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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 113(31): 8693-8, 2016 08 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27436904

ABSTRACT

The coliphage HK022 protein Nun transcription elongation arrest factor inhibits RNA polymerase translocation. In vivo, Nun acts specifically to block transcription of the coliphage λ chromosome. Using in vitro assays, we demonstrate that Nun cross-links RNA in an RNA:DNA hybrid within a ternary elongation complex (TEC). Both the 5' and the 3' ends of the RNA cross-link Nun, implying that Nun contacts RNA polymerase both at the upstream edge of the RNA:DNA hybrid and in the vicinity of the catalytic center. This finding suggests that Nun may inhibit translocation by more than one mechanism. Transcription elongation factor GreA efficiently blocked Nun cross-linking to the 3' end of the transcript, whereas the highly homologous GreB factor did not. Surprisingly, both factors strongly suppressed Nun cross-linking to the 5' end of the RNA, suggesting that GreA and GreB can enter the RNA exit channel as well as the secondary channel, where they are known to bind. These findings extend the known action mechanism for these ubiquitous cellular factors.


Subject(s)
Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic , Viral Proteins/metabolism , Amino Acid Sequence , Bacteriophage HK022/genetics , DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/chemistry , Gene Expression Regulation, Viral , Models, Molecular , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Protein Binding , Protein Domains , RNA, Viral/chemistry , RNA, Viral/genetics , RNA, Viral/metabolism , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcriptional Elongation Factors/chemistry , Transcriptional Elongation Factors/metabolism , Viral Proteins/chemistry , Viral Proteins/genetics
2.
Mol Cell ; 31(5): 683-94, 2008 Sep 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18775328

ABSTRACT

We describe a mechanism by which nascent RNA inhibits transcriptional pausing. PutL RNA of bacteriophage HK022 suppresses transcription termination at downstream terminators and pausing within a nearby U-rich sequence. In vitro transcription and footprinting assays reveal that this pausing results from backtracking of RNA polymerase and that binding of nascent putL RNA to polymerase limits backtracking by restricting re-entry of the transcript into the RNA exit channel. The restriction is local and relaxes as the transcript elongates. Our results suggest that putL RNA binds to the surface of polymerase close to the RNA exit channel, a region that includes amino acid residues important for antitermination. Although binding is essential for antipausing and antitermination, these two activities of put differ: antipausing is limited to the immediate vicinity of the putL site, but antitermination is not. We propose that RNA anchoring to the elongation complex is a widespread mechanism of pause regulation.


Subject(s)
DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism , Gene Expression Regulation , RNA/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic , Viral Proteins/metabolism , Animals , Bacteriophage HK022/genetics , Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , Base Sequence , DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/genetics , Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics , Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism , Models, Molecular , Molecular Sequence Data , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Oligonucleotides, Antisense/genetics , Oligonucleotides, Antisense/metabolism , Protein Conformation , RNA/genetics , Transcriptional Elongation Factors/genetics , Transcriptional Elongation Factors/metabolism , Uridine/metabolism , Viral Proteins/genetics
3.
J Mol Biol ; 380(5): 812-9, 2008 Jul 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18571198

ABSTRACT

The Nun protein of coliphage HK022 excludes superinfecting lambda phage. Nun recognizes and binds to the N utilization (nut) sites on phage lambda nascent RNA and induces transcription termination. Overexpression of Nun from a high-copy plasmid is toxic for Escherichia coli, despite the fact that nut sites are not encoded in the E. coli genome. Cells expressing Nun cannot exit stationary phase. Toxicity is related to transcription termination, since host and nun mutations that block termination also suppress cell killing. Nun inhibits expression of wild-type lacZ, but not lacZ expressed from the Crp/cAMP-independent lacUV5 promoter. Microarray and proteomic analyses show that Nun down-regulates crp and tnaA. Crp overexpression and high indole concentrations partially reverse Nun-mediated toxicity and restore lacZ expression.


