Georgiy A. Belogurov
Ph.D., Docent

M.S.- Moscow State University, School of Chemistry, Russia, 1997

Ph.D. - University of Turku, Dept. of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Finland, 2005

Postdoc - Ohio State Univesity, Dept. of Microbiology, USA, 2006-2009

Principal investigator - University of Turku, Dept. of Biochemistry, Finland, 2009-

Research interests

Transcription, nucleic acids enzymes, enzyme kinetics, protein chemistry, phylogenomics, membrane proteins
Address

University of Turku, Dept. of Biochemistry, Vatselankatu 2, Turku FIN-20014, Finland. E-mail: gebelo(at)utu.fi tel.: +358-2-333-6855

Affiliations

Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine
National Graduate School in Informational and Structural Biology
Systems Biology Research Program
Research

MULTISUBUNIT RNA POLYMERASE:
Molecular Mechanisms in Transcription (RNAP group homepage)
Publications

NandyMazumdar M., Nedialkov Y., Svetlov D., Sevostyanova A., Belogurov G.A., Artsimovitch I. (2016) RNA polymerase gate loop guides the nontemplate DNA strand in transcription complexes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113(52):14994-14999 [PubMed]

Turtola M., Belogurov G.A., (2016) NusG inhibits RNA polymerase backtracking by stabilizing the minimal transcription bubble. eLife 5. pii: e18096. [eLife] [PubMed]

Maddalena L.L., Niederholtmeyer H., Turtola M., Swank Z.N., Belogurov G.A., Maerkl S.J. (2016) GreA and GreB Enhance Expression of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase Promoters in a Reconstituted Transcription-Translation System. ACS Synth. Biol. 5(9):929-35. [PubMed]

Esyunina D., Turtola M., Pupov D., Bass I., Klimašauskas S., Belogurov G., Kulbachinskiy A. (2016) Lineage-specific variations in the trigger loop modulate RNA proofreading by bacterial RNA polymerases. Nucleic Acids Res. 44(3):1298-308.[PubMed]

Belogurov G.A., Artsimovitch I. (2015) Regulation of Transcript Elongation. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 69. doi: 10.1146/annurev-micro-091014-104047 [Annu. Rev. Microbiol.] [PubMed]

Artsimovitch I., Belogurov G.A. (2015) Creative Math of RNA Polymerase III Termination: Sense Plus Antisense Makes More Sense. Mol. Cell 58(6):974-6. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.06.003. [PubMed] [Mol. Cell]

Malinen A.M., Turtola M., Belogurov G.A. (2015) Monitoring translocation of multisubunit RNA polymerase along the DNA with fluorescent base analogues. Methods Mol. Biol. 1276:31-51. doi 10.1007/978-1-4939-2392-2_3. [PubMed] [Springer]

Malinen A.M., NandyMazumdar M., Turtola M., Malmi H., Grocholski T., Artsimovitch I., Belogurov G.A. (2014) CBR antimicrobials alter coupling between the bridge helix and the ß subunit in RNA polymerase. Nat. Commun. 5:3408 doi: 10.1038/ncomms4408 [PubMed] [NCOMMS]

Kallio P., Patrikainen P., Belogurov G.A., Mäntsälä P., Yang K., Niemi J., Metsä-Ketelä M. (2013) Tracing the evolution of angucyclinone monooxygenases: structural determinants for C-12b hydroxylation and substrate inhibition in PgaE. Biochemistry 52(26):4507-16. [PubMed]

Malinen A.M., Turtola M., Parthiban M., Vainonen L., Johnson M.S., Belogurov G.A. (2012) Active site opening and closure control translocation of multisubunit RNA polymerase. Nucleic Acids Res. 40(15): 7442-51. [PubMed] [NAR]

Sevostyanova A., Belogurov G.A., Mooney R.A., Landick R., Artsimovitch I. (2011) The ß subunit gate loop is required for RNA polymerase modification by RfaH and NusG. Mol. Cell 43(2): 253-262 [PubMed]

Luoto H.H., Belogurov G.A., Baykov A.A., Lahti R., Malinen A.M. (2011) Na+-translocating membrane pyrophosphatases are widespread in the microbial world and evolutionarily precede H+-translocating pyrophosphatases. J. Biol. Chem. 286(24): 21633-42 [PubMed]

Belogurov G.A., Sevostyanova A., Svetlov V., Artsimovitch I. (2010). Functional regions of the N-terminal domain of the antiterminator RfaH. Mol. Microbiol. 76 (2): 286-301 [PubMed]

Belogurov, G.A., Mooney, R.A. Svetlov, V., Landick, R., Artsimovitch, I. (2009) Functional specialization of transcription elongation factors. EMBO J. 28(2):112-22 [PubMed]

Belogurov, G.A., Vassylyeva, M.N. Sevostyanova, A., Xiang, A., Lira, R., Webber, S., Klyuyev, S., Nudler, E., Artsimovitch, I., Vassylyev, D.G. (2009) Transcription inactivation through local refolding of the RNA polymerase structure. Nature 457(7227): 332-335 [PubMed]

Svetlov V., Belogurov G.A., Shabrova E., Vassylyev D.G., Artsimovitch I. (2007) Allosteric control of the RNA polymerase by the elongation factor RfaH. Nucleic Acids Res. 35(17):5694-705 [PubMed]

Jämsen J., Tuominen H., Salminen A., Belogurov G.A., Magretova N.N., Baykov A.A., Lahti R. (2007) A CBS domain-containing pyrophosphatase of Moorella thermoacetica is regulated by adenine nucleotides. Biochem J. 408(3):327-33 [PubMed]

Belogurov G.A., Vassylyeva M.N., Svetlov V., Klyuyev S., Grishin N.V., Vassylyev D.G., Artsimovitch I. (2007) Structural basis for converting a general transcription factor into an operon-specific virulence regulator. Mol Cell. 26(1):117-29 [PubMed]

Malinen A. M., Belogurov G. A., Baykov A. A., Lahti R. (2007) Na+-pyrophosphatase: a novel primary sodium pump. Biochemistry 46(30):8872-8 [PubMed]

Belogurov, G. A., Malinen, A. M., Turkina, M. V., Jalonen, U., Rytkönen, K., Baykov, A. A., Lahti, R. (2005) Membrane-bound pyrophosphatase of Thermotoga maritima requires sodium for activity. Biochemistry 44(6): 2088-2096 [PubMed]

Malinen, A. M., Belogurov, G. A., Salminen, M., Baykov, A. A. and Lahti, R. (2004) Elucidating the role of conserved glutamates in H+-pyrophosphatase of Rhodospirillum rubrum. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 26811-26816 [PubMed]

Belogurov, G. A. and Lahti, R. (2002) A Lysine substitute for K+: A460K mutation eliminates K+-dependence in H+-pyrophosphatase of Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 49651-49654 [PubMed]

Belogurov, G. A., Turkina, M. V., Penttinen, A., Huopalahti, S., Baykov, A. A. and Lahti, R. (2002) H+-Pyrophosphatase of Rhodospirillum rubrum: High-yield expression in Escherichia coli and identification of the Cys residues responsible for inactivation by mersalyl. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 22209-22214 [PubMed]

Belogurov G. A., Fabrichniy I. P., Pohjanjoki P., Kasho V. N., Lehtihuhta E., Turkina M. V., Cooperman B. S., Goldman A., Baykov A.A., Lahti R. (2000) Catalytically important ionizations along the reaction pathway of yeast pyrophosphatase. Biochemistry 39(45):13931-13938 [PubMed]

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