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ELIFE
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.62117
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [P41 GM109824, P41 GM103314, R01 GM114450, R35 GM118130]
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Transcription-coupled repair (TCR), a sub-pathway of nucleotide excision repair (NER), removes lesions from the template-strand that stall RNA polymerase elongation complexes. Cryo-electron microscopy was used to visualize Mfd engaging with a stalled EC and dislodging the RNAP, showing how Mfd discriminates between paused and stalled ECs and initiates TCR through a complex mechanism.
Transcription-coupled repair (TCR) is a sub-pathway of nucleotide excision repair (NER) that preferentially removes lesions from the template-strand (t-strand) that stall RNA polymerase (RNAP) elongation complexes (ECs). Mfd mediates TCR in bacteria by removing the stalled RNAP concealing the lesion and recruiting Uvr(A)BC. We used cryo-electron microscopy to visualize Mfd engaging with a stalled EC and attempting to dislodge the RNAP. We visualized seven distinct Mfd-EC complexes in both ATP and ADP-bound states. The structures explain how Mfd is remodeled from its repressed conformation, how the UvrA-interacting surface of Mfd is hidden during most of the remodeling process to prevent premature engagement with the NER pathway, how Mfd alters the RNAP conformation to facilitate disassembly, and how Mfd forms a processive translocation complex after dislodging the RNAP. Our results reveal an elaborate mechanism for how Mfd kinetically discriminates paused from stalled ECs and disassembles stalled ECs to initiate TCR.
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