Escherichia coli RNA polymerase terminates transcription efficiently at rho-independent terminators on single-stranded DNA templates

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Uptain, SM [1 ]
Chamberlin, MJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY,DEPT MOL & CELL BIOL,DIV BIOCHEM & MOL BIOL,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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10.1073/pnas.94.25.13548
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Several models have bi en proposed for the mechanism of transcript: termination Escherichia coli RNA polymerase at rho-independent terminators, Yager and von Hippel (Yager, T. D. & von Hippel, P. H. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 1097-118) postulated that the transcription complex is stabilized by enzyme-nucleic acid interactions and the favorable free energy of a 12-bp RNA-DNA hybrid but is destabilized by the free energy required to maintain an extended transcription bubble. Termination, by their model, is viewed simply as displacement of the RNA transcript from the hybrid helix by reformation of the DNA helix. We have proposed an alternative model where the RNA transcript is stably bound to RNA polymerase primarily through interact ions with two single-strand specific RNA-binding sites: termination is triggered by formation of an RNA hairpin that reduces binding of the RNA to one RNA-binding site and, ultimately leads to its ejection from the complex, To distinguish between these models, we have tested whether E. coli RNA polymerase can terminate transcription at rho-independent terminators on single-stranded DNA. RNA polymerase cannot form a transcription bubble on these templates; thus, the Yager-von Hippel model predicts that intrinsic termination will nor occur. We find that transcript elongation on single-stranded DNA templates is hindered somewhat by DNA secondary structure. However, E. coli RNA polymerase efficiently terminates and releases transcripts at several rho-independent terminators on such templates at: the same positions as termination occurs on duplex DNAs, Therefore, neither the nontranscribed DNA strand nor the transcription bubble is essential for rho-independent termination by E. coli RNA polymerase.
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