Zinc stoichiometry of yeast RNA polymerase II and characterization of mutations in the zinc-binding domain of the largest subunit.

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Atomic absorption spectroscopy demonstrated that highly purified RNA polymerase II from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae binds seven zinc ions. This number agrees with the number of potential zinc-binding sites among the 12 different subunits of the enzyme and with our observation that the ninth largest subunit alone is able to bind two zinc ions. The zinc-binding motif in the largest subunit of the enzyme was...

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