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Article Dans Une Revue Nucleic Acids Research Année : 2018

RbpA relaxes promoter selectivity of M. tuberculosis RNA polymerase

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The transcriptional activator RbpA associates with Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase (MtbRNAP) during transcription initiation, and stimulates formation of the MtbRNAP-promoter open complex (RPo). Here, we explored the influence of promoter motifs on RbpA-mediated activation of MtbRNAP containing the stress-response σB subunit. We show that both the 'extended -10' promoter motif (T-17G-16T-15G-14) and RbpA stabilized RPo and allowed promoter opening at suboptimal temperatures. Furthermore, in the presence of the T-17G-16T-15G-14 motif, RbpA was dispensable for RNA synthesis initiation, while exerting a stabilization effect on RPo. On the other hand, RbpA compensated for the lack of sequence-specific interactions of domains 3 and 4 of σB with the extended -10 and the -35 motifs, respectively. Mutations of the positively charged residues K73, K74 and R79 in RbpA basic linker (BL) had little effect on RPo formation, but affected MtbRNAP capacity for de novo transcription initiation. We propose that RbpA stimulates transcription by strengthening the non-specific interaction of the σ subunit with promoter DNA upstream of the -10 element, and by indirectly optimizing MtbRNAP interaction with initiation substrates. Consequently, RbpA renders MtbRNAP promiscuous in promoter selection, thus compensating for the weak conservation of the -35 motif in mycobacteria.
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inserm-02137260 , version 1 (22-05-2019)

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Ayyappasamy Sudalaiyadum Perumal, Rishi kishore Vishwakarma, Yangbo Hu, Zakia Morichaud, Konstantin Brodolin. RbpA relaxes promoter selectivity of M. tuberculosis RNA polymerase. Nucleic Acids Research, 2018, 46 (19), pp.10106-10118. ⟨10.1093/nar/gky714⟩. ⟨inserm-02137260⟩
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