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Ji D, Manavski N, Meurer J, Zhang L, Chi W. Regulated chloroplast transcription termination. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2018; 1860:69-77. [PMID: 30414934 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2018] [Revised: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Transcription termination by the RNA polymerase (RNAP) is a fundamental step of gene expression that involves the release of the nascent transcript and dissociation of the RNAP from the DNA template. However, the functional importance of termination extends beyond the mere definition of the gene borders. Chloroplasts originate from cyanobacteria and possess their own gene expression system. Plastids have a unique hybrid transcription system consisting of two different types of RNAPs of dissimilar phylogenetic origin together with several additional nuclear encoded components. Although the basic components involved in chloroplast transcription have been identified, little attention has been paid to the chloroplast transcription termination. Recent identification and functional characterization of novel factors in regulating transcription termination in Arabidopsis chloroplasts via genetic and biochemical approaches have provided insights into the mechanisms and significance of transcription termination in chloroplast gene expression. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge of the transcription termination in chloroplasts.
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- Daili Ji
- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, 12 rue du General Zimmer, 67084 Strasbourg, France
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- Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Photosynthesis Research Center, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
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At the end of the multistep transcription process, the elongating RNA polymerase (RNAP) is dislodged from the DNA template either at specific DNA sequences, called the terminators, or by a nascent RNA-dependent helicase, Rho. In Escherichia coli, about half of the transcription events are terminated by the Rho protein. Rho utilizes its RNA-dependent ATPase activities to translocate along the mRNA and eventually dislodges the RNAP via an unknown mechanism. The transcription elongation factor NusG facilitates this termination process by directly interacting with Rho. In this review, we discuss current models describing the mechanism of action of this hexameric transcription terminator, its regulation by different cis and trans factors, and the effects of the termination process on physiological processes in bacterial cells, particularly E. coli and Salmonella enterica Typhimurium.
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- Pallabi Mitra
- Laboratory of Transcription, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001, India; , , ,
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- Laboratory of Transcription, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001, India; , , , .,Department of Graduate Studies, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka-576104, India
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- Laboratory of Transcription, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001, India; , , , .,Department of Graduate Studies, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka-576104, India
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- Laboratory of Transcription, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Nampally, Hyderabad-500001, India; , , ,
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Xu Y, Johnson J, Kohn H, Widger WR. ATP binding to Rho transcription termination factor. Mutant F355W ATP-induced fluorescence quenching reveals dynamic ATP binding. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:13719-27. [PMID: 12551938 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212979200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rho transcription termination factor mutant, F355W, showed tryptophan fluorescence intensity approximately twice that of wild-type Rho at equivalent protein concentrations and underwent a decrease in relative fluorescence intensity at 350 nm when 100 microm ATP was added in the presence or absence of RNA. Titration of this fluorescence quenching with varying concentrations of ATP (0-600 microm), where Rho is shown to exist as a hexamer (400 nm Rho), revealed tight and loose ATP-binding sites. Bicyclomycin, a specific inhibitor of Rho, increased the tight ATP binding and was used to calibrate ATP-induced fluorescence quenching by using [gamma-(32)P]ATP filter binding. For the Rho mutant F355W, three tight (K(d)(1) = 3 +/- 0.3 microm) and three loose (K(d)(2) = 58 +/- 3 microm) ATP-binding sites per hexamer were seen on Scatchard analysis in the absence of bicyclomycin and poly(C). In the presence of bicyclomycin, the K(d)(1) changed from 3.0 to 1.4 microm, but K(d)(2) underwent a lesser change. The non-hydrolyzable ATP analogue, gamma-S-ATP, gave a similar profile with three tight (K(d)(1) = 0.2 microm) and three loose (K(d)(2) = 70 microm) ATP-binding sites per hexamer. Adding poly(C) to F355W did not alter the K(d)(1) or K(d)(2) for ATP or for gamma-S-ATP. ADP-induced quenching produced 5.5 loose (K(d) = 92 microm) binding sites in the absence of poly(C), and the binding became weaker (K(d) = 175 microm) in the presence of poly(C). The data suggest that in the presence of ADP Rho has six equivalent nucleotide-binding sites. When ATP was added these sites converted to three tight and three loose binding loci. We propose an alternating ATP site mechanism where ATP binding creates heterogeneity in the ATP binding in adjacent subunits, and we suggest that ATP binding to a neighboring loose site stimulates hydrolysis at a neighboring tight binding site such that all six subunits can be potential "active" sites for ATP hydrolysis. The dynamic nature of the ATP binding to Rho is discussed in the terms of the mechanism of RNA tracking driven by ATP hydrolysis.
