Long-range effects in a supercoiled DNA domain generated by transcription in vitro - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 1997 Aug 29;271(4):499-510.
doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1197.
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Long-range effects in a supercoiled DNA domain generated by transcription in vitro
Z Wang et al. J Mol Biol. 1997.
Abstract
The translocation of a transcription complex can transiently introduce positive and negative superhelical windings into the template DNA. To gain further insight into this dynamic DNA supercoiling mechanism and its possible involvement in biological processes, we employed an in vitro system in which site-specific recombination by gammadelta resolvase is topologically coupled to transcription-induced negative supercoiling. Our kinetic experiments suggest that recombination is closely linked to the process of supercoiling by transcription. We utilized the known high speed at which two resolvase-bound recombination sites can pair to form a synaptic complex in kinetic experiments with DNA substrates containing three recombination sites. Our data provide evidence for the existence of a transient gradient of negative supercoiling. Such a gradient seems to be predominantly a consequence of DNA double helix rotation behind a translocating RNA polymerase and originates within a broad region up to two kilobase-pairs upstream of the transcriptional start site. We further demonstrate that the topological coupling between transcription and recombination is not affected when the DNA-bending protein integration host factor from E. coli is bound to multiple sites within the phage lambda attachment region. We discuss implications of our in vitro findings with respect to possible in vivo functions of the dynamic nature of transcription-induced supercoiling.
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