Mutations in the alpha-amanitin conserved domain of the largest subunit of yeast RNA polymerase III affect pausing, RNA cleavage and transcriptional transitions.
AUTOR(ES)
Thuillier, V
RESUMO
The alpha-amanitin domain or domain f of the largest subunit of RNA polymerases is one of the most conserved of these enzymes. We have found that the C-terminal part of domain f can be swapped between yeast RNA polymerase II and III. An extensive mutagenesis of domain f of C160, the largest subunit of RNA polymerase III, was carried out to better define its role and understand the mechanism through which C160 participates in transcription. One mutant enzyme, C160-270, showed much reduced transcription of a non-specific template at low DNA concentrations. Abortive synthesis of trinucleotides in a dinucleotide-primed reaction proceeded at roughly wild-type levels, indicating that the mutation did not affect the formation of the first phosphodiester bond, but rather the transition from abortive initiation to processive elongation. In specific transcription assays, on the SUP4 tRNA gene, pausing was extended but the rate of RNA elongation between pause sites was not affected. Finally, the rate of cleavage of nascent RNA transcripts by halted mutant RNA polymerase was increased approximately 10-fold. We propose that the domain f mutation affects the transition between two transcriptional modes, one being adopted during abortive transcription and at pause sites, the other during elongation between pause sites.
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