Abstract
Bacteriophage T4 codes at least for two ADP-ribosylating activities, the 76 kDa Alt and the 24 kDa Mod gene products. The main target for both enzymes is the host RNA polymerase. We cloned and sequenced the alt gene and overexpressed the corresponding enzyme. The recombinant protein shows ADP-ribosylating activities in vitro, as had been described earlier for the native enzyme isolated from phage heads. The native as well as the recombinant protein ADP-ribosylate the alpha-subunit of RNA polymerase, but also subunits beta, beta' and sigma 70 and perform an autoribosylation reaction. Taking advantage of the pKWIII test system, constructed to measure promoter strengths in vivo, it was found that ADP-ribosylation of RNA polymerase leads to an increase of transcription from T4 early promoters up to a factor of two. In an infected host cell this should cause an enhanced expression of T4 genes. Depending on whether RNA polymerase was ADP-ribosylated or not, it initiated transcription at T4 promoters with different sequence characteristics: unribosylated RNA polymerase recognizes the early T4 promoters by an extended -10 region, whereas the ribosylated enzyme selects for T4 early promoters with an extended T4-specific and highly conse...Continue Reading
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