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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
43
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Two classes of RNA polymerases transcribe RNA from promoters on DNA templates: promoter recognition-competent single polypeptides and multisubunit enzymes that require separable promoter recognition factors. Eukaryotic mitochondria utilize an unusual hybrid of these classes composed of a "core" RNA polymerase related to the single polypeptide enzymes plus a "specificity factor" necessary for promoter utilization. Using supercoiled or premelted templates, we have discovered that the yeast core mitochondrial RNA polymerase (Rpo41) has the intrinsic ability to initiate from promoters without its specificity factor (Mtf1). Rpo41 requires the mitochondrial promoter sequence (ATATAAGTA) for this activity. On premelted templates addition of Mtf1 actually inhibits the promoter selective activity of Rpo41. Mtf1 increases abortive relative to productive transcription by Rpo41, possibly by stabilizing the promoter complex and reducing escape into elongation. The requirement for Mtf1 on closed but not open templates indicates that Mtf1 facilitates melting but not recognition of promoters.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
44239-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Mitochondrial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Nucleic Acid Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Promoter Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-RNA, Ribosomal, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-RNA, Transfer, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:15342628-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Intrinsic promoter recognition by a "core" RNA polymerase.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Program in Molecular Biology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.