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- Yi Xu
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Texas 77204-5001, USA
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Richardson JP. Rho-dependent termination and ATPases in transcript termination. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1577:251-260. [PMID: 12213656 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(02)00456-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Transcription factor Rho is a ring-shaped, homohexameric protein that causes transcript termination through actions on nascent RNAs that are coupled to ATP hydrolysis. The Rho polypeptide has a distinct RNA-binding domain (RNA-BD) of known structure as well as an ATP-binding domain (ATP-BD) for which a structure has been proposed based on homology modeling. A model is proposed in which Rho first makes an interaction with a nascent RNA on a C-rich, primarily single-stranded rut region of the transcript as that region emerges from the exit site of RNA polymerase. A subsequent step involves a temporary release of one subunit of the hexamer to allow the 3' segment of the nascent transcript to enter the central channel of the Rho ring. Actions of the Rho structure in the channel on the 3' segment that are coupled to ATP hydrolysis pull the RNA from its contacts with the template and RNA polymerase, thus causing termination of its synthesis.
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- John P Richardson
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 800 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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Xu Y, Kohn H, Widger WR. Mutations in the rho transcription termination factor that affect RNA tracking. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:30023-30. [PMID: 12034708 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111009200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Model studies have identified 16 conserved positively charged amino acids that form a positive strip pointing toward the center hole of Rho. Fourteen residues were individually changed to either an alanine or a glycine and one to a glutamate. Residues Arg(269), Arg(272), Lys(283), Arg(296), Lys(298), and Arg(299) form a subdomain (locus) located N-terminal to (above) the ATP hydrolysis domain (P-loop) and mutations in these residues led to either inactive Rho or to proteins displaying decreased k(cat) for poly(C)-dependent ATP hydrolysis, increased K(m) for ribo(C)(10) activation, and decreased transcription termination efficiencies (57-77%) compared with wild-type Rho. Residues Arg(347), Lys(348), Lys(352), and Arg(353) form a subdomain (locus) C-terminal to (below) the ATP hydrolysis domain, and mutations in these residues also show a decreased k(cat) for poly(C)-dependent ATP hydrolysis, an increased K(m) for ribo(C)(10) activation, and a 50-70% decrease in transcription termination, compared with wild-type Rho. Residues Arg(212) and Lys(336) surround the ATP hydrolysis domain, and mutations in these residues also altered the kinetic properties of Rho. We conclude that the secondary RNA-tracking site consists of amino acids whose putative orientation faces the central hole in Rho and in part reside in two clusters of positively charged residues located above and below the ATP hydrolysis domain.
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- Yi Xu
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5001, USA
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Wei RR, Richardson JP. Identification of an RNA-binding Site in the ATP binding domain of Escherichia coli Rho by H2O2/Fe-EDTA cleavage protection studies. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:28380-7. [PMID: 11369775 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102444200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Transcription factor Rho is a ring-shaped, homohexameric protein that causes transcript termination through actions on nascent RNAs that are coupled to ATP hydrolysis. The Rho polypeptide has a distinct RNA binding domain of known structure as well as an ATP binding domain for which a structure has been proposed based on homology modeling. Treatment of Rho with H2O2 in the presence of Fe-EDTA caused single-cut cleavage at a number of points that coincide with solvent-exposed loops in both the known and predicted structures, thereby providing support for the validity of the tertiary and quaternary structural models of Rho. The binding of ATP caused one distinct change in the cleavage pattern, a strong protection at a cleavage point in the P-loop of the ATP binding domain. Binding of RNA and single-stranded DNA (poly(dC)) caused strong protection at several accessible parts of the oligosaccharide/oligonucleotide binding (OB) fold in the RNA binding domain. RNA molecules but not DNA molecules also caused a strong, ATP-dependent protection at a cleavage site in the predicted Q-loop of the ATP binding domain. These results suggest that Rho has two distinct binding sites for RNA. Besides the site composed of multiples of the RNA binding domain, to which single-stranded DNA as well as RNA can bind, it has a separate, RNA-specific site on the Q-loop in the ATP binding domain. In the proposed quaternary structure of Rho, the Q-loops from the six subunits form the upper entrance to the hole in the ring-shaped hexamer through which the nascent transcript is translocated by actions coupled to ATP hydrolyses.
