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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A FDXN ELEMENT EXCISION CONTROLLING FACTOR PROTEIN (AVA_3312) FROM ANABAENA VARIABILIS AT 1.60 A RESOLUTION
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Structural highlights
FunctionPublication Abstract from PubMedNitrogen fixation is an important process that converts atmospheric gaseous nitrogen, a form plants cannot utilize, into ammonia that can be easily assimilated. Large serine recombinase XisF (fdxN element site-specific recombinase), together with controlling factors XisH and XisI, plays a critical role in the expression of nitrogen fixation genes of certain Anabaena and Nostoc species of cyanobacteria. All three proteins are required to excise the fdxN DNA element from the chromosome in differentiating heterocysts for the expression of nitrogen fixation related genes. We report the first crystal structures of XisH and XisI proteins, both adopting novel protein folds. Based on the analysis of their sequences and structures, we propose that XisH and XisI proteins function as endonucleases and recombination directionality factors (RDFs), respectively. (c) Proteins 2014;. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Site-specific recombination of nitrogen-fixation genes in cyanobacteria by XisF-XisH-XisI complex: Structures and models.,Hwang WC, Golden JW, Pascual J, Xu D, Cheltsov A, Godzik A Proteins. 2014 Sep 1. doi: 10.1002/prot.24679. PMID:25179344[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. References
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