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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-17
pubmed:abstractText
HIV gene expression is subject to a transcriptional checkpoint, whereby negative transcription elongation factors induce an elongation block that is overcome by HIV Tat protein in conjunction with P-TEFb. P-TEFb is a cyclin-dependent kinase that catalyzes Tat-dependent phosphorylation of Ser-5 of the Pol II C-terminal domain (CTD). Ser-5 phosphorylation confers on the CTD the ability to recruit the mammalian mRNA capping enzyme (Mce1) and stimulate its guanylyltransferase activity. Here we show that Tat spearheads a second and novel pathway of capping enzyme recruitment and activation via a direct physical interaction between the C-terminal domain of Tat and Mce1. Tat stimulates the guanylyltransferase and triphosphatase activities of Mce1 and thereby enhances the otherwise low efficiency of cap formation on a TAR stem-loop RNA. Our findings suggest that multiple mechanisms exist for coupling transcription elongation and mRNA processing.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
276
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
12959-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Gene Products, tat, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-HIV Long Terminal Repeat, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-HIV-1, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Kinetics, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Mammals, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Nucleic Acid Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Nucleotidyltransferases, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Phosphoserine, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-RNA Polymerase II, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-Ribonucleases, pubmed-meshheading:11278368-tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
HIV-1 Tat protein interacts with mammalian capping enzyme and stimulates capping of TAR RNA.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.