PMID:10801781

Citation	Sukhodolets, MV and Jin, DJ (2000) Interaction between RNA polymerase and RapA, a bacterial homolog of the SWI/SNF protein family. J. Biol. Chem. 275:22090-7
Abstract	Recently, we identified a novel Escherichia coli RNA polymerase (RNAP)-associated protein, an ATPase, called RapA (Sukhodolets, M. V. , and Jin, D. J. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 7018-7023). RapA is a bacterial homolog of SWI2/SNF2. We showed that RapA forms a stable complex with RNAP holoenzyme and that binding to RNAP holoenzyme stimulates the ATPase activity of RapA. We have further analyzed the interactions between purified RapA and the two forms of RNAP: core RNAP and RNAP holoenzyme. We found that RapA interacts with either form of RNAP. However, RapA exhibits higher affinity for core RNAP than for RNAP holoenzyme. Chemical cross-linking of the RNAP-RapA complex indicated that the RapA-binding sites are located at the interface between the alpha and beta' subunits of RNAP. Contrary to previously reported results (Muzzin, O., Campbell, E., A., Xia, L., Severinova, E., Darst, S. A., and Severinov, K. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 15157-15161), our in vivo analysis of a rapA null mutant suggested that RapA is not likely to be directly involved in DNA repair.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M000056200
Keywords	Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Isoenzymes/metabolism; Protein Binding
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