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Rubalcava-Gracia D, García-Villegas R, Larsson NG. No role for nuclear transcription regulators in mammalian mitochondria? Mol Cell 2023; 83:832-842. [PMID: 36182692 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Although the mammalian mtDNA transcription machinery is simple and resembles bacteriophage systems, there are many reports that nuclear transcription regulators, as exemplified by MEF2D, MOF, PGC-1α, and hormone receptors, are imported into mammalian mitochondria and directly interact with the mtDNA transcription machinery. However, the supporting experimental evidence for this concept is open to alternate interpretations, and a main issue is the difficulty in distinguishing indirect regulation of mtDNA transcription, caused by altered nuclear gene expression, from direct intramitochondrial effects. We provide a critical discussion and experimental guidelines to stringently assess roles of intramitochondrial factors implicated in direct regulation of mammalian mtDNA transcription.
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- Diana Rubalcava-Gracia
- Division of Molecular Metabolism, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Molecular Metabolism, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Molecular Metabolism, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Borkotoky S, Murali A. The highly efficient T7 RNA polymerase: A wonder macromolecule in biological realm. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 118:49-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.05.198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 05/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Borkotoky S, Kumar Meena C, Bhalerao GM, Murali A. An in-silico glimpse into the pH dependent structural changes of T7 RNA polymerase: a protein with simplicity. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6290. [PMID: 28740191 PMCID: PMC5524818 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06586-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The capability of performing an array of functions with its single subunit structure makes T7 RNA polymerase (T7RNAP) as one of the simplest yet attractive target for various investigations ranging from structure determinations to several biological tests. In this study, with the help of molecular dynamics (MD) calculations and molecular docking, we investigated the effect of varying pH conditions on conformational flexibility of T7RNAP. We also studied its effect on the interactions with a well established inhibitor (heparin), substrate GTP and T7 promoter of T7RNAP. The simulation studies were validated with the help of three dimensional reconstructions of the polymerase at different pH environments using transmission electron microscopy and single particle analysis. On comparing the simulated structures, it was observed that the structure of T7RNAP changes considerably and interactions with its binding partners also changes as the pH shifts from basic to acidic. Further, it was observed that the C-terminal end plays a vital role in the inefficiency of the polymerase at low pH. Thus, this in-silico study may provide a significant insight into the structural investigations on T7RNAP as well as in designing potent inhibitors against it in varying pH environments.
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- Subhomoi Borkotoky
- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, India
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- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, India
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- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research Kalpakkam Node, Kokilamedu, Tamilnadu, 603104, India
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- Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, India.
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Yang H, Ma Y, Wang Y, Yang H, Shen W, Chen X. Transcription regulation mechanisms of bacteriophages: recent advances and future prospects. Bioengineered 2015; 5:300-4. [PMID: 25482231 DOI: 10.4161/bioe.32110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Phage diversity significantly contributes to ecology and evolution of new bacterial species through horizontal gene transfer. Therefore, it is essential to understand the mechanisms underlying phage-host interactions. After initial infection, the phage utilizes the transcriptional machinery of the host to direct the expression of its own genes. This review presents a view on the transcriptional regulation mechanisms of bacteriophages, and its contribution to phage diversity and classification. Through this review, we aim to broaden the understanding of phage-host interactions while providing a reference source for researchers studying the regulation of phage transcription.
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- Haiquan Yang
- a Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology; Ministry of Education; School of Biotechnology; Jiangnan University; Wuxi, China
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Boulain JC, Dassa J, Mesta L, Savatier A, Costa N, Muller BH, L'hostis G, Stura EA, Troesch A, Ducancel F. Mutants with higher stability and specific activity from a single thermosensitive variant of T7 RNA polymerase. Protein Eng Des Sel 2013; 26:725-34. [PMID: 24006372 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzt040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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A single strategy to select RNA polymerase from bacteriophage T7 (T7 RNAP) mutants in Escherichia coli with enhanced thermostability or enzymatic activity is described. T7 RNAP has the ability to specifically transcribe genes under control of T7 phage promoter. By using random mutagenesis of the T7 RNAP gene in combination with an appropriate screening at 25 and 42°C, we have generated and selected E.coli clones with temperature-sensitive phenotype in the presence of chloramphenicol. The resistance to chloramphenicol used to select these clones results from expression control of the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase gene by the T7 promoter. In a second phase, and using the thermosensitive T7 RNAP variants as template, a new round of random mutagenesis was performed. Combined to an appropriate screening strategy, 11 mutations (second-site T7 RNAP revertants) that restore the initial resistance to chloramphenicol at 42°C were identified. Nine of these mutations increase the thermal resistance of the wild-type T7 RNA. They include the five mutations previously described using different approaches and four novel mutations. One improves T7 RNA catalytic activity and one has no positive effect on the natural enzyme but increases the activity of some combined mutants. Additive effects of mutations amount to an increase of as much as 10°C in T1/2 compared with the wild-type enzyme and up to a 2-fold activity enhancement.
