Mycobacterial HelD is a nucleic acids-clearing factor for RNA polymerase
oleh: Tomáš Kouba, Tomáš Koval’, Petra Sudzinová, Jiří Pospíšil, Barbora Brezovská, Jarmila Hnilicová, Hana Šanderová, Martina Janoušková, Michaela Šiková, Petr Halada, Michal Sýkora, Ivan Barvík, Jiří Nováček, Mária Trundová, Jarmila Dušková, Tereza Skálová, URee Chon, Katsuhiko S. Murakami, Jan Dohnálek, Libor Krásný
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-12-01 |
Deskripsi
The bacterial helicase-like transcription factor HelD associates with the RNA polymerase (RNAP) and recycles stalled transcription complexes. Here, the authors present the cryo-EM structures of three Mycobacterium smegmatis HelD bound RNAP complexes and further show that HelD can prevent the binding of the RNAP core to non-specific DNA and also actively removes RNAP from stalled elongation complexes.