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Title: | Conformational plasticity of RepB, the replication initiator protein of promiscuous streptococcal plasmid pMV158 |
Author: | Boer, Roeland Ruiz Masó, José Angel Petoukhov, Maxim Machón Sobrado, Cristina Svergun, Dmitri Orozco López, Modesto Solar, Gloria Del Coll, Miquel |
Keywords: | Duplicació de l'ADN Models moleculars Radiocristal·lografia DNA replication Molecular models X-ray crystallography |
Issue Date: | 15-Feb-2016 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Abstract: | DNA replication initiation is a vital and tightly regulated step in all replicons and requires an initiator factor that specifically recognizes the DNA replication origin and starts replication. RepB from the promiscuous streptococcal plasmid pMV158 is a hexameric ring protein evolutionary related to viral initiators. Here we explore the conformational plasticity of the RepB hexamer by i) SAXS, ii) sedimentation experiments, iii) molecular simulations and iv) X-ray crystallography. Combining these techniques, we derive an estimate of the conformational ensemble in solution showing that the C-terminal oligomerisation domains of the protein form a rigid cylindrical scaffold to which the N-terminal DNA-binding/catalytic domains are attached as highly flexible appendages, featuring multiple orientations. In addition, we show that the hinge region connecting both domains plays a pivotal role in the observed plasticity. Sequence comparisons and a literature survey show that this hinge region could exists in other initiators, suggesting that it is a common, crucial structural element for DNA binding and manipulation. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20915 |
It is part of: | Scientific Reports, 2016, vol. 6, p. 20915 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/114049 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20915 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona)) |
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