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- R R Wei
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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Washburn RS, Marra A, Bryant AP, Rosenberg M, Gentry DR. rho is not essential for viability or virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001; 45:1099-103. [PMID: 11257021 PMCID: PMC90430 DOI: 10.1128/aac.45.4.1099-1103.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have identified the gene for transcription termination factor Rho in Staphylococcus aureus. Deletion of rho in S. aureus reveals that it is not essential for viability or virulence. We also searched the available bacterial genomic sequences for homologs of Rho and found that it is broadly distributed and highly conserved. Exceptions include Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Ureaplasma urealyticum, and Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803, all of which appear not to possess a Rho homolog. Complementation studies indicate that S. aureus Rho possesses the same activity as Escherichia coli Rho and that the Rho inhibitor bicyclomycin is active against S. aureus Rho. Our results explain the lack of activity of bicyclomycin against many gram-positive bacteria and raise the possibility that the essentiality of rho may be the exception rather than the rule.
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- R S Washburn
- GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, USA
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Magyar A, Zhang X, Abdi F, Kohn H, Widger WR. Identifying the bicyclomycin binding domain through biochemical analysis of antibiotic-resistant rho proteins. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:7316-24. [PMID: 10066795 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.11.7316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mutations M219K, S266A, and G337S in transcription termination factor Rho have been shown to confer resistance to the antibiotic bicyclomycin (BCM). All three His-tagged mutant Rho proteins exhibited similar Km values for ATP; however, the Vmax values at infinite ATP concentrations were one-fourth to one-third that for the His-tagged wild-type enzyme. BCM inhibition kinetics of poly(C)-dependent ATPase activity for the mutant proteins were non-competitive with respect to ATP (altering catalytic function but not ATP binding) and showed increased Ki values compared with His-tagged wild-type Rho. M219K and G337S exhibited increased ratios of poly(U)/poly(C)-stimulated ATPase activity and lower apparent Km values for ribo(C)10 in the poly(dC).ribo(C)10-dependent ATPase assay compared with His-tagged wild-type Rho. The S266A mutation did not show an increased poly(U)/poly(C) ATPase activity ratio and maintained approximately the same Km for ribo(C)10 in the poly(dC). ribo(C)10-dependent ATPase assay. The kinetic studies indicated that M219K and G337S altered the secondary RNA binding domain in Rho whereas the S266A mutation did not. Transcription termination assays for each mutant showed different patterns of Rho-terminated transcripts. Tyrosine substitution of Ser-266 led to BCM sensitivity intimating that an OH (hydroxyl) moiety at this position is needed for BCM (binding) inhibition. Our results suggest BCM binds to Rho at a site distinct from both the ATP and the primary RNA binding domains but close to the secondary RNA-binding (tracking) site and the ATP hydrolysis pocket.
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- A Magyar
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, USA
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Riba I, Gaskell SJ, Cho H, Widger WR, Kohn H. Evidence for the location of bicyclomycin binding to the Escherichia coli transcription termination factor Rho. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:34033-41. [PMID: 9852059 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.51.34033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The commercial antibiotic bicyclomycin (Bcm) has been shown to target the essential transcription termination factor Rho in Escherichia coli. Little is known about the Bcm binding domain in Rho. A recent structure-activity relationship study led us to evaluate the reductive amination probe, 5a-(3-formylanilino)dihydrobicyclomycin (FD-Bcm). Biochemical studies showed that FD-Bcm possessed inhibitory activities comparable to Bcm in Rho-dependent ATPase and transcription termination assays. Incubation of Rho with FD-Bcm, ATP, and poly(C) followed by NaBH4 reduction and dialysis led to an appreciable loss of ATPase activity. Inclusion of Bcm with FD-Bcm in the reductive amination reaction protected Rho, indicating that Bcm and FD-Bcm competed for the same binding site in Rho. Incubation of Rho with FD-Bcm and poly(C) followed by NaBH4 reduction provided a sample with residual ATPase activity (12%). Mass spectrometric analysis indicated the presence of two proteins in an approximate 1.2:1 ratio, whose masses corresponded to wild-type Rho (47,010 Da) and lysine-modified Rho (47,417 Da), respectively. Trypsin digestion of the Rho sample followed by high performance liquid chromatography separation and tandem mass spectrometry analysis identified the site of modification as Lys181 within the combined tryptic fragment, Gly-Leu-Ile-Val-Ala-Pro-Pro-Lys-Ala-Gly-Lys (residues 174-184). Similar analysis of a lesser modified sample (following incubation with inclusion of ATP) showed that addition had again occurred at Lys181. These findings provide the first structural information concerning the site of Bcm binding in Rho.
