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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

An SI3-σ arch stabilizes cyanobacteria transcription initiation complex.

Liqiang Shen, Giorgio Lai, Linlin You, Jing Shi, Xiaoxian Wu, Maria Puiu, Zhanxi Gu, Yu Feng, Yulia Yuzenkova, Yu Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Structure and function of the Si3 insertion integrated into the trigger loop/helix of cyanobacterial RNA polymerase.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  11. DNA looping mediates cooperative transcription activation.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Liqiang ShenKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8862-1586
Giorgio LaiCentre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6879-7672
Linlin YouKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
Jing ShiDepartment of Biophysics, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Xiaoxian WuKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
Maria PuiuCentre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, UK.
Zhanxi GuKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.
Yu FengDepartment of Biophysics, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4239-8320
Yulia YuzenkovaCentre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AX, UK.
Yu ZhangKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1778-8389
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNNewcastle University · GBSir Run Run Shaw Hospital · CN

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/W017385/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multisubunit RNA polymerases (RNAPs) associate with initiation factors (σ in bacteria) to start transcription. The σ factors are responsible for recognizing and unwinding promoter DNA in all bacterial RNAPs. Here, we report two cryo-EM structures of cyanobacterial transcription initiation complexes at near-atomic resolutions. The structures show that cyanobacterial RNAP forms an "SI3-σ" arch interaction between domain 2 of σ

Indexed as

CyanobacteriaEscherichia coliDNADNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesModels, MolecularMutagenesis, InsertionalSigma FactorTranscription, GeneticDNADNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesSigma Factorcyanobacteriagene transcriptionRNA polymerasetranscription initiationtranscription initiation factor

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PMID37036976
PMCPMC10120043
OpenAlexW4363675568

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