PMID: 6159922Oct 17, 1980Paper

RNA-polymerase binding at the promoters of the rRNA genes of Escherichia coli

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
I KissH Delius

Abstract

The promoter region of two bacterial rRNA genes was investigated by electron-microscopic analysis of polymerase binding, transcription initiation and nitrocellulose filtration of RNA-polymerase-DNA complexes, using restriction endonuclease generated fragments of recombinant plasmids and a transducing phage. The following observations have been made: 1. Two transcription initiation sites have been located approximately 200 and 300 base pairs upstream from the beginning of the sequence coding for mature 16 S rRNA. 2. Polymerase binding at these sites can be observed electronmicroscopically and a 360 base-pair fragment containing these sites binds to nitrocellulose in the presence of RNA-polymerase. This complex dissociates even at moderately high (0.1-0.2 M) salt concentrations. Although transcription initiation is reported to be more frequent at the first of these sites, the binding is much stronger at the second site. 3. In the case of the rrnD gene, BamHI cleaves a few base pairs upstream from the first transcription start site. This cleavage destroys polymerase binding at this site but does not influence binding at the second site. 4. At higher polymerase/DNA ratio four weak but distinct and regularly spaced binding sites can...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1982·Molecular & General Genetics : MGG·H PriessH Delius
Aug 25, 1981·Nucleic Acids Research·R P MelladoK Murray
Jan 17, 2019·Biochemical Society Transactions·Hamed Mosaei, John Harbottle
Jul 13, 2005·Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids·Pascal MartinBernard Bennetau

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