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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2013

Structural analysis of DNA-protein complexes regulating the restriction-modification system Esp1396I.

Richard N A Martin, John E McGeehan, Neil J Ball, Simon D Streeter, Sarah-Jane Thresh, G G Kneale

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2013. 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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6 authors.

Richard N A MartinInstitute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, University of Portsmouth, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DY, England.
John E McGeehan
Neil J Ball
Simon D Streeter
Sarah-Jane Thresh
G G Kneale

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/E000878/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H00680X/1
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Abstract

The controller protein of the type II restriction-modification (RM) system Esp1396I binds to three distinct DNA operator sequences upstream of the methyltransferase and endonuclease genes in order to regulate their expression. Previous biophysical and crystallographic studies have shown molecular details of how the controller protein binds to the operator sites with very different affinities. Here, two protein-DNA co-crystal structures containing portions of unbound DNA from native operator sites are reported. The DNA in both complexes shows significant distortion in the region between the conserved symmetric sequences, similar to that of a DNA duplex when bound by the controller protein (C-protein), indicating that the naked DNA has an intrinsic tendency to bend when not bound to the C-protein. Moreover, the width of the major groove of the DNA adjacent to a bound C-protein dimer is observed to be significantly increased, supporting the idea that this DNA distortion contributes to the substantial cooperativity found when a second C-protein dimer binds to the operator to form the tetrameric repression complex.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialBacterial ProteinsBase SequenceBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Restriction-Modification EnzymesEscherichia coliModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationOperator Regions, GeneticProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationRecombinant ProteinsBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA Restriction-Modification EnzymesRecombinant ProteinsDNA-binding proteinsDNA distortionhelix–turn–helix motiftranscriptional regulation

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PMID23989141
PMCPMC3758141

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