8PN4
transcription factor BARHL2 bound to DNA sequences
Summary for 8PN4
| Entry DOI | 10.2210/pdb8pn4/pdb |
| Related | 8PM5 8PM7 8PMC 8PMF 8PMV 8PNA 8PNC |
| Descriptor | BarH-like 2 homeobox protein, DNA, ACETATE ION, ... (5 entities in total) |
| Functional Keywords | transcription, transcription factor, dna-binding, protein-dna complex, dna-binding domain |
| Biological source | Homo sapiens (human) More |
| Total number of polymer chains | 13 |
| Total formula weight | 66909.67 |
| Authors | Morgunova, E.,Yin, Y.,Popov, A.,Taipale, J. (deposition date: 2023-06-29, release date: 2024-07-10, Last modification date: 2025-01-15) |
| Primary citation | Morgunova, E.,Nagy, G.,Yin, Y.,Zhu, F.,Nayak, S.P.,Xiao, T.,Sokolov, I.,Popov, A.,Laughton, C.,Grubmuller, H.,Taipale, J. Interfacial water confers transcription factors with dinucleotide specificity. Nat.Struct.Mol.Biol., 2025 Cited by PubMed Abstract: Transcription factors (TFs) recognize specific bases within their DNA-binding motifs, with each base contributing nearly independently to total binding energy. However, the energetic contributions of particular dinucleotides can deviate strongly from the additive approximation, indicating that some TFs can specifically recognize DNA dinucleotides. Here we solved high-resolution (<1 Å) structures of MYF5 and BARHL2 bound to DNAs containing sets of dinucleotides that have different affinities to the proteins. The dinucleotides were recognized either enthalpically, by an extensive water network that connects the adjacent bases to the TF, or entropically, by a hydrophobic patch that maintained interfacial water mobility. This mechanism confers differential temperature sensitivity to the optimal sites, with implications for thermal regulation of gene expression. Our results uncover the enigma of how TFs can recognize more complex local features than mononucleotides and demonstrate that water-mediated recognition is important for predicting affinities of macromolecules from their sequence. PubMed: 39753777DOI: 10.1038/s41594-024-01449-6 PDB entries with the same primary citation |
| Experimental method | X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.6 Å) |
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