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ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2019

In vitro reconstitution of yeast RNA polymerase II transcription initiation with high efficiency.

Rina Fujiwara, Kenji Murakami

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Article in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2019. 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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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rina FujiwaraDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Kenji MurakamiDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: kenjim@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Functional and structural studies of the transition from transcription initiation to elongationR01GM123233 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MURAKAMI, KENJI · 2017 to 2025
$3.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcription initiation can be reconstituted from highly purified general transcription factors (GTFs), RNA polymerase II (pol II), and promoter DNA. However, earlier biochemical reconstitution systems had a serious technical limitation, namely very poor initiation efficiency. Due to the poor efficiency of the reaction and trace amounts of proteins involved in the pre-initiation complex (PIC) assembly, detection of transcription and PIC formation was only possible by the synthesis of a radiolabeled transcript and by immunoblotting for PIC components on templates. Here we describe a transcription system that is capable of initiating transcription with >90% efficiency of template usage using homogeneous, active yeast components including TFIIA, TFIIB, TBP, TFIIE, TFIIF, TFIIH, Sub1, and pol II. The abundant specifically assembled PICs on promoter DNA can be separated from free general transcription factors (GTFs) and pol II by density gradient sedimentation, irrespective of the length of promoter DNA. The system is robust, and can be modified to accommodate many other transcription factors, and the resulting complexes can be analyzed by SDS-PAGE followed by Coomassie Blue staining. This technical advance now paves the way to conduct definitive biochemical and structural studies of the complete process of pol II initiation from the PIC, through promoter escape, and finally to productive elongation.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticTranscription Initiation, GeneticMultiprotein ComplexesRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors, TFIITranscription Factor TFIIATranscription Factor TFIIBYeastsMultiprotein ComplexesRNA Polymerase IISaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsTranscription Factors, TFIITranscription Factor TFIIATranscription Factor TFIIBtranscription factor TFIIEtranscription factor TFIIFInitiationIn vitro reconstitutionPre-initiation complexRNA polymerase IITranscriptionYeast

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PMID30905750
PMCPMC6628718
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