5zjs

Structure of AbdB/Exd complex bound to a 'Blue14' DNA sequence

spinqualitylabelsall models 5zjs, resolution 2.90Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 5zjs is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Drosophila melanogaster. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.896Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function ABDB_DROME Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis. Publication Abstract from PubMed Transcription factors bind to their binding sites over a wide range of affinities, yet how differences in affinity are encoded in DNA sequences is not well understood. Here, we report X-ray crystal structures of four heterodimers of the Hox protein AbdominalB bound with its cofactor Extradenticle to four target DNA molecules that differ in affinity by up to approximately 20-fold. Remarkably, despite large differences in affinity, the overall structures are very similar in all four complexes. In contrast, the predicted shapes of the DNA binding sites (i.e., the intrinsic DNA shape) in the absence of bound protein are strikingly different from each other and correlate with affinity: binding sites that must change conformations upon protein binding have lower affinities than binding sites that have more optimal conformations prior to binding. Together, these observations suggest that intrinsic differences in DNA shape provide a robust mechanism for modulating affinity without affecting other protein-DNA interactions. Intrinsic DNA Shape Accounts for Affinity Differences between Hox-Cofactor Binding Sites.,Zeiske T, Baburajendran N, Kaczynska A, Brasch J, Palmer AG 3rd, Shapiro L, Honig B, Mann RS Cell Rep. 2018 Aug 28;24(9):2221-2230. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.07.100. PMID:30157419 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Hox protein

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