1DVO
THE X-RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF FINO, A REPRESSOR OF BACTERIAL CONJUGATION
Summary for 1DVO
Entry DOI | 10.2210/pdb1dvo/pdb |
Descriptor | FERTILITY INHIBITION PROTEIN O (2 entities in total) |
Functional Keywords | repressor, bacterial conjugation, transcription |
Biological source | Escherichia coli |
Total number of polymer chains | 1 |
Total formula weight | 17374.12 |
Authors | Ghetu, A.F.,Gubbins, M.J.,Frost, L.S.,Glover, J.N.M. (deposition date: 2000-01-21, release date: 2000-07-19, Last modification date: 2024-02-07) |
Primary citation | Ghetu, A.F.,Gubbins, M.J.,Frost, L.S.,Glover, J.N. Crystal structure of the bacterial conjugation repressor finO. Nat.Struct.Biol., 7:565-569, 2000 Cited by PubMed Abstract: The conjugative transfer of F-like plasmids is repressed by FinO, an RNA binding protein. FinO interacts with the F-plasmid encoded traJ mRNA and its antisense RNA, FinP, stabilizing FinP against endonucleolytic degradation and facilitating sense-antisense RNA recognition. Here we present the 2.0 A resolution X-ray crystal structure of FinO, lacking its flexible N-terminal extension. FinO adopts a novel, elongated, largely helical conformation. An N-terminal region, previously shown to contact RNA, forms a positively charged alpha-helix (helix 1) that protrudes 45 A from the central core of FinO. A C-terminal region of FinO that is implicated in RNA interactions also extends out from the central body of the protein, adopting a helical conformation and packing against the base of the N-terminal helix. A highly positively charged patch on the surface of the FinO core may present another RNA binding surface. The results of an in vitro RNA duplexing assay demonstrate that the flexible N-terminal region of FinO plays a key role in FinP-traJ RNA recognition, and supports our proposal that this region and the N-terminus of helix 1 interact with and stabilize paired, complementary RNA loops in a kissing complex. PubMed: 10876242DOI: 10.1038/76790 PDB entries with the same primary citation |
Experimental method | X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2 Å) |
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