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- I Riba
- Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, UMIST, P. O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom
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Zhou Y, Duncan TM, Cross RL. Subunit rotation in Escherichia coli FoF1-ATP synthase during oxidative phosphorylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:10583-7. [PMID: 9380678 PMCID: PMC23410 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.20.10583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We report evidence for proton-driven subunit rotation in membrane-bound FoF1-ATP synthase during oxidative phosphorylation. A betaD380C/gammaC87 crosslinked hybrid F1 having epitope-tagged betaD380C subunits (betaflag) exclusively in the two noncrosslinked positions was bound to Fo in F1-depleted membranes. After reduction of the beta-gamma crosslink, a brief exposure to conditions for ATP synthesis followed by reoxidation resulted in a significant amount of betaflag appearing in the beta-gamma crosslinked product. Such a reorientation of gammaC87 relative to the three beta subunits can only occur through subunit rotation. Rotation was inhibited when proton transport through Fo was blocked or when ADP and Pi were omitted. These results establish FoF1 as the second example in nature where proton transport is coupled to subunit rotation.
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- Y Zhou
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, State University of New York Health Science Center, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
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Horiguchi T, Miwa Y, Shigesada K. The quaternary geometry of transcription termination factor rho: assignment by chemical cross-linking. J Mol Biol 1997; 269:514-28. [PMID: 9217257 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Transcription termination factor rho from Escherichia coli is a ring-shaped homohexamer of 419 amino acid subunits and catalyzes an ATP-dependent release of nascent RNA transcripts. Previous chemical cross-linking studies suggested that the rho hexamer might have D3 symmetry with three isologous dimers as protomers. However, our recent mutational analysis of rho alongside its putative structural homology to F1-ATPase rather argued for C6 symmetry. To resolve this discrepancy, we have re-investigated the pattern of cross-linking of rho using various cross-linkers with different functional groups and spacer lengths. Upon reaction with dimethyl suberimidate followed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, rho protein generated a series of cross-linked oligomers up to hexamers, of which dimers migrated as distinct doublet bands of approximately equal intensities. However, the lower band became much stronger than the upper one with dimethyl adipimidate and difluorodinitrobenzene, and vice versa with disuccinimidyl glutarate, disuccinimidyl suberate and disulfosuccinimidyl tartarate. Furthermore, the trimeric products also produced doublet bands, whose relative intensities were again variable with cross-linkers, but in an inverse correlation with those of the dimer bands. These results combined with theoretical considerations support a C6 symmetry model in which cross-linking is assumed to occur stochastically at one of two alternative sites within each subunit interface with variable relative frequencies depending on cross-linkers. The D3 symmetry is excluded, for the putative trimeric subspecies should always retain mutually equal intensities in that case. Detailed inspections of the cross-linking kinetics further revealed a moderate characteristic of C3 symmetry for the rho hexamer such that the collective as well as relative rates of cross-linking at the two available sites could fluctuate between alternating interfaces. The final model designated as C3/6 is also compatible with other functional and structural properties known for rho.
