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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2024

Human mitochondrial RNA polymerase structures reveal transcription start-site and slippage mechanism.

Jiayu Shen, Quinten Goovaerts, Yogeeshwar Ajjugal, Brent De Wijngaert, Kalyan Das, Smita S Patel

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Jiayu ShenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8447-9378
Quinten GoovaertsMolecular Structural and Translational Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2168-1103
Yogeeshwar AjjugalDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-7965-7431
Brent De WijngaertMolecular Structural and Translational Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-7551-8897
Kalyan DasMolecular Structural and Translational Virology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8897-324X
Smita S PatelDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2523-4933

Funding

Mechanistic studies of nucleic acid enzymes involved in DNA replication, transcription, and innate immunity.R35GM118086 · NIGMS · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SMITA S PATEL · 2016 to 2026
$8.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118086
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human mitochondrial RNA polymerase (POLRMT) and protein factors TFAM and TFB2M assemble on mitochondrial DNA promoters to initiate promoter-specific transcription. We present cryo-EM structures of two initiation complexes, IC3 and slipped-IC3, with fully resolved transcription bubbles containing RNA transcripts starting from +1 and -1 positions, respectively. These structures reveal the mechanisms of promoter melting, start site selection, and slippage synthesis. Promoter melting begins at -4 with base-specific interactions of -4 and -3 template guanines with POLRMT and -1 non-template adenine with TFB2M, stabilizing the bubble and facilitating initiation from +1. Slippage occurs when a synthesized 2-mer RNA shifts to -1; the -1 position is not an alternative start-site. The conserved non-template sequence (-1)AAA(+2) is recognized by a non-template stabilizing loop (K

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abortive synthesisPOLRMTpromoter meltingTFAMTFB2Mtranscription initiation

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