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Title | Structural basis of copper-efflux-regulator-dependent transcription activation. |
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Journal, issue, pages | iScience, Vol. 24, Issue 5, Page 102449, Year 2021 |
Publish date | May 21, 2021 |
Authors | Wei Shi / Baoyue Zhang / Yanan Jiang / Chang Liu / Wei Zhou / Ming Chen / Yang Yang / Yangbo Hu / Bin Liu / |
PubMed Abstract | The copper efflux regulator (CueR), a representative member of mercury resistance regulator (MerR) family metalloregulators, controls expression of copper homeostasis-regulating genes in bacteria. ...The copper efflux regulator (CueR), a representative member of mercury resistance regulator (MerR) family metalloregulators, controls expression of copper homeostasis-regulating genes in bacteria. The mechanism of transcription activation by CueR and other MerR family regulators is bending the spacer domain of promoter DNA. Here, we report the cryo-EM structures of the intact CueR-dependent transcription activation complexes. The structures show that CueR dimer bends the 19-bp promoter spacer to realign the -35 and -10 elements for recognition by σ-RNA polymerase holoenzyme and reveal a previously unreported interaction between the DNA-binding domain (DBD) from one CueR subunit and the σ nonconserved region (σNCR). Functional studies have shown that the CueR-σNCR interaction plays an auxiliary role in CueR-dependent transcription, assisting the activation mechanism of bending promoter DNA by CueR dimer. Because DBDs are highly conserved in sequence and structure, this transcription-activating mechanism could be generally used by MerR family regulators. |
External links | iScience / PubMed:34113812 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (single particle) |
Resolution | 3.9 - 4.1 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-22184, PDB-6xh7: EMDB-22185, PDB-6xh8: EMDB-22289: |
Chemicals | ChemComp-ZN: ChemComp-CU: |
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Keywords | TRANSCRIPTION/DNA / transcription activation / RNA polymerase / MerR-family / TRANSCRIPTION / TRANSCRIPTION-DNA complex / TRANSCRIPTION/DNA/RNA / TRANSCRIPTION-DNA-RNA complex |