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- Title
Spt4/5 stimulates transcription elongation through the RNA polymerase clamp coiled-coil motif.
- Authors
Hirtreiter, Angela; Damsma, Gerke E; Cheung, Alan C M; Klose, Daniel; Grohmann, Dina; Vojnic, Erika; Martin, Andrew C R; Cramer, Patrick; Werner, Finn
- Abstract
Spt5 is the only known RNA polymerase-associated factor that is conserved in all three domains of life. We have solved the structure of the Methanococcus jannaschii Spt4/5 complex by X-ray crystallography, and characterized its function and interaction with the archaeal RNAP in a wholly recombinant in vitro transcription system. Archaeal Spt4 and Spt5 form a stable complex that associates with RNAP independently of the DNA-RNA scaffold of the elongation complex. The association of Spt4/5 with RNAP results in a stimulation of transcription processivity, both in the absence and the presence of the non-template strand. A domain deletion analysis reveals the molecular anatomy of Spt4/5--the Spt5 Nus-G N-terminal (NGN) domain is the effector domain of the complex that both mediates the interaction with RNAP and is essential for its elongation activity. Using a mutagenesis approach, we have identified a hydrophobic pocket on the Spt5 NGN domain as binding site for RNAP, and reciprocally the RNAP clamp coiled-coil motif as binding site for Spt4/5.
- Publication
Nucleic acids research, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 12, p4040
- ISSN
1362-4962
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/nar/gkq135