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==TetR in complex with the TetR-binding RNA-aptamer K2==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[6sy6]] is a 3 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=6SY6 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6SY6 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2.9&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6sy6 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=6sy6 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/6sy6 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=6sy6 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/6sy6 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=6sy6 ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/TETR2_ECOLX TETR2_ECOLX] TetR is the repressor of the tetracycline resistance element; its N-terminal region forms a helix-turn-helix structure and binds DNA. Binding of tetracycline to TetR reduces the repressor affinity for the tetracycline resistance gene (tetA) promoter operator sites.
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
RNAs play major roles in the regulation of gene expression. Hence, designer RNA molecules are increasingly explored as regulatory switches in synthetic biology. Among these, the TetR-binding RNA aptamer was selected by its ability to compete with operator DNA for binding to the bacterial repressor TetR. A fortuitous finding was that induction of TetR by tetracycline abolishes both RNA aptamer and operator DNA binding in TetR. This enabled numerous applications exploiting both the specificity of the RNA aptamer and the efficient gene repressor properties of TetR. Here, we present the crystal structure of the TetR-RNA aptamer complex at 2.7 A resolution together with a comprehensive characterization of the TetR-RNA aptamer versus TetR-operator DNA interaction using site-directed mutagenesis, size exclusion chromatography, electrophoretic mobility shift assays and isothermal titration calorimetry. The fold of the RNA aptamer bears no resemblance to regular B-DNA, and neither does the thermodynamic characterization of the complex formation reaction. Nevertheless, the functional aptamer-binding epitope of TetR is fully contained within its DNA-binding epitope. In the RNA aptamer complex, TetR adopts the well-characterized DNA-binding-competent conformation of TetR, thus revealing how the synthetic TetR-binding aptamer strikes the chords of the bimodal allosteric behaviour of TetR to function as a synthetic regulator.

The complex formed between a synthetic RNA aptamer and the transcription repressor TetR is a structural and functional twin of the operator DNA-TetR regulator complex.,Grau FC, Jaeger J, Groher F, Suess B, Muller YA Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Feb 13. pii: 5735209. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa083. PMID:32052019<ref>PMID:32052019</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Tetracycline repressor protein 3D structures|Tetracycline repressor protein 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Escherichia coli]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Grau FC]]
[[Category: Groher F]]
[[Category: Jaeger J]]
[[Category: Muller YA]]
[[Category: Suess B]]