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Conversion of active promoter-RNA polymerase complexes into inactive promoter bound complexes in E. coli by the transcription effector, ppGpp.
Molecular cell - 18 Mar 2005
Maitra Amarnath, Shulgina Irina, Hernandez V James
Abstract excerpt
Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a signal of nutritional stress that regulates transcription. An RNA polymerase rudder mutant rpoC (Delta 312-315) is found to suppress ppGpp deficiency phenotypes by restoring both negative and positive activities of promoter fusions in vivo, as if ppGpp were present. Measurements of defects in transcription of the PargT tRNA promoter with mutant RNA polymerase reveal that the...
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