1un6

THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A ZINC FINGER - RNA COMPLEX REVEALS TWO MODES OF MOLECULAR RECOGNITION

spinqualitylabelsall models 1un6, resolution 3.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1un6 is a 5 chain structure with sequence from African clawed frog and Xenopus laevis. The March 2007 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Zinc Fingers by David S. Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2007_3. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: MG, ZN Related: 1tf3, 1tf6 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Zinc-finger proteins of the classical Cys2His2 type are the most frequently used class of transcription factor and account for about 3% of genes in the human genome. The zinc-finger motif was discovered during biochemical studies on the transcription factor TFIIIA, which regulates the 5S ribosomal RNA genes of Xenopus laevis. Zinc-fingers mostly interact with DNA, but TFIIIA binds not only specifically to the promoter DNA, but also to 5S RNA itself. Increasing evidence indicates that zinc-fingers are more widely used to recognize RNA. There have been numerous structural studies on DNA binding, but none on RNA binding by zinc-finger proteins. Here we report the crystal structure of a three-finger complex with 61 bases of RNA, derived from the central regions of the complete nine-finger TFIIIA-5S RNA complex. The structure reveals two modes of zinc-finger binding, both of which differ from that in common use for DNA: first, the zinc-fingers interact with the backbone of a double helix; and second, the zinc-fingers specifically recognize individual bases positioned for access in otherwise intricately folded 'loop' regions of the RNA. Crystal structure of a zinc-finger-RNA complex reveals two modes of molecular recognition.,Lu D, Searles MA, Klug A Nature. 2003 Nov 6;426(6962):96-100. PMID:14603324 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Zinc Fingers

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