Molecular mechanism of recruitment of TFIIF- associating RNA polymerase C-terminal domain phosphatase (FCP1) by transcription factor IIF

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Mar 4;100(5):2296-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.262798199. Epub 2003 Feb 18.

Abstract

After mRNA transcription termination in eukaryotes, the hyperphosphorylated form of RNA polymerase II (pol II0) must be recycled by TFIIF-associating C-terminal domain phosphatase (FCP1), the phosphatase responsible for dephosphorylating the C-terminal domain of the largest polymerase subunit. Transcription factor (TF)-IIF stimulates the activity of FCP1, and the RNA polymerase II-associating protein 74 subunit of TFIIF forms a complex with FCP1 in both human and yeast. Here, we report a cocrystal structure of the winged-helix domain of human RNA polymerase II-associating protein 74 bound to the alpha-helical C terminus of human FCP1 (residues 944-961). These results illustrate the molecular mechanism by which TFIIF efficiently recruits FCP1 to the pol II transcription machinery for recycling of the polymerase.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alanine / chemistry
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Escherichia coli / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / chemistry*
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases / metabolism*
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Transcription Factors, TFII / chemistry
  • Transcription Factors, TFII / metabolism*

Substances

  • Transcription Factors, TFII
  • Phosphoprotein Phosphatases
  • carboxy-terminal domain phosphatase
  • transcription factor TFIIF
  • Alanine

Associated data

  • PDB/1J2X