Golub E I, Ward D C, Radding C M
Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1992 Jun 25;20(12):3121-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/20.12.3121.
In the presence of the non-hydrolyzable analog of ATP, ATP gamma S, RecA protein can polymerize on an oligodeoxy-ribonucleotide to form a stable oligonucleoprotein filament that can find its homologous sequence in double-stranded DNA. The homologous joint formed by the oligonucleotide and duplex DNA is stable only if RecA protein is not removed. Such a nucleoprotein joint, covering a part or all of the promoter region of T3 or T7 phage RNA polymerase, blocked transcription directed by those polymerases. The same kind of joint, located downstream of the RNA polymerase promoter, also inhibited elongation of transcription and caused accumulation of truncated transcripts. These observations suggest that RecA protein can be used to shut off transcription from any promoter of known sequence.
在存在ATP的不可水解类似物ATPγS的情况下,RecA蛋白可以在寡聚脱氧核糖核苷酸上聚合,形成稳定的寡核苷酸蛋白细丝,该细丝能够在双链DNA中找到其同源序列。仅当RecA蛋白不被去除时,由寡核苷酸和双链DNA形成的同源接头才是稳定的。这种覆盖T3或T7噬菌体RNA聚合酶启动子区域一部分或全部的核蛋白接头,阻断了那些聚合酶指导的转录。位于RNA聚合酶启动子下游的同类型接头,也抑制转录延伸并导致截短转录本的积累。这些观察结果表明,RecA蛋白可用于关闭来自任何已知序列启动子的转录。