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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2014

Promoter activation by CII, a potent transcriptional activator from bacteriophage 186.

Iain Murchland, Alexandra Ahlgren-Berg, David G Priest, Ian B Dodd, Keith E Shearwin

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2014. 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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Iain MurchlandDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Alexandra Ahlgren-BergDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
David G PriestDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Ian B DoddDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Keith E ShearwinDepartment of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. Electronic address: keith.shearwin@adelaide.edu.au.
University of Adelaide · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lysogeny promoting protein CII from bacteriophage 186 is a potent transcriptional activator, capable of mediating at least a 400-fold increase in transcription over basal activity. Despite being functionally similar to its counterpart in phage λ, it shows no homology at the level of protein sequence and does not belong to any known family of transcriptional activators. It also has the unusual property of binding DNA half-sites that are separated by 20 base pairs, center to center. Here we investigate the structural and functional properties of CII using a combination of genetics, in vitro assays, and mutational analysis. We find that 186 CII possesses two functional domains, with an independent activation epitope in each. 186 CII owes its potent activity to activation mechanisms that are dependent on both the σ(70) and α C-terminal domain (αCTD) components of RNA polymerase, contacting different functional domains. We also present evidence that like λ CII, 186 CII is proteolytically degraded in vivo, but unlike λ CII, 186 CII proteolysis results in a specific, transcriptionally inactive, degradation product with altered self-association properties.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticAmino Acid SequenceBase SequenceDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesDNA Mutational AnalysisEpitopesMass SpectrometryModels, GeneticModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesisOligonucleotidesPlasmidsProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiarySigma FactorcII protein, bacteriophage lambdaDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEpitopesOligonucleotidesRNA polymerase sigma 70Sigma FactorTranscription FactorsViral ProteinsBacterial TranscriptionBacteriophageGene TranscriptionMutational ScreenPromoterProtein Structure-FunctionProteolysisRNA Polymerase

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PMID25294872
PMCPMC4231686
OpenAlexW2003713022

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