4lhf

Crystal structure of a DNA binding protein from phage P2

spinqualitylabelsall models 4lhf, resolution 2.40Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4lhf is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia virus P2. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function VCOX_BPP2 Repressor of the Pc promoter which controls gene C, which codes for the immunity repressor, and int, whose product promotes the site-specific recombination over att. Publication Abstract from PubMed The Cox protein from bacteriophage P2 is a small multifunctional DNA-binding protein. It is involved in site-specific recombination leading to P2 prophage excision and functions as a transcriptional repressor of the P2 Pc promoter. Furthermore, it transcriptionally activates the unrelated, defective prophage P4 that depends on phage P2 late gene products for lytic growth. In this article, we have investigated the structural determinants to understand how P2 Cox performs these different functions. We have solved the structure of P2 Cox to 2.4 A resolution. Interestingly, P2 Cox crystallized in a continuous oligomeric spiral with its DNA-binding helix and wing positioned outwards. The extended C-terminal part of P2 Cox is largely responsible for the oligomerization in the structure. The spacing between the repeating DNA-binding elements along the helical P2 Cox filament is consistent with DNA binding along the filament. Functional analyses of alanine mutants in P2 Cox argue for the importance of key residues for protein function. We here present the first structure from the Cox protein family and, together with previous biochemical observations, propose that P2 Cox achieves its various functions by specific binding of DNA while wrapping the DNA around its helical oligomer. Structural insight into DNA binding and oligomerization of the multifunctional Cox protein of bacteriophage P2.,Berntsson RP, Odegrip R, Sehlen W, Skaar K, Svensson LM, Massad T, Hogbom M, Haggard-Ljungquist E, Stenmark P Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Feb 1;42(4):2725-35. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkt1119. Epub 2013 , Nov 19. PMID:24259428 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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