lacP1 promoter with an extended -10 motif. Pleiotropic effects of cyclic AMP protein at different steps of transcription initiation

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Mofang LiuS Adhya

Abstract

The cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP), which activates transcription from the wild-type lacP1 promoter and most of its mutants, represses productive RNA synthesis from a lacP1 promoter variant that contains an extended -10 element, although CRP enhances RNA polymerase binding as well as open complex formation in both promoters. Moreover, abortive RNA synthesis, which is already higher in the extended -10 variant compared with the parent promoter, was further enhanced by CRP. These results, together with the observed decrease in productive RNA synthesis, indicate that CRP, while facilitating the earlier steps of initiation, inhibits transcription from the extended -10 lacP1 by hindering promoter clearance. We propose that CRP decreases energetic barriers to RNA polymerase binding, isomerization, and abortive RNA synthesis but stabilizes the abortive RNA initiating complex, which results in increasing the activation energy of the transition state before the elongation complex. The results demonstrate for the first time that a DNA-binding regulatory protein acts as an activator or a repressor in different steps of the transcription initiation pathway because of the energetic differences of the intermediate complex in the same prom...Continue Reading

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