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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 276, Issue 45, 41850-41855, November 9, 2001

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Alternate Paradigm for Intrinsic Transcription Termination in Eubacteria^*,

Shyam Unniraman, Ranjana Prakash^§, and Valakunja Nagaraja^¶

From the  Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India and ^¶ Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 560064, India

Intrinsic transcription terminators are functionally defined as sites that bring about termination in vitro with purified RNA polymerase alone. Based on studies in Escherichia coli, intrinsic termination requires a palindromic stretch followed by a trail of T (or U) residues in the coding strand. We have developed a highly efficient algorithm to identify hairpin potential sequences in bacterial genomes in order to build a general model for intrinsic transcription termination. The algorithm was applied to analyze the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. We find that hairpin potential sequences are concentrated in the immediate downstream of stop codons. However, most of these structures either lack the U trail entirely or have a mixed A/U trail reflecting an evolutionarily relaxed requirement for the U trail in the mycobacterial genome. Predicted atypical structures were shown to work efficiently as terminators both inside the mycobacterial cell and in vitro with purified RNA polymerase. The results are discussed in light of the kinetic competition models for transcription termination. The algorithm identifies >90% of experimentally tested terminators in bacteria and is an invaluable tool in identifying transcription units in whole genomes.

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