Events during Initiation of Archaeal Transcription: Open Complex Formation and DNA-Protein Interactions
- 15 May 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 183 (10), 3025-31
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.183.10.3025-3031.2001
Abstract
Transcription in Archaea is initiated by association of a TATA box binding protein (TBP) with a TATA box. This interaction is stabilized by the binding of the transcription factor IIB (TFIIB) orthologue TFB. We show here that the RNA polymerase of the archaeon Methanococcus , in contrast to polymerase II, does not require hydrolysis of the β-γ bond of ATP for initiation of transcription and open complex formation on linearized DNA. Permanganate probing revealed that the archaeal open complex spanned at least the DNA region from −11 to −1 at a tRNA Val promoter. The Methanococcus TBP-TFB promoter complex protected the DNA region from −40 to −14 on the noncoding DNA strand and the DNA segment from −36 to −17 on the coding DNA strand from DNase I digestion. This DNase I footprint was extended only to the downstream end by the addition of the RNA polymerase to position +17 on the noncoding strand and to position +13 on the coding DNA strand.Keywords
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