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| Title | The bacterial multidrug resistance regulator BmrR distorts promoter DNA to activate transcription. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Page 6284, Year 2020 |
| Publish date | Dec 8, 2020 |
Authors | Chengli Fang / Linyu Li / Yihan Zhao / Xiaoxian Wu / Steven J Philips / Linlin You / Mingkang Zhong / Xiaojin Shi / Thomas V O'Halloran / Qunyi Li / Yu Zhang / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | The MerR-family proteins represent a unique family of bacteria transcription factors (TFs), which activate transcription in a manner distinct from canonical ones. Here, we report a cryo-EM structure ...The MerR-family proteins represent a unique family of bacteria transcription factors (TFs), which activate transcription in a manner distinct from canonical ones. Here, we report a cryo-EM structure of a B. subtilis transcription activation complex comprising B. subtilis six-subunit (2αββ'ωε) RNA Polymerase (RNAP) core enzyme, σ, a promoter DNA, and the ligand-bound B. subtilis BmrR, a prototype of MerR-family TFs. The structure reveals that RNAP and BmrR recognize the upstream promoter DNA from opposite faces and induce four significant kinks from the -35 element to the -10 element of the promoter DNA in a cooperative manner, which restores otherwise inactive promoter activity by shortening the length of promoter non-optimal -35/-10 spacer. Our structure supports a DNA-distortion and RNAP-non-contact paradigm of transcriptional activation by MerR TFs. |
External links | Nat Commun / PubMed:33293519 / PubMed Central |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 4.4 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-30390, PDB-7ckq: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-ZN: ![]() ChemComp-P4P: |
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Keywords | TRANSCRIPTION / RNA polymerase / Transcription activation |
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