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Nucleic Acids Research, 1980, Vol. 8, No. 23 5895-5912
© 1980

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

DNA strand specificity in promoter recognition by RNA polymerase+

Chan Suk Park, Zaharia Hillel and Cheng-Wen Wu{dagger}

Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794 and Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY 10461, USA

{dagger}To whom correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed

Received September 5, 1980.

DNA strand and enzyme subunit specificities involved in the interaction between E. coli RNA polymerase and T7 DNA were studied by photo-crosslinking techniques. In non-specific enzyme-DNA complexes, subunits {sigma}, ß, and ß' were crosslinked to both strands of the DNA. Under conditions leading to specific enzyme-promoter complexes, however, only {sigma} and ß subunits were crosslinked. The {sigma} subunit was crosslinked preferentially to the non-sense strand at promoter sites. No such strand specificity was observed for the ß subunit. These results provide insight into the molecular mechanism of promoter recognition and indicate that the interaction between RNA polymerase and DNA template is different at promoters and at non-specific sites.

+This work was supported in part by the research grants GM 28069 from the National Institutes of Health and NP 309 from the American Cancer Society.


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