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- T Horiguchi
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan
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Magyar A, Zhang X, Kohn H, Widger WR. The antibiotic bicyclomycin affects the secondary RNA binding site of Escherichia coli transcription termination factor Rho. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:25369-74. [PMID: 8810302 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.41.25369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The interaction of Rho and the antibiotic bicyclomycin was probed using in vitro transcription termination reactions, poly(C) binding assays, limited tryptic digestions, and the bicyclomycin inhibition kinetics of ATPase activity in the presence of poly(dC) and ribo(C)10. The approximate I50 value for the bicyclomycin inhibition of transcription termination at Rho-dependent sites within a modified trp operon template was 5 microM. At antibiotic concentrations near the I50 value, bicyclomycin inhibition of Rho-dependent transcripts was accompanied by the appearance of a new set of transcripts whose size was midway between the Rho-dependent transcripts and the readthrough transcripts. Bicyclomycin did not inhibit poly(C) binding to Rho. In the presence of poly(dC), bicyclomycin showed a reversible mixed inhibition of the ribo(C)10-stimulated ATPase activity. The extrapolated Ki for bicyclomycin was 2.8 microM without ribo(C)10 and increased to 26 microM in the presence of ribo(C)10. Correspondingly, the Km(app) for ribo(C)10 without bicyclomycin was 0.8 microM and with bicyclomycin was 5 microM at infinite inhibitor concentration. The data suggested that the antibiotic binds to Rho, influencing the secondary RNA binding (tracking) site on Rho and slows the tracking of Rho toward the bound RNA polymerase.
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- A Magyar
- Department of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-5934, USA
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Gomelsky M, Kaplan S. The Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 rho gene: expression and genetic analysis of structure and function. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:1946-54. [PMID: 8606169 PMCID: PMC177890 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.7.1946-1954.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The gene which encodes transcription termination factor Rho from Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1, the gram-negative facultative photosynthetic bacterium, has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced protein shows a high level of sequence similarity to other bacterial Rho factors, especially those from proteobacteria. However, several amino acid substitutions in the conserved ATP-binding site have been identified. When expressed in Escherichia coli, the R. sphaeroides rho gene relieves Rho-dependent polarity of the trp operon, indicating interference with the transcription termination machinery of E. coli. A truncated version of R. sphaeroides Rho (Rho') is toxic to a bacterium related to R. sphaeroides, Paracoccus denitrificans, and is lethal to R. sphaeroides. We suggest that toxicity is due to the ability of Rho' to form inactive heteromers with the chromosomally encoded intact Rho. We localized a minimal amino acid sequence within Rho which appears to be critical for its toxic effect and which we believe may be involved in protein-protein interactions. This region was previously reported to be highly conserved and unique among various Rho proteins. The lethality of rho' in R. sphaeroides together with our inability to obtain a null mutation in rho suggests that Rho-dependent transcription termination is essential in R. sphaeroides. This is analogous to what is observed for gram-negative E. coli and contrasts with what is observed for gram-positive Bacillus subtilis. The genetic region surrounding the R. sphaeroides rho gene has been determined and found to be different compared with those of other bacterial species. rho is preceded by orf1, which encodes a putative integral membrane protein possibly involved in cytochrome formation or functioning. The gene downstream of rho is homologous to thdF, whose product is involved in thiophene and furan oxidation.
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- M Gomelsky
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- J P Richardson
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
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Pereira S, Platt T. A mutation in the ATP binding domain of rho alters its RNA binding properties and uncouples ATP hydrolysis from helicase activity. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:30401-7. [PMID: 8530466 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.51.30401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The Escherichia coli mutant rho201 was originally isolated in a genetic screen for defects in rho-dependent termination. Cloning and sequencing of this gene reveals a single phenylalanine to cysteine mutation at residue 232 in the ATP binding domain of the protein. This mutation significantly alters its RNA binding properties so that it binds trp t', RNA 100-fold weaker than the wild type protein, with a Kd of approximately 1.3 nM. Rho201 binds nonspecific RNA only 3-4-fold less tightly than it binds trp t', while the wild type differential for these same RNAs is 10-20-fold. Curiously, rho201 displays increased secondary site RNA activation, with a Km for ribo(C)10 of 0.6 microM, compared to the wild type value of 3-4 microM. Although rho201 and the wild type protein hydrolyze ATP similarly with poly(C), or trp t' RNA, as cofactors, rho201 has a higher ATPase activity when activated by nonspecific RNA. Physically, rho201 displays an abnormal conformation detectable by mild trypsin digestion. Despite effective ATP hydrolysis, the rho201 mutant is a poor RNA:DNA helicase and terminates inefficiently on trp t'. The single F232C mutation thus appears to uncouple the protein's ATPase activity from its helicase function, so rho can no longer harness available energy for use in subsequent reactions.
