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ArticleFEBS letters2011

Tyrosine partners coordinate DNA nicking by the Salmonella typhimurium plasmid pCU1 relaxase enzyme.

Rebekah P Nash, Franklin C Niblock, Matthew R Redinbo

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Article in FEBS letters, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Molecular basis of antibiotic multiresistance transfer in Staphylococcus aureus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  5. Assembly and mechanisms of bacterial type IV secretion machines.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rebekah P NashDepartment of Chemistry, Caudill and Kenan Laboratories, CB 3290, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290, USA. rebekah_potts@med.unc.edu
Franklin C Niblock
Matthew R Redinbo
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008719 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DARVILLE, TONI, DESHMUKH, MOHANISH P · 1999 to 2023
$15.1M
Structure and Inhibition of the Conjugative DNA Relaxase-HelicaseR01AI078924 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI REDINBO, MATTHEW R · 2008 to 2012
$1.9M
Antiobic Resistance and Virulence Gene Transfer in Environmental PathogensF30ES016488 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI NASH, REBEKAH POTTS · 2008 to 2012
$144k
NIAID NIH HHS AI078924NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI078924NIEHS NIH HHS ES016488NIEHS NIH HHS F30 ES016488NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008719NIGMS NIH HHS T32GM008719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conjugative plasmid transfer results in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors between bacterial cells. Plasmid transfer is dependent upon the DNA nicking activity of a plasmid-encoded relaxase enzyme. Tyrosine residues within the relaxase cleave the DNA plasmid nic site in a highly sequence-specific manner. The conjugative resistance plasmid pCU1 encodes a relaxase with four tyrosine residues surrounding its active site (Y18,19,26,27). We use activity assays to demonstrate that the pCU1 relaxase preferentially uses Y26 or a combination of Y18 + 19 to nick DNA at wild type levels, and that an adjacent aspartic acid deprotonates these tyrosines to activate them for attack. Our findings illustrate the unique modifications that the pCU1 relaxase has introduced into the traditional relaxase-mediated DNA nicking mechanism.

Indexed as

DNA Breaks, Single-StrandedAmino Acid SequenceAspartic AcidBase SequenceBiocatalysisCatalytic DomainDNA NucleotidyltransferasesModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutationPlasmidsProtein Structure, TertiarySalmonella typhimuriumSequence Homology, Amino AcidTyrosineAspartic AcidDNA NucleotidyltransferasesDNA relaxaseTyrosine

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PMID21439279
PMCPMC3086049
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