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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

Oxazinomycin arrests RNA polymerase at the polythymidine sequences.

Ranjit K Prajapati, Petja Rosenqvist, Kaisa Palmu, Janne J Mäkinen, Anssi M Malinen, Pasi Virta, Mikko Metsä-Ketelä, Georgiy A Belogurov

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 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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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ranjit K PrajapatiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Petja RosenqvistDepartment of Chemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Kaisa PalmuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Janne J MäkinenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Anssi M MalinenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Pasi VirtaDepartment of Chemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Mikko Metsä-KeteläDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
Georgiy A BelogurovDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oxazinomycin is a C-nucleoside antibiotic that is produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus and closely resembles uridine. Here, we show that the oxazinomycin triphosphate is a good substrate for bacterial and eukaryotic RNA polymerases (RNAPs) and that a single incorporated oxazinomycin is rapidly extended by the next nucleotide. However, the incorporation of several successive oxazinomycins or a single oxazinomycin in a certain sequence context arrested a fraction of the transcribing RNAP. The addition of Gre RNA cleavage factors eliminated the transcriptional arrest at a single oxazinomycin and shortened the nascent RNAs arrested at the polythymidine sequences suggesting that the transcriptional arrest was caused by backtracking of RNAP along the DNA template. We further demonstrate that the ubiquitous C-nucleoside pseudouridine is also a good substrate for RNA polymerases in a triphosphorylated form but does not inhibit transcription of the polythymidine sequences. Our results collectively suggest that oxazinomycin functions as a Trojan horse substrate and its inhibitory effect is attributable to the oxygen atom in the position corresponding to carbon five of the uracil ring.

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DNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEscherichia coliOxygenPseudomonasRNARNA CleavageStreptomycesSubstrate SpecificityThymidineTranscriptional Elongation FactorsTranscription, GeneticUracilUridineDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesminimycinOxygenRNAThymidineTranscriptional Elongation FactorsUracilUridine

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