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- S Pereira
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
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Opperman T, Richardson JP. Phylogenetic analysis of sequences from diverse bacteria with homology to the Escherichia coli rho gene. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:5033-43. [PMID: 8051015 PMCID: PMC196342 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.16.5033-5043.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Genes from Pseudomonas fluorescens, Chromatium vinosum, Micrococcus luteus, Deinococcus radiodurans, and Thermotoga maritima with homology to the Escherichia coli rho gene were cloned and sequenced, and their sequences were compared with other available sequences. The species for all of the compared sequences are members of five bacterial phyla, including Thermotogales, the most deeply diverged phylum. This suggests that a rho-like gene is ubiquitous in the Bacteria and was present in their common ancestor. The comparative analysis revealed that the Rho homologs are highly conserved, exhibiting a minimum identity of 50% of their amino acid residues in pairwise comparisons. The ATP-binding domain had a particularly high degree of conservation, consisting of some blocks with sequences of residues that are very similar to segments of the alpha and beta subunits of F1-ATPase and of other blocks with sequences that are unique to Rho. The RNA-binding domain is more diverged than the ATP-binding domain. However, one of its most highly conserved segments includes a RNP1-like sequence, which is known to be involved in RNA binding. Overall, the degree of similarity is lowest in the first 50 residues (the first half of the RNA-binding domain), in the putative connector region between the RNA-binding and the ATP-binding domains, and in the last 50 residues of the polypeptide. Since functionally defective mutants for E. coli Rho exist in all three of these segments, they represent important parts of Rho that have undergone adaptive evolution.
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- T Opperman
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405
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8-Azido-ATP inactivation of Escherichia coli transcription termination factor Rho. Modification of one subunit inactivates the hexamer. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37646-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Hountondji C, Dessen P, Blanquet S. The SKS of the KMSKS signature of class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases corresponds to the GKT/S sequence characteristic of the ATP-binding site of many proteins. Biochimie 1993; 75:1137-42. [PMID: 8199249 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(93)90013-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- C Hountondji
- Laboratoire de Biochimie (URA 240 du CNRS), Palaiseau, France
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Geiselmann J, von Hippel PH. Functional interactions of ligand cofactors with Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho. I. Binding of ATP. Protein Sci 1992; 1:850-60. [PMID: 1304371 PMCID: PMC2142155 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560010703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho is an RNA-dependent ATPase, and ATPase activity is required for all its functions. We have characterized the binding of ATP to the physiologically relevant hexameric association state of rho in the absence of RNA and have shown that there are six ATP binding sites per rho hexamer. This stoichiometry has been verified by a number of different techniques, including ultracentrifugation, ultrafiltration, and fluorescence titration studies. We have also shown that ATP can bind to isolated monomers of rho when the hexamer is dissociated with the mild denaturant myristyltrimethylammonium bromide, demonstrating that each promoter of rho carries an ATP binding site. The six binding sites that we observe in the rho hexamer are not equivalent; the hexamer contains three strong (Ka approximately 3 x 10(6) M-1) and three weak (Ka approximately 10(5) M-1) binding sites for ATP. The binding constant of the weak binding site is just the reciprocal of the enzymatic Km for ATP as a substrate; thus these weak sites, as well as the strong sites, can, in principle, take part in the catalytic cycle. The asymmetry induced (or manifested) by ATP binding reduces the symmetry of the rho hexamer from a D3 to a pseudo-D3 state. This "breakage" of symmetry has implications for the molecular mechanism of rho, because an asymmetric structure can lead to directional helicase activity by invoking directionally distinct RNA binding and release reactions (see Geiselmann, J., Yager, T.D., & von Hippel, P.H., 1992c, Protein Sci. 1, 861-873).
