DNA looping in the RNA polymerase I enhancesome is the result of non-cooperative in-phase bending by two UBF molecules
AUTOR(ES)
Stefanovsky, Victor Y.
FONTE
Oxford University Press
RESUMO
The so-called upstream binding factor (UBF) is required for the initial step in formation of an RNA polymerase I initiation complex. This function of UBF correlates with its ability to induce the ribosomal enhancesome, a structure which resembles in its mass and DNA content the nucleosome of chromatin. DNA looping in the enhancesome is probably the result of six in-phase bends induced by the HMG boxes of a UBF dimer. Here we show that insertion/deletion mutations in the basic peptide linker lying between the N-terminal dimerisation domain and the first HMG box of Xenopus UBF prevent the DNA looping characteristic of the enhancesome. Using these mutants we demonstrate that (i) the enhancesome structure does not depend on tethering of the entering and exiting DNA duplexes, (ii) UBF monomers induce hemi-enhancesomes, bending the DNA by 175 ± 24° and (iii) two hemi-enhancesomes are precisely phased by UBF dimerisation. We use this and previous data to refine the existing enhancesome model and show that HMG boxes 1 and 2 of UBF lie head-to-head along the DNA.
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