CYCLING OF RIBONUCLEIC-ACID POLYMERASE TO PRODUCE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES DURING INITIATION INVITRO AT THE LAC UV5 PROMOTER
CYCLING OF RIBONUCLEIC-ACID POLYMERASE TO PRODUCE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES DURING INITIATION INVITRO AT THE LAC UV5 PROMOTER
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00555a023
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
GRALLA, JD
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作者:
CARPOUSIS, AJ;GRALLA, JD
Agamemnon J. Carpousis* and Jay D. Gralla abstract: High-resolution gel electrophoresis has been used to detect and quantitate promoter-specific oligonucleotides produced duringinitiation of transcriptionin vitro atthe lactose operon (lac) UV5 promoter. Theresolved products are RNA species of various lengths which correspond to the initial lac mRNA sequence. Quantitation shows that many oligo-nucleotides can be formed per preinitiation complex, including species as long as hexanucleotide. Synthesis occurs without dissociation of the enzyme, as evidenced by levels of synthesis in the presence of heparin, a selective inhibitor of free RNA polymerase. Thus, RNA polymerase cycles at this promoter in vitro producing oligonucleotides reiteratively. In general, the yield of oligonucleotides decreases when the total con-centration of all four substrates is increased or when a missing nucleoside triphosphate substrate is added. Nevertheless, oligonucleotide synthesispersists under all conditions tested.