Asynchronous basepair openings in transcription initiation: CRP enhances the rate-limiting step
AUTOR(ES)
Roy, Siddhartha
FONTE
Nature Publishing Group
RESUMO
The mechanism of isomerization (basepair openings) during transcription initiation by RNA polymerase at the galP1 promoter of Escherichia coli was investigated by 2-aminopurine (2,AP) fluorescence. The fluorescence of 2,AP is quenched in DNA duplex and enhanced when the basepair is distorted or deformed. The increase of 2,AP fluorescence was used to monitor basepair distortion at several individual positions in the promoter. We observed that basepair distortions during isomerization are a multi-step process. Three distinct hitherto unresolved steps in kinetic terms were observed, where significant fluorescence change occurs: a fast step with a half-life of around 1 s, which is followed by two slower steps occurring with a half-life in the range of minutes at 25°C. Contrary to commonly held expectations, basepairs at different positions opened by 2,AP assays without any obvious pattern, suggesting that basepair opening is an asynchronous multi-step process. cAMP·CRP, which activates transcription at galP1, enhanced the rate-limiting step.
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