Shutt Timothy E, Bestwick Megan, Shadel Gerald S
Department of Pathology Yale University School of Medicine; New Haven, CT USA.
Transcription. 2011 Mar;2(2):55-59. doi: 10.4161/trns.2.2.14296.
We recently demonstrated that the core transcription initiation complex in human mitochondria is a two-component system (POLRMT and h-mtTFB2). Human mtTFA/TFAM, previously proposed to be a requisite initiation complex member, is dispensable for promoter-specific initiation in vitro. We propose that it instead regulates relative promoter activity and/or overall nucleoid transcription and replication potential.
我们最近证明,人类线粒体中的核心转录起始复合物是一个双组分系统(POLRMT和h-mtTFB2)。先前被认为是必需起始复合物成员的人类mtTFA/TFAM,在体外对于启动子特异性起始是可有可无的。我们提出,它反而调节相对启动子活性和/或整体类核转录及复制潜能。