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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 276, Issue 8, 5720-5725, February 23, 2001

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Inhibition of RNA Polymerase III Elongation by a T₁₀ Peptide Nucleic Acid^*

Giorgio Dieci^§, Roberto Corradini^¶, Stefano Sforza^¶, Rosangela Marchelli^¶, and Simone Ottonello^§

From the  Istituto di Scienze Biochimiche and ^¶ Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Industriale, Università di Parma, I-43100 Parma, Italy

The terminator elements of eukaryotic class III genes strongly contribute to overall transcription efficiency by allowing fast RNA polymerase III (pol III) recycling. Being constituted by a run of thymidine residues on the coding strand (a poly(dA) tract on the transcribed strand), pol III terminators are expected to form highly stable triple-helix complexes with oligothymine peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). We analyzed the effect of a T₁₀ PNA on in vitro transcription of three yeast class III genes (coding for two different tRNAs and the U6 small nuclear RNA) having termination signals of at least ten T residues. At nanomolar concentrations, the PNA almost completely inhibited transcription of supercoiled, but not linearized, templates in a sequence-specific manner. The total RNA output of the first transcription cycle was not affected by PNA concentrations strongly inhibiting multiple round transcription. Thus, an impairment of pol III recycling fully accounts for the observed inhibition. As revealed by the size and the state (free or transcription complex-associated) of the RNAs produced in PNA-inhibited reactions, pol III is "roadblocked" by the DNA-PNA adduct before reaching the terminator region. On different templates, the distance between the active site and the leading edge of the arrested polymerase ranged from 10 to 20 base pairs. Given their ability to efficiently block pol III elongation, oligothymine PNAs lend themselves as potential cell growth inhibitors interfering with eukaryotic class III gene transcription.

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