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- J Geiselmann
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403
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Altenschmidt U, Fuchs G. Novel aerobic 2-aminobenzoate metabolism. Purification and characterization of 2-aminobenzoate-CoA ligase, localisation of the gene on a 8-kbp plasmid, and cloning and sequencing of the gene from a denitrifying Pseudomonas sp. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 205:721-7. [PMID: 1315272 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb16835.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A new pathway for the aerobic metabolism of 2-aminobenzoate which proceeds via 2-aminobenzoyl-CoA has recently been revealed in a Pseudomonas strain KB 740-. The enzyme catalyzing the first step, the formation of the coenzyme A (CoA) thioester of 2-aminobenzoate, is 2-aminobenzoate-CoA ligase. It was purified from cells aerobically grown with 2-aminobenzoate as sole carbon, energy, and nitrogen source and characterized. It is rather specific for 2-aminobenzoate, but activates also benzoate and fluorobenzoates. ATP was cleaved into AMP and pyrophosphate. The ligase is a monomer of M(r) 65,000, as determined by gel filtration and SDS/PAGE. The N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined and the gene locus of the enzyme was identified by Southern blot hybridization on a small 8-kbp plasmid pKB 740. The 1.8-kb nucleotide sequence of the 2-aminobenzoate-CoA ligase gene and the derived amino acid sequence of the native enzyme (597 residues) are reported.
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- U Altenschmidt
- Abteilung Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Universität Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany
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Brennan C, Platt T. Mutations in an RNP1 consensus sequence of Rho protein reduce RNA binding affinity but facilitate helicase turnover. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)47373-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Myles GM, Hearst JE, Sancar A. Site-specific mutagenesis of conserved residues within Walker A and B sequences of Escherichia coli UvrA protein. Biochemistry 1991; 30:3824-34. [PMID: 1826850 DOI: 10.1021/bi00230a004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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UvrA is the ATPase subunit of the DNA repair enzyme (A)BC excinuclease. The amino acid sequence of this protein has revealed, in addition to two zinc fingers, three pairs of nucleotide binding motifs each consisting of a Walker A and B sequence. We have conducted site-specific mutagenesis, ATPase kinetic analyses, and nucleotide binding equilibrium measurements to correlate these sequence motifs with activity. Replacement of the invariant Lys by Ala in the putative A sequences indicated that K37 and K646 but not K353 are involved in ATP hydrolysis. In contrast, substitution of the invariant Asp by Asn in the B sequences at positions D238, D513, or D857 had little effect on the in vivo activity of the protein. Nucleotide binding studies revealed a stoichiometry of 0.5 ADP/UvrA monomer while kinetic measurements on wild-type and mutant proteins showed that the active form of UvrA is a dimer with 2 catalytic sites which interact in a positive cooperative manner in the presence of ADP; mutagenesis of K37 but not of K646 attenuated this cooperativity. Loss of ATPase activity was about 75% in the K37A, 86% in the K646A mutant, and 95% in the K37A-K646A double mutant. These amino acid substitutions had only a marginal effect on the specific binding of UvrA to damaged DNA but drastically reduced its ability to deliver UvrB to the damage site. We find that the deficient UvrB loading activity of these mutant UvrA proteins results from their inability to associate with UvrB in the form of (UvrA)2(UvrB)1 complexes. We conclude that UvrA forms a dimer with two ATPase domains involving K37 and K646 and that the work performed by ATP hydrolysis is the delivery of UvrB to the damage site on DNA.
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- G M Myles
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7260
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The adenine nucleotide-binding site on yeast 3-phosphoglycerate kinase. Affinity labeling of Lys-131 by pyridoxal 5‘-diphospho-5‘-adenosine. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)89629-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Alifano P, Rivellini F, Limauro D, Bruni CB, Carlomagno MS. A consensus motif common to all Rho-dependent prokaryotic transcription terminators. Cell 1991; 64:553-63. [PMID: 1703923 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(91)90239-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have characterized at the molecular level several polar mutations in four different cistrons of the his operon of S. typhimurium. An analysis of the his-specific transcripts produced in vivo in the mutant strains, together with in vitro transcription assays, led to the identification of several cryptic Rho-dependent transcription termination elements within the his operon that are activated by the uncoupling of transcription and translation. Common features of these elements were sought and found with a computer program. We have identified a consensus motif, consisting of a cytosine-rich and guanosine-poor region, that is located upstream of the heterogeneous 3' endpoints of the prematurely terminated in vivo transcripts and that is present in all the Rho-dependent transcription terminators described thus far.