Subject(s)
Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , Escherichia coli/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Transcription Factors/toxicity , Viral Proteins/metabolism , Viral Proteins/toxicity , Bacteriophage HK022/genetics , Down-Regulation , Escherichia coli/growth & development , Indoles/analysis , Indoles/metabolism , Lac Operon/genetics , Mutation , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Terminator Regions, Genetic , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription, Genetic , Viral Proteins/genetics
4.
Biochemistry ; 47(28): 7352-63, 2008 Jul 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18570436

ABSTRACT

Lacticin 481 is a lanthionine-containing bacteriocin (lantibiotic) produced by Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis. The final steps of lacticin 481 biosynthesis are proteolytic removal of an N-terminal leader sequence from the prepeptide LctA and export of the mature lantibiotic. Both proteolysis and secretion are performed by the dedicated ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter LctT. LctT belongs to the family of AMS (ABC transporter maturation and secretion) proteins whose prepeptide substrates share a conserved double-glycine type cleavage site. The in vitro activity of a lantibiotic protease has not yet been characterized. This study reports the purification and in vitro activity of the N-terminal protease domain of LctT (LctT150), and its use for the in vitro production of lacticin 481. The G(-2)A(-1) cleavage site and several other conserved amino acid residues in the leader peptide were targeted by site-directed mutagenesis to probe the substrate specificity of LctT as well as shed light upon the role of these conserved residues in lantibiotic biosynthesis. His 10-LctT150 did not process most variants of the double glycine motif and processed mutants of Glu-8 only very slowly. Furthermore, incorporation of helix-breaking residues in the leader peptide resulted in greatly decreased proteolytic activity by His 10-LctT150. On the other hand, His 10-LctT150 accepted all peptides containing mutations in the propeptide or at nonconserved positions of LctA. In addition, the protease domain of LctT was investigated by site-directed mutagenesis of the conserved residues Cys12, His90, and Asp106. The proteolytic activities of the resulting mutant proteins are consistent with a cysteine protease.


Subject(s)
Bacteriocins/metabolism , Peptide Hydrolases/metabolism , Bacteriocins/biosynthesis , Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , Kinetics , Lactococcus lactis/metabolism , Models, Molecular , Nucleic Acid Conformation , Protein Conformation , RNA, Bacterial/chemistry , RNA, Bacterial/metabolism , Substrate Specificity , Templates, Genetic , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Viral Proteins/chemistry , Viral Proteins/metabolism
5.
J Mol Biol ; 359(1): 10-21, 2006 May 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16631197

ABSTRACT

The 109 amino acid residue Nun protein expressed from prophage HK022 excludes superinfecting phage lambda by arresting transcription on the lambda chromosome near the lambdanut sites. In vitro, the Nun N terminus binds to nascent lambdanutRNA, whereas the C terminus interacts with RNA polymerase and DNA template. Escherichia coli host factors, NusA, NusB, NusE (S10), and NusG, stimulate Nun-arrest. NusA binds the Nun C terminus and enhances formation of the Nun-nutRNA complex. Because of these in vitro activities of NusA, and since a nusA mutation (nusAE136K) blocked Nun in vivo, we assumed that NusA was required for Nun activity. However, using a nusAts strain, we find that NusA is required for termination at nutR but not at nutL. Furthermore, nusAE136K is dominant to nusA(+) for Nun-arrest, both in vitro and in vivo. NusAE136K shows increased affinity for Nun and, unlike NusA(+), can readily be recovered in a ternary complex with Nun and nutRNA. We propose NusAE136K suppresses Nun-arrest when it is a component of the transcription elongation complex, perhaps, in part, by blocking interactions between the Nun C terminus and RNA polymerase and DNA. We also find that in contrast to Nun-arrest, antitermination by lambda N requires NusA.


Subject(s)
Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism , Peptide Elongation Factors/metabolism , Terminator Regions, Genetic , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic , Viral Proteins/metabolism , Bacteriophage HK022/genetics , Bacteriophage lambda/genetics , Bacteriophage lambda/metabolism , DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism , Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics , Macromolecular Substances , Models, Genetic , Mutation , Peptide Elongation Factors/genetics , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcriptional Elongation Factors , Viral Proteins/genetics
6.
FEBS Lett ; 545(2-3): 133-8, 2003 Jun 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12804763

ABSTRACT

A mutated excisionase (Xis) protein of coliphage HK022 whose single Cys residue was replaced by Ser does not bind to its two tandem binding sites (X1, X2) on the P arm of attR. Despite its DNA-binding inability the protein showed 30% excision activity of the wild type Xis both in vitro and in vivo. This partial activity is attributed to the interaction of Xis with integrase that is retained in the mutant protein. This protein-protein interaction occurs in the absence of DNA binding.


Subject(s)
Bacteriophage HK022/metabolism , DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/genetics , DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/metabolism , Viral Proteins , Base Sequence , Binding Sites , DNA, Viral/genetics , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Integrases/metabolism , Molecular Sequence Data , Point Mutation , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Recombination, Genetic , Serine/metabolism
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