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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2024

Structure of the Bacteriophage PhiKZ Non-virion RNA Polymerase Transcribing from its Promoter p119L.

Natàlia de Martín Garrido, Chao-Sheng Chen, Kailash Ramlaul, Christopher H S Aylett, Maria Yakunina

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. The biology of jumbo phages.Nature communications · 2026
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  4. The Biology of Nucleus-Forming Jumbo Phages.Annual review of genetics · 2025
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Natàlia de Martín GarridoSection for Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Chao-Sheng ChenSection for Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Kailash RamlaulSection for Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Christopher H S AylettSection for Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: c.aylett@imperial.ac.uk.
Maria YakuninaShenzhen MSU-BIT University, 1 International University Park Road, Dayun New Town, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province 518172, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: yakuninam@gmail.com.

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Wellcome Trust 206212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophage ΦKZ (PhiKZ) is the founding member of a family of giant bacterial viruses. It has potential as a therapeutic as its host, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, kills tens of thousands of people worldwide each year. ΦKZ infection is independent of the host transcriptional apparatus; the virus forms a "nucleus", producing a proteinaceous barrier around the ΦKZ genome that excludes the host immune systems. It expresses its own non-canonical multi-subunit non-virion RNA polymerase (nvRNAP), which is imported into its "nucleus" to transcribe viral genes. The ΦKZ nvRNAP is formed by four polypeptides representing homologues of the eubacterial β/β' subunits, and a fifth that is likely to have evolved from an ancestral homologue to σ-factor. We have resolved the structure of the ΦKZ nvRNAP initiating transcription from its cognate promoter, p119L, including previously disordered regions. Our results shed light on the similarities and differences between ΦKZ nvRNAP mechanisms of transcription and those of canonical eubacterial RNAPs and the related non-canonical nvRNAP of bacteriophage AR9.

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DNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesPromoter Regions, GeneticBacteriophagesCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularProtein ConformationPseudomonas aeruginosaPseudomonas PhagesTranscription, GeneticViral ProteinsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesViral Proteinscryo-EMjumbo-phageRNA polymeraseβ subunitβ′ subunit

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PMID39029888
PMCPMC7618050

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