Tail-tape-fused virion and non-virion RNA polymerases of a thermophilic virus with an extremely long tail.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Jan 2024
Historique:
received: 15 05 2023
accepted: 19 12 2023
medline: 6 1 2024
pubmed: 6 1 2024
entrez: 5 1 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Thermus thermophilus bacteriophage P23-45 encodes a giant 5,002-residue tail tape measure protein (TMP) that defines the length of its extraordinarily long tail. Here, we show that the N-terminal portion of P23-45 TMP is an unusual RNA polymerase (RNAP) homologous to cellular RNAPs. The TMP-fused virion RNAP transcribes pre-early phage genes, including a gene that encodes another, non-virion RNAP, that transcribes early and some middle phage genes. We report the crystal structures of both P23-45 RNAPs. The non-virion RNAP has a crab-claw-like architecture. By contrast, the virion RNAP adopts a unique flat structure without a clamp. Structure and sequence comparisons of the P23-45 RNAPs with other RNAPs suggest that, despite the extensive functional differences, the two P23-45 RNAPs originate from an ancient gene duplication in an ancestral phage. Our findings demonstrate striking adaptability of RNAPs that can be attained within a single virus species.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38182597
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44630-z
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-44630-z
doi:

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Journal Article

Langues

eng

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317

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Anastasiia Chaban (A)

Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 121205, Russia.
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, 69117, Germany.

Leonid Minakhin (L)

Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 19107, USA.

Ekaterina Goldobina (E)

Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 121205, Russia.
APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, T12 YT20, Ireland.

Brain Bae (B)

Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

Yue Hao (Y)

Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.

Sergei Borukhov (S)

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine at Stratford, Stratford, NJ, 08084-1489, USA.

Leena Putzeys (L)

Department of Biosystems, Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium.

Maarten Boon (M)

Department of Biosystems, Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium.

Florian Kabinger (F)

Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.

Rob Lavigne (R)

Department of Biosystems, Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Leuven, 3001, Belgium.

Kira S Makarova (KS)

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.

Eugene V Koonin (EV)

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.

Satish K Nair (SK)

Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA. snair@illinois.edu.

Shunsuke Tagami (S)

RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan. shunsuke.tagami@riken.jp.

Konstantin Severinov (K)

Waksman Institute for Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA. severik@waksman.rutgers.edu.
Institute of Molecular Genetics National Kurchatov Center, Moscow, 123182, Russia. severik@waksman.rutgers.edu.

Maria L Sokolova (ML)

Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 121205, Russia. maria.sokolova@mpinat.mpg.de.
Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, 37077, Germany. maria.sokolova@mpinat.mpg.de.

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