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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

RNA polymerase inhibitors reveal active-site motions essential for the nucleotide addition cycle.

Yukti Dhingra, Robert Landick, Elizabeth A Campbell, Seth A Darst

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Yukti DhingraLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0001-9060-8201
Robert LandickDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.ORCID 0000-0002-5042-0383
Elizabeth A CampbellLaboratory of Molecular Pathogenesis, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-1332-128X
Seth A DarstLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-8241-3153

Funding

STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEX RNA HAIRPINSR01GM038660 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Robert Landick · 1992 to 2026
$12.2M
Structure, function, and regulation of the bacterial transcription cycleR35GM118130 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI DARST, SETH A. · 2016 to 2025
$8.9M
Structural and functional studies of the mycobacterial transcription cycleR35GM151879 · NIGMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ELIZABETH A CAMPBELL · 2024 to 2026
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038660NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118130NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM151879NIH/NIGMS R01 GM38330Pels Family Center for Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust to The Rockefeller University Postdoctoral Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nucleotide addition cycle (NAC) of multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RNAPs) involves coordinated conformational changes in conserved active-site structural elements, including the trigger loop (TL). The TL is open (unfolded) in most RNAP structures but can close (fold) in substrate-bound (post- or pretranslocated) states of the RNAP, promoting catalysis. TL closure has been associated with closure of another conserved structural element, the Rim-Helices/F-loop (RH-FL), but the role of the RH-FL in the NAC is unclear. Antibiotic leads CBR9379 and AAP-SO

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DNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEnzyme InhibitorsNucleotidesAnti-Bacterial AgentsCatalytic DomainCryoelectron MicroscopyEscherichia coliModels, MolecularMycobacterium tuberculosisAnti-Bacterial AgentsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEnzyme InhibitorsNucleotidesallosteric inhibitionantibiotic mechanismcryo-electron microscopynucleotide additionRNA polymerase

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PMID42378287
PMCPMC13342826

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