Vladimir Svetlov

Allosteric control of the RNA polymerase by the elongation factor RfaH (2007)

Svetlov, Vladimir, Belogurov, Georgiy A., Shabrova, Elena, Vassylyev, Dmitry G., Artsimovitch, Irina

Efficient transcription of long polycistronic operons in bacteria frequently relies on accessory proteins but their molecular mechanisms remain obscure. RfaH is a cellular elongation factor that acts...

RNA Polymerases from Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli Differ in Recognition of Regulatory Signals In Vitro

Artsimovitch, Irina, Svetlov, Vladimir, Anthony, Larry, Burgess, Richard R., Landick, Robert

Adaptation of bacterial cells to diverse habitats relies on the ability of RNA polymerase to respond to various regulatory signals. Some of these signals are conserved throughout evolution, whereas...

Highly Divergent RfaH Orthologs from Pathogenic Proteobacteria Can Substitute for Escherichia coli RfaH both In Vivo and In Vitro

Carter, Heather D., Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina

The transcriptional enhancer protein RfaH positively regulates production of virulence factors in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium via a cis element, ops. Genes coding for...

Regulation through the RNA Polymerase Secondary Channel: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL VARIABILITY OF THE COILED-COIL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS*S

Symersky, Jindrich, Perederina, Anna, Vassylyeva, Marina N., Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyev, Dmitry G.

Gre factors enhance the intrinsic endonucleolytic activity of RNA polymerase to rescue arrested transcription complexes and are thought to confer the high fidelity and processivity of RNA synthesis....

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and initial crystallographic analysis of transcription elongation factors GreB from Escherichia coli and Gfh1 from Thermus thermophilus

Perederina, Anna A., Vassylyeva, Marina N., Berezin, Igor A., Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyev, Dmitry G.

The Escherichia coli gene encoding the transcription cleavage factor GreB and the Thermus thermophilus gene encoding the anti-GreA transcription factor Gfh1 were cloned and expressed and the purified...

Allosteric Modulation of the RNA Polymerase Catalytic Reaction Is an Essential Component of Transcription Control by Rifamycins

Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyeva, Marina N., Svetlov, Dmitri, Svetlov, Vladimir, Perederina, Anna, Igarashi, Noriyuki, ...

Rifamycins, the clinically important antibiotics, target bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP). A proposed mechanism in which rifamycins sterically block the extension of nascent RNA beyond three...

RNA Polymerases from Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli Differ in Recognition of Regulatory Signals In Vitro

Artsimovitch, Irina, Svetlov, Vladimir, Anthony, Larry, Burgess, Richard R., Landick, Robert

Adaptation of bacterial cells to diverse habitats relies on the ability of RNA polymerase to respond to various regulatory signals. Some of these signals are conserved throughout evolution, whereas...

Highly Divergent RfaH Orthologs from Pathogenic Proteobacteria Can Substitute for Escherichia coli RfaH both In Vivo and In Vitro

Carter, Heather D., Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina

The transcriptional enhancer protein RfaH positively regulates production of virulence factors in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium via a cis element, ops. Genes coding for...

Allosteric control of the RNA polymerase by the elongation factor RfaH

Svetlov, Vladimir, Belogurov, Georgiy A., Shabrova, Elena, Vassylyev, Dmitry G., Artsimovitch, Irina

Efficient transcription of long polycistronic operons in bacteria frequently relies on accessory proteins but their molecular mechanisms remain obscure. RfaH is a cellular elongation factor that acts...

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and initial crystallographic analysis of transcription elongation factors GreB from Escherichia coli and Gfh1 from Thermus thermophilus

Perederina, Anna A., Vassylyeva, Marina N., Berezin, Igor A., Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyev, Dmitry G.

The GreB transcription cleavage factor of E. coli and the Gfh1 transcription elongation factor of T. thermophilus were cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized. Complete diffraction data sets...

The elongation factor RfaH and the initiation factor σ bind to the same site on the transcription elongation complex

Sevostyanova, Anastasiya, Svetlov, Vladimir, Vassylyev, Dmitry G., Artsimovitch, Irina

RNA polymerase is a target for numerous regulatory events in all living cells. Recent studies identified a few “hot spots” on the surface of bacterial RNA polymerase that mediate its interactions...

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the transcriptional regulator RfaH from Escherichia coli and its complex with ops DNA

Vassylyeva, Marina N., Svetlov, Vladimir, Klyuyev, Sergiy, Devedjiev, Yancho D., Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyev, Dmitry G.

The E. coli transcriptional regulator RfaH was cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized and the complex of RfaH with its target DNA oligonucleotide was cocrystallized. Complete diffraction data...

The carboxy-terminal coiled-coil of the RNA polymerase β′-subunit is the main binding site for Gre factors

Vassylyeva, Marina N, Svetlov, Vladimir, Dearborn, Altaira D, Klyuyev, Sergiy, Artsimovitch, Irina, Vassylyev, Dmitry G

Bacterial Gre transcript cleavage factors stimulate the intrinsic endonucleolytic activity of RNA polymerase (RNAP) to rescue stalled transcription complexes. They bind to RNAP and extend their...

Functional specialization of transcription elongation factors

Belogurov, Georgiy A, Mooney, Rachel A, Svetlov, Vladimir, Landick, Robert, Artsimovitch, Irina

Elongation factors NusG and RfaH evolved from a common ancestor and utilize the same binding site on RNA polymerase (RNAP) to modulate transcription. However, although NusG associates with RNAP...

Functional regions of the N-terminal domain of the antiterminator RfaH

Belogurov, Georgiy A, Sevostyanova, Anastasia, Svetlov, Vladimir, Artsimovitch, Irina

RfaH is a bacterial elongation factor that increases expression of distal genes in several long, horizontally acquired operons. RfaH is recruited to the transcription complex during RNA chain...