Selby C P, Sancar A
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Oct 14;94(21):11205-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.94.21.11205.
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is characterized by impaired physical and mental development. Two complementation groups, CSA and CSB, have been identified. Here we report that the CSB gene product enhances elongation by RNA polymerase II. CSB stimulated the rate of elongation on an undamaged template by a factor of about 3. A thymine-thymine cyclobutane dimer located in the template strand is known to be a strong block to transcription. Addition of CSB to the blocked polymerase resulted in addition of one nucleotide to the nascent transcript. Finally, addition of transcription factor IIS is known to cause polymerase blocked at a thymine-thymine cyclobutane dimer to digest its nascent transcript, and CSB counteracted this transcript shortening action of transcription factor IIS. Thus a deficiency in transcription elongation may contribute to the CS phenotype.
科凯恩综合征(CS)的特征是身体和智力发育受损。已经鉴定出两个互补组,即CSA和CSB。在此我们报告,CSB基因产物可增强RNA聚合酶II的延伸能力。CSB将未受损模板上的延伸速率提高了约3倍。已知位于模板链中的胸腺嘧啶-胸腺嘧啶环丁烷二聚体是转录的强大阻碍。向受阻的聚合酶中添加CSB会导致新生转录本添加一个核苷酸。最后,已知添加转录因子IIS会使在胸腺嘧啶-胸腺嘧啶环丁烷二聚体处受阻的聚合酶消化其新生转录本,而CSB可抵消转录因子IIS的这种转录本缩短作用。因此,转录延伸缺陷可能导致CS表型。