2ost

The structure of a bacterial homing endonuclease : I-Ssp6803I

spinqualitylabelsall models 2ost, resolution 3.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2ost is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Synechocystis sp.. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CA Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Publication Abstract from PubMed The homing endonuclease I-Ssp6803I causes the insertion of a group I intron into a bacterial tRNA gene-the only example of an invasive mobile intron within a bacterial genome. Using a computational fold prediction, mutagenic screen and crystal structure determination, we demonstrate that this protein is a tetrameric PD-(D/E)-XK endonuclease - a fold normally used to protect a bacterial genome from invading DNA through the action of restriction endonucleases. I-Ssp6803I uses its tetrameric assembly to promote recognition of a single long target site, whereas restriction endonuclease tetramers facilitate cooperative binding and cleavage of two short sites. The limited use of the PD-(D/E)-XK nucleases by mobile introns stands in contrast to their frequent use of LAGLIDADG and HNH endonucleases - which in turn, are rarely incorporated into restriction/modification systems. The restriction fold turns to the dark side: a bacterial homing endonuclease with a PD-(D/E)-XK motif.,Zhao L, Bonocora RP, Shub DA, Stoddard BL EMBO J. 2007 May 2;26(9):2432-42. Epub 2007 Apr 5. PMID:17410205 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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