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. 1977 Apr;4(4):827–842. doi: 10.1093/nar/4.4.827

Transcription in vitro of bacteriophage lambda 4S RNA: studies on termination and rho protein.

B H Howard, B de Crombrugghe, M Rosenberg
PMCID: PMC342487  PMID: 325526

Abstract

When bacteriophage lambdapga18 DNA is transcribed in a purified in vitro system by E. coli RNA polymerase (nucleoside triphosphate: RNA nucleotidyl-transferase, EC 2.7.7.6), several major transcripts are synthesized. We have investigated transcriptional termination of one of these transcripts, the 4S, or "oop" RNA. Analysis by two-dimensional "fingerprinting" of T1 oligonucleotides reveals that transcription of the 4S RNA terminates at a specific site on the lambdapga18 DNA template, t-L with an efficiency of approximately 80%, i.e. 20% of transcripts are extended into larger RNAs. Addition of the E. coli protein rho to our transcription reactions has two effects: a) the efficiency of termination at the t-L site is increased to 100%; b) the number of 4S transcripts synthesized is increased by greater than 5-fold. Rho appears to stimulate 4S RNA synthesis by facilitating more rapid release of RNA polymerase from the t-L' termination site.

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