Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24744237›Full record

ArticleNucleic acids research2014

Entrapment of DNA in an intersubunit tunnel system of a single-stranded DNA-binding protein.

Homa Ghalei, Holger von Moeller, Detlef Eppers, Daniel Sohmen, Daniel N Wilson, Bernhard Loll, Markus C Wahl

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nucleic acids research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Single-Stranded DNA-Binding Proteins in the Archaea.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Structure of Csd3 from Helicobacter pylori, a cell shape-determining metallopeptidase.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography · 2015
    Article
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Homa GhaleiFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Holger von MoellerFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Detlef EppersFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Daniel SohmenGene Center, Department of Biochemistry and Center of integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, Feodor-Lynenstr. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Daniel N WilsonGene Center, Department of Biochemistry and Center of integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), University of Munich, Feodor-Lynenstr. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany.
Bernhard LollFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Markus C WahlFreie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, AG Strukturbiochemie, Takustr. 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany mwahl@zedat.fu-berlin.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Instead of a classical single-stranded deoxyribonuleic acid (DNA)-binding protein (SSB), some hyperthermophilic crenarchaea harbor a non-canonical SSB termed ThermoDBP. Two related but poorly characterized groups of proteins, which share the ThermoDBP N-terminal DNA-binding domain, have a broader phylogenetic distribution and co-exist with ThermoDBPs and/or other SSBs. We have investigated the nucleic acid binding properties and crystal structures of representatives of these groups of ThermoDBP-related proteins (ThermoDBP-RPs) 1 and 2. ThermoDBP-RP 1 and 2 oligomerize by different mechanisms and only ThermoDBP-RP2 exhibits strong single-stranded DNA affinity in vitro. A crystal structure of ThermoDBP-RP2 in complex with DNA reveals how the NTD common to ThermoDBPs and ThermoDBP-RPs can contact the nucleic acid in a manner that allows a symmetric homotetrameric protein complex to bind single-stranded DNA molecules asymmetrically. While single-stranded DNA wraps around the surface or binds along channels of previously investigated SSBs, it traverses an internal, intersubunit tunnel system of a ThermoDBP-RP2 tetramer. Our results indicate that some archaea have acquired special SSBs for genome maintenance in particularly challenging environments.

Indexed as

Archaeal ProteinsBinding SitesDNADNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, Single-StrandedModels, MolecularProtein BindingPyrococcus furiosusRNAArchaeal ProteinsDNADNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, Single-StrandedRNA

Identifiers

PMID24744237
PMCPMC4041433

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.