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Journal of Bacteriology, December 1998, p. 6187-6192, Vol. 180, No. 23
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Rpb4, a Subunit of RNA Polymerase II, Enables the Enzyme To Transcribe at Temperature Extremes In Vitro

Sonia Rosenheck and Mordechai Choder*

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

Received 9 July 1998/Accepted 28 September 1998

Rpb4 is a subunit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase II (Pol II). It associates with the polymerase preferentially in stationary phase and is essential for some stress responses. Using the promoter-independent initiation and chain elongation assay, we monitored Pol II enzymatic activity in cell extracts. We show here that Rpb4 is required for the polymerase activity at temperature extremes (10 and 35°C). In contrast, at moderate temperature (23°C) Pol II activity is independent of Rpb4. These results are consistent with the role previously attributed to Rpb4 as a subunit whose association with Pol II helps Pol II to transcribe during extreme temperatures. The enzymatic inactivation of Pol II lacking Rpb4 at the nonoptimal temperature was prevented by the addition of recombinant Rpb4 produced in Escherichia coli prior to the in vitro reaction assay. This finding suggests that modification of Rpb4 is not required for its functional association with the other Pol II subunits. Sucrose gradient and immunoprecipitation experiments demonstrated that Rpb4 is present in the cell in excess over the Pol II complex during all growth phases. Nevertheless, the rescue of Pol II activity at the nonoptimal temperature by Rpb4 is possible only when cell extracts are obtained from postlogarithmic cells, not from logarithmically growing cells. This result suggests that Pol II molecules should be modified in order to recruit Rpb4; the portion of the modified Pol II molecules is small during logarithmic phase and becomes predominant in stationary phase.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel. Phone: (972) 36409030. Fax: (972) 36409407. E-mail: lcchoder{at}ccsg.tau.ac.il.

Journal of Bacteriology, December 1998, p. 6187-6192, Vol. 180, No. 23
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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