekeeping genes. The 70 contains a large insertion between the conserved regions 1.2 and 2.1, the non-conserved region (NCR), but its function remains to be elucidated. In this study, we determined the cryo-EM structures of the E. coli RNAP70 holoenzyme and its complex with promoter DNA (open complex, RPo) at 4.2 and 5.75 Å resolutions, respectively, to reveal native conformations of RNAP and DNA. The RPo structure presented here found an interaction between theNCR and promoter DNA just upstream of the 10 element, which was not observed in a previously determined E. coli RNAP transcription initiation complex (RPo plus short RNA) structure by X-ray crystallography because of restraint of crystal packing effects. Disruption of theNCR and DNA interaction by the amino acid substitutions (R157A/R157E) influences the DNA opening around the transcription start site and therefore decreases the transcription activity of RNAP. We propose that the NCR and DNA interaction is conserved in proteobacteria, and RNAP in other bacteria replaces its role with a transcription factor.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.RA118.002161
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JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
SN - 0021-9258
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