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The intergenic region of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GAL1-GAL10 divergent promoters has been circularized in vitro in different topological states. In defined conditions, purified homologous RNA polymerase II forms two stable complexes (half-life ∼-5 h) with this DNA in the presence of the four ribonucleotides, as determined by measurement (Gamper and Hearst 1983) of the amount and stability of the resulting unwinding. Each stable complex induces in the closed DNA domain a region of hypersensitivity to P1 endonuclease. The two induced hypersensitive regions are very similar: each maps on one promoter, spans over the 100 bp DNA sequence that encompasses the RNA Initiation Sites (RIS) and the TATA box, is composed by three subregions (one on the RIS, one proximal or overlapping the TATA sequence, one intermediate). We show that this promoter-localized interaction is supercoil-dependent.
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Camilloni, G., Seta, F.D., Ficca, A.G. et al. Purified Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase II interacts homologously with two different promoters as revealed by P1 endonuclease analysis. Molec. Gen. Genet. 204, 249–257 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425506
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