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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2019

A Viral T7 RNA Polymerase Ratcheting Along DNA With Fidelity Control.

Chunhong Long, Chao E, Lin-Tai Da, Jin Yu

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Heterogeneous template-dependent transcription dynamics of T7 RNAP revealed by single-molecule imaging.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Dissecting nucleotide selectivity in viral RNA polymerases.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chunhong LongBeijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100193, China.
Chao EBeijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100193, China.
Lin-Tai DaShanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Jin YuBeijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, 100193, China.
Beijing Computational Science Research Center · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA polymerase (RNAP) from bacteriophage T7 is a representative single-subunit viral RNAP that can transcribe with high promoter activities without assistances from transcription factors. We accordingly studied this small transcription machine computationally as a model system to understand underlying mechanisms of mechano-chemical coupling and fidelity control in the RNAP transcription elongation. Here we summarize our computational work from several recent publications to demonstrate first how T7 RNAP translocates via Brownian alike motions along DNA right after the catalytic product release. Then we show how the backward translocation motions are prevented at post-translocation upon successful nucleotide incorporation, which is also subject to stepwise nucleotide selection and acts as a pawl for "selective ratcheting". The structural dynamics and energetics features revealed from our atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and related analyses on the single-subunit T7 RNAP thus provided detailed and quantitative characterizations on the Brownian-ratchet working scenario of a prototypical transcription machine with sophisticated nucleotide selectivity for fidelity control. The presented mechanisms can be more or less general for structurally similar viral or mitochondrial RNAPs and some of DNA polymerases, or even for the RNAP engine of the more complicated transcription machinery in higher organisms.

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Fidelity controlNucleotide selectionPPi releaseRNA polymeraseTranslocation

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PMID31193497
PMCPMC6535458
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