کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1941010 1050793 2006 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Structure and dynamics of RNA polymerase II elongation complex
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Structure and dynamics of RNA polymerase II elongation complex
چکیده انگلیسی

RNA polymerase (Pol) II is a fundamental and important enzyme in the transcription process. However, two mysterious questions have remained unsolved: how an unwound bubble of DNA is established and maintained, and how the enzyme moves along the DNA. To answer these questions, we constructed a model structure of the Pol II elongation complex with the 50 base pairs of DNA-24 bases of RNA including the unwound bubble of DNA and performed a molecular dynamics simulation. We obtained a reliable model structure of the Pol II elongation complex in the pre-translocation state which has not yet been determined by the X-ray crystallographic study. The model structure revealed that multiple protein loops work concertedly to form and maintain the bubble structure. We also found that the conformational change of a loop in the Pol II, fork loop 1, couples with the unidirectional movement of the Pol II along the DNA.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 343, Issue 1, 28 April 2006, Pages 90–98
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