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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1998

Structural basis of an embryonically lethal single Ala --> Thr mutation in the vnd/NK-2 homeodomain.

B Xiang, S Weiler, M Nirenberg, J A Ferretti

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  3. Identification and analysis of vnd/NK-2 homeodomain binding sites in genomic DNA.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2005
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  4. Mapping activation and repression domains of the vnd/NK-2 homeodomain protein.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2004
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

B XiangLaboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
S Weiler
M Nirenberg
J A Ferretti
National Institutes of Health · USNational Heart Lung and Blood Institute · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The structural and DNA binding behavior is described for an analog of the vnd/NK-2 homeodomain, which contains a single amino acid residue alanine to threonine replacement in position 35 of the homeodomain. Multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance, circular dichroism, and electrophoretic gel retardation assays were carried out on recombinant 80-aa residue proteins that encompass the wild-type and mutant homeodomains. The mutant A35T vnd/NK-2 homeodomain is unable to adopt a folded conformation free in solution at temperatures down to -5 degreesC in contrast to the behavior of the corresponding wild-type vnd/NK-2 homeodomain, which is folded into a functional three-dimensional structure below 25 degreesC. The A35T vnd/NK-2 binds specifically to the vnd/NK-2 target DNA sequence, but with an affinity that is 50-fold lower than that of the wild-type homeodomain. Although the three-dimensional structure of the mutant A35T vnd/NK-2 in the DNA bound state shows characteristic helix-turn-helix behavior similar to that of the wild-type homeodomain, a notable structural deviation in the mutant A35T analog is observed for the amide proton of leucine-40. The wild-type homeodomain forms an unusual i,i-5 hydrogen bond with the backbone amide oxygen of residue 35. In the A35T mutant this amide proton resonance is shifted upfield by 1.27 ppm relative to the resonance frequency for the wild-type analog, thereby indicating a significant alteration of this i,i-5 hydrogen bond.

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MutationAmino Acid SequenceAmino Acid SubstitutionAnimalsCircular DichroismDNADrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsGenes, LethalHomeodomain ProteinsMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedProtein ConformationProtein FoldingTemperatureDNADrosophila ProteinsHomeodomain ProteinsTranscription Factorsvnd protein, Drosophila

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PMID9636163
PMCPMC22634
OpenAlexW2049796509

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