id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-103892-v6gkubd4 Mäkinen, Janne J. The mechanism of the nucleo-sugar selection by multi-subunit RNA polymerases 2020-07-01 .txt text/plain 8442 418 51 Overall, these data demonstrated that the enhanced or diminished capabilities of the variant RNAPs to utilize 2'dGTP in the SNA assays reflected, in qualitative terms, their capabilities to utilize all four 2'dNTPs. The role of the β'Arg425 in selectively promoting the binding of NTPs was easy to explain because the β'Arg425 interacts with the 2'OH of the NTP analogues in several RNAP structures (Supplementary Table 5 , Fig. 1c, 4a, b) . We further hypothesized and demonstrated by in silico docking experiments that the 3'OH could move to within the hydrogen bond distance of the β'Arg425 if the deoxyribose moiety adopted a 2'-endo conformation (Supplementary Fig. 8 To test this hypothesis in crystallo, we solved the X-ray crystal structure of the initially transcribing complexes containing T. Overall, the comparative analysis of RNAP structures with CMPCPP, 2'dCTP and 3'dCTP suggested that the β'Arg425 inhibited the incorporation of 2'dNTPs by interacting with their 3'OH group and favoring the 2'-endo conformation of the deoxyribose moiety. ./cache/cord-103892-v6gkubd4.txt ./txt/cord-103892-v6gkubd4.txt