Dual Role for Transactivator Protein C in Activation of mom Promoter of Bacteriophage Mu *
Journal of Biological Chemistry, ISSN: 0021-9258, Vol: 281, Issue: 13, Page: 8511-8517
2006
- 12Citations
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- Citations12
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- 12
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- Captures6
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Article Description
Transactivator C protein of bacteriophage Mu activates the mom gene of the phage by an unusual mechanism. DNA binding by C to its site results in unwinding of the neighboring sequences, realigning the out-of-phase promoter elements to facilitate RNA polymerase (RNAP) binding. High level stimulation of a C-independent constitutive promoter mutant (where RNAP is already bound) by the transactivator suggested an additional mechanism of transcription activation at a step after RNAP recruitment. In this study, we have investigated the various steps of promoter-polymerase interactions during transcription initiation by using both the promoter mutant and a positive control (pc) mutant of C protein. The transactivator does not influence formation of the open complex or its stability after facilitating the RNAP binding. However, at a subsequent step, the protein exerts an important role, enhancing the promoter clearance by increasing the productive RNAP·promoter complex. The pc mutant of the transactivator C is compromised at this step, supporting the additional downstream role for C in mom transcription activation. We suggest that this unusual multistep activation of Pmom has evolved to ensure irreversibility of the switch during the late lytic cycle of the phage.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021925819565516; http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m512906200; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=33646835240&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16446361; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0021925819565516; http://www.jbc.org/lookup/doi/10.1074/jbc.M512906200; https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1074/jbc.M512906200; https://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m512906200
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