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Crystal structure of the RK2 plasmid encoded co-complex of the C-terminally truncated transcriptional repressor protein KorB complexed with the partner repressor protein KorA bound to OA-DNA

spinqualitylabelsall models 8qa9, resolution 2.70Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 8qa9 is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.7Å Ligands: SO4 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function KORB2_ECOLX In conjunction with KorA, inhibits the transcription of the kilA, trfA and korAB operons. Is also involved in the negative control of the kilB operon. Publication Abstract from PubMed Examples of long-range gene regulation in bacteria are rare and generally thought to involve DNA looping. Here, using a combination of biophysical approaches including X-ray crystallography and single-molecule analysis for the KorB-KorA system in Escherichia coli, we show that long-range gene silencing on the plasmid RK2, a source of multi-drug resistance across diverse Gram-negative bacteria, is achieved cooperatively by a DNA-sliding clamp, KorB, and a clamp-locking protein, KorA. We show that KorB is a CTPase clamp that can entrap and slide along DNA to reach distal target promoters up to 1.5 kb away. We resolved the tripartite crystal structure of a KorB-KorA-DNA co-complex, revealing that KorA latches KorB into a closed clamp state. DNA-bound KorA thus stimulates repression by stalling KorB sliding at target promoters to occlude RNA polymerase holoenzymes. Together, our findings explain the mechanistic basis for KorB role switching from a DNA-sliding clamp to a co-repressor and provide an alternative mechanism for long-range regulation of gene expression in bacteria. KorB switching from DNA-sliding clamp to repressor mediates long-range gene silencing in a multi-drug resistance plasmid.,McLean TC, Balaguer-Perez F, Chandanani J, Thomas CM, Aicart-Ramos C, Burick S, Olinares PDB, Gobbato G, Mundy JEA, Chait BT, Lawson DM, Darst SA, Campbell EA, Moreno-Herrero F, Le TBK Nat Microbiol. 2025 Feb;10(2):448-467. doi: 10.1038/s41564-024-01915-3. Epub 2025 , Jan 23. PMID:39849085 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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