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- Jean-Claude Boulain
- CEA, iBiTec-S, Service de Pharmacologie et d'Immunoanalyse, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Anticorps pour la Santé, Equipe mixte CEA/BioMérieux, Gif-sur-Yvette F-91191, France
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Yu H, Jo K, Kounovsky KL, de Pablo JJ, Schwartz DC. Molecular propulsion: chemical sensing and chemotaxis of DNA driven by RNA polymerase. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:5722-3. [PMID: 19351109 DOI: 10.1021/ja900372m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Living cells sense extracellular signals and direct their movements in response to stimuli in environment. Such autonomous movement allows these machines to sample chemical change over a distance, leading to chemotaxis. Synthetic catalytic rods have been reported to chemotax toward hydrogen peroxide fuel. Nevertheless individualized autonomous control of movement of a population of biomolecules under physiological conditions has not been demonstrated. Here we show the first experimental evidence that a molecular complex consisting of a DNA template and associating RNA polymerases (RNAPs) displays chemokinetic motion driven by transcription substrates nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs). Furthermore this molecular complex exhibits a biased migration into a concentration gradient of NTPs, resembling chemotaxis. We describe this behavior as "Molecular Propulsion", in which RNAP transcriptional actions deform DNA template conformation engendering measurable enhancement of motility. Our results provide new opportunities for designing and directing nanomachines by imposing external triggers within an experimental system.
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- Hua Yu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 425 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Nayak D, Guo Q, Sousa R. A promoter recognition mechanism common to yeast mitochondrial and phage t7 RNA polymerases. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:13641-13647. [PMID: 19307179 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m900718200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Yeast mitochondrial (YMt) and phage T7 RNA polymerases (RNAPs) are two divergent representatives of a large family of single subunit RNAPs that are also found in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of higher eukaryotes, mammalian nuclei, and many other bacteriophage. YMt and phage T7 promoters differ greatly in sequence and length, and the YMt RNAP uses an accessory factor for initiation, whereas T7 RNAP does not. We obtain evidence here that, despite these apparent differences, both the YMt and T7 RNAPs utilize a similar promoter recognition loop to bind their respective promoters. Mutations in this element in YMt RNAP specifically disrupt mitochondrial promoter utilization, and experiments with site-specifically tethered chemical nucleases indicate that this element binds the mitochondrial promoter almost identically to how the promoter recognition loop from the phage RNAP binds its promoter. Sequence comparisons reveal that the other members of the single subunit RNAP family display loops of variable sequence and size at a position corresponding to the YMt and T7 RNAP promoter recognition loops. We speculate that these elements may be involved in promoter recognition in most or all of these enzymes and that this element's structure allows it to accommodate significant sequence and length variation to provide a mechanism for rapid evolution of new promoter specificities in this RNAP family.
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- Dhananjaya Nayak
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229.
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Durniak KJ, Bailey S, Steitz TA. The structure of a transcribing T7 RNA polymerase in transition from initiation to elongation. Science 2008; 322:553-7. [PMID: 18948533 DOI: 10.1126/science.1163433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Structural studies of the T7 bacteriophage DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP) have shown that the conformation of the amino-terminal domain changes substantially between the initiation and elongation phases of transcription, but how this transition is achieved remains unclear. We report crystal structures of T7 RNAP bound to promoter DNA containing either a 7- or an 8-nucleotide (nt) RNA transcript that illuminate intermediate states along the transition pathway. The amino-terminal domain comprises the C-helix subdomain and the promoter binding domain (PBD), which consists of two segments separated by subdomain H. The structures of the intermediate complex reveal that the PBD and the bound promoter rotate by approximately 45 degrees upon synthesis of an 8-nt RNA transcript. This allows the promoter contacts to be maintained while the active site is expanded to accommodate a growing heteroduplex. The C-helix subdomain moves modestly toward its elongation conformation, whereas subdomain H remains in its initiation- rather than its elongation-phase location, more than 70 angstroms away.
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- Kimberly J Durniak
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA
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Nayak D, Siller S, Guo Q, Sousa R. Mechanism of T7 RNAP pausing and termination at the T7 concatemer junction: a local change in transcription bubble structure drives a large change in transcription complex architecture. J Mol Biol 2007; 376:541-53. [PMID: 18166198 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2007] [Revised: 11/27/2007] [Accepted: 11/27/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The T7RNA polymerase (RNAP) elongation complex (EC) pauses and is destabilized at a unique 8 nucleotide (nt) sequence found at the junction of the head-to-tail concatemers of T7 genomic DNA generated during T7 DNA replication. The paused EC may recruit the T7 DNA processing machinery, which cleaves the concatemerized DNA within this 8 nt concatemer junction (CJ). Pausing of the EC at the CJ involves structural changes in both the RNAP and transcription bubble. However, these structural changes have not been fully defined, nor is it understood how the CJ sequence itself causes the EC to change its structure, to pause, and to become less stable. Here we use solution and RNAP-tethered chemical nucleases to probe the CJ transcript and changes in the EC structure as the polymerase pauses and terminates at the CJ. Together with extensive mutational scanning of regions of the polymerase that are likely to be involved in recognition of the CJ, we are able to develop a description of the events that occur as the EC transcribes through the CJ and subsequently pauses. In this process, a local change in the structure of the transcription bubble drives a large change in the architecture of the EC. This altered EC structure may then serve as the signal that recruits the processing machinery to the CJ.
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- Dhananjaya Nayak
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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