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- P Alifano
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Università di Napoli, Italy
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Matson SW. DNA helicases of Escherichia coli. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1991; 40:289-326. [PMID: 1851571 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60845-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A great deal has been learned in the last 15 years with regard to how helicase enzymes participate in DNA metabolism and how they interact with their DNA substrates. However, many questions remain unanswered. Of critical importance is an understanding of how NTP hydrolysis and hydrogen-bond disruption are coupled. Several models exist and are being tested; none has been proven. In addition, an understanding of how a helicase disrupts the hydrogen bonds holding duplex DNA together is lacking. Recently, helicase enzymes that unwind duplex RNA and DNA.RNA hybrids have been described. In some cases, these are old enzymes with new activities. In other cases, these are new enzymes only recently discovered. The significance of these reactions in the cell remains to be clarified. However, with the availability of significant amounts of these enzymes in a highly purified state, and mutant alleles in most of the genes encoding them, the answers to these questions should be forthcoming. The variety of helicases found in E. coli, and the myriad processes these enzymes are involved in, were perhaps unexpected. It seems likely that an equally large number of helicases will be discovered in eukaryotic cells. In fact, several helicases have been identified and purified from eukaryotic sources ranging from viruses to mouse cells (4-13, 227-234). Many of these helicases have been suggested to have roles in DNA replication, although this remains to be shown conclusively. Helicases with roles in DNA repair, recombination, and other aspects of DNA metabolism are likely to be forthcoming as we learn more about these processes in eukaryotic cells.
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- S W Matson
- Department of Biology and Curriculum in Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Tamura JK, Gellert M. Characterization of the ATP binding site on Escherichia coli DNA gyrase. Affinity labeling of Lys-103 and Lys-110 of the B subunit by pyridoxal 5‘-diphospho-5‘-adenosine. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)45366-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Dombroski AJ, Platt T. Mutations in the ATP-binding domain of Escherichia coli rho factor affect transcription termination in vivo. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:2477-84. [PMID: 2139646 PMCID: PMC208886 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.5.2477-2484.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Five mutant rho proteins, representing alterations at three different locations in the Escherichia coli rho gene that affect ATP hydrolytic activity but not RNA binding, were examined in vivo for function at the rho-dependent IS2 and bacteriophage lambda tR1 terminators. The altered amino acids in rho are located at highly conserved residues near the beta 1 and beta 4 strands of the hydrophobic ATP-binding pocket that is structurally similar to the F1-type ATPases and adenylate kinase. The RNA-dependent ATPase activities of the mutant rho proteins were previously shown to range from undetectable to a twofold increase over wild-type rho in vitro. Analysis of these proteins within the environment of the cell confirmed that transcription termination in vivo is indeed related to the ability of rho factor to properly hydrolyze nucleoside triphosphates, as would be predicted from results in vitro. The relative efficiency of termination at lambda tR1, as judged by lambda N= plating efficiency and by suppression of polarity of IS2 upstream of galK, was closely linked to the level of RNA-dependent ATPase activity observed in vitro for each protein. Moreover, the termination efficiency of four of the altered rho proteins at IS2 and lambda tR1 in vivo corresponded directly to the effect of these mutations on rho function at the E. coli trp t' terminator in vitro. We conclude that determinations of rho function in vitro accurately reflect its behavior in intracellular termination events.
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- A J Dombroski
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642
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Brennan CA, Steinmetz EJ, Spear P, Platt T. Specificity and efficiency of rho-factor helicase activity depends on magnesium concentration and energy coupling to NTP hydrolysis. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)39380-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Amons R, Schipper A, Möller W. Elongation factor EF-1 alpha from Artemia is specifically labeled at Lys-63 by the guanine nucleotide analog pyridoxal-5'-diphospho-5'-guanosine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1037:401-4. [PMID: 2106916 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(90)90043-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have synthesized the guanine nucleotide analog pyridoxal-5'-diphospho-5'-guanosine. This compound specifically modifies a single lysine residue in elongation factor 1 alpha from Artemia, indicating that this residue is in close contact with the reactive part of the guanine nucleotide analog. This result is discussed in terms of the structure of the nucleotide-binding domain of the factor.
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- R Amons
- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Sylvius Laboratory, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands
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Site-directed alterations in the ATP-binding domain of rho protein affect its activities as a termination factor. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)37353-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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