Nucleic Acids Research, 1992, Vol. 20, No. 18 4721-4725
© 1992
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Determination of lysine residues affinity labeled in the active site of yeast RNA polymerase II(B) by mutagenesis
Service de Biochimie et Génétique Moléculaire, båtiment 142, DBCM, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay F-91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex, France
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Received July 28, 1992. Revised August 27, 1992. Accepted August 27, 1992.
In a previous study, yeast RNA polymerase II(B) was affinity labeled with two nucleotide derivatives (III and VIII) (1). In both cases, the labeled site was localized to the C-terminal part of the B150 subunit. The potential target lysyl residues of derivative III were mapped to the conserved domain H, between Asn946 and Met999. In the present work, we have mutagenized to arginine the five lysines present in domain H. Three lysines can be replaced, Individually or simultaneously, without affecting cell growth, and each mutated enzyme can still be affinity labeled. Hence one or both of the other two lysyl residues, Lys979 and Lys987, is the target of the affinity reagent. These two lysines were each found to be essential for cell viability. Derivative VIII labeled another domain in addition to domain H. Supported by analogous results obtained for E.coli RNA polymerase using derivative VIII (2), we hypothesized that the second domain labeled by this derivative in the B150 subunit was domain I. Mutagenesis of the unique lysine present in domain I demonstrated that Lys 1102 was the target of derivative VIII. These results indicate that in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic RNA polymerases, domains H and I are in close proximity and participate to the active site.
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