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. 1993 May 11;21(9):2073–2079. doi: 10.1093/nar/21.9.2073

Synthesis and characterization of a new photocrosslinking CTP analog and its use in photoaffinity labeling E. coli and T7 RNA polymerases.

M M Hanna 1, Y Zhang 1, J C Reidling 1, M J Thomas 1, J Jou 1
PMCID: PMC309467  PMID: 7684833

Abstract

A new photocrosslinking CTP analog that functioned as a substrate during transcription was synthesized and used to photoaffinity label E. coli and bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerases. This analog, 5-((4-azidophenacyl)thio) cytidine-5'-triphosphate (5-APAS-CTP) contains an aryl azide group approximately 10 A from the nucleotide base and specifically replaced CTP during synthesis of RNA by both polymerases. Analog was placed at the 3' end or internally within RNA. Both polymerases inefficiently incorporated two 5-APAS-CMP molecules sequentially, as was found for the related 5-APAS-UMP. Analog was placed at the 3' end of RNA in transcription complexes paused at the site of Q-modification of E. coli RNA polymerase, downstream of the lambda PR' promoter (+16), a pause that requires specific DNA sequences but no apparent RNA hairpin. Crosslinking was examined in the presence and absence of the NusA protein, which enhances the transcriptional pause at this site and is required for Q modification of the polymerase. Crosslinking of the 3' end of the RNA to NusA was not observed, consistent with our earlier results involving a NusA-enhanced pause site downstream from an RNA hairpin.

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