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ArticleMolecular microbiology2009

TBP domain symmetry in basal and activated archaeal transcription.

Mohamed Ouhammouch, Winfried Hausner, E Peter Geiduschek

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Archaeal transcription.Transcription · 2020
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  6. Transcriptional activation in the context of repression mediated by archaeal histones.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohamed OuhammouchDivision of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0634, USA. mouham@biomail.ucsd.edu
Winfried Hausner
E Peter Geiduschek
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

PROKARYOTIC CHROMATIN &TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONR01GM039418 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GEIDUSCHEK, ERNEST PETER · 1988 to 2009
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM039418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The TATA box binding protein (TBP) is the platform for assembly of archaeal and eukaryotic transcription preinitiation complexes. Ancestral gene duplication and fusion events have produced the saddle-shaped TBP molecule, with its two direct-repeat subdomains and pseudo-two-fold symmetry. Collectively, eukaryotic TBPs have diverged from their present-day archaeal counterparts, which remain highly symmetrical. The similarity of the N- and C-halves of archaeal TBPs is especially pronounced in the Methanococcales and Thermoplasmatales, including complete conservation of their N- and C-terminal stirrups; along with helix H'1, the C-terminal stirrup of TBP forms the main interface with TFB/TFIIB. Here, we show that, in stark contrast to its eukaryotic counterparts, multiple substitutions in the C-terminal stirrup of Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (Mja) TBP do not completely abrogate basal transcription. Using DNA affinity cleavage, we show that, by assembling TFB through its conserved N-terminal stirrup, Mja TBP is in effect ambidextrous with regard to basal transcription. In contrast, substitutions in either its N- or the C-terminal stirrup abrogate activated transcription in response to the Lrp-family transcriptional activator Ptr2.

Indexed as

Transcriptional ActivationArchaeal ProteinsDNA, ArchaealGene Expression Regulation, ArchaealMethanococcalesTATA-Box Binding ProteinTranscription, GeneticArchaeal ProteinsDNA, ArchaealTATA-Box Binding Protein

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PMID19007415
PMCPMC2670189
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