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Ser 54, Ser 57, and His 58 are the primary sites of <scene name='69/694220/2kjb_colored/3'>DNA interaction</scene> in Czr A <ref name="critical"/>. These residues are likely to interact with the 5'-TGAA sequence found in the half-site of the DNA, where the alpha 4 helices (green) <scene name='69/694219/Czra_with_dna/2'>form an interaction with DNA</scene> (figure 3). Mutations to the main DNA interaction sites Ser 54, Ser 57, and His 58 resulted in binding similar to the <scene name='69/694220/Dna_residues_when_inhibited/2'>inhibited Zinc bound state</scene>, suggesting that these residues are essential to binding DNA. Additionally, Val 42 and Gln 53 (lime green) are involved in the <scene name='69/694220/Val_42_and_gln_53/1'>DNA binding pocket</scene>. This conclusion was experimentally determined by mutagenesis of the Gln and Val residues with an Ala and measuring the mutant DNA binding capacity. The DNA bound state of Czr A was tested by using the known critical residues for DNA interactions <ref name="critical"/>. <scene name='69/694220/Dna_binding_residues/2'>Critical DNA binding residues</scene> Gln 53, Val 42 (aqua), Ser 54, Ser 57, and His 58 (lime) were individually mutated to Ala, and kinetic experiments were performed. Compared to wild type Czr A, mutating Gln53 and V42 residues resulted in an 11-fold and 160-fold decrease in K_a, respectively. While the conformational change that occurs from the Zinc to DNA bound state of Czr A is small,the alpha 4 helices (shown in green in Figure 2) are slightly shifted. The loss of DNA binding in the mutagenesis experiements in combination with the lack of any other major physical changes between these two states further suggests that the alpha 4 helices are the location of DNA binding in Czr A. Experimental data can be found in table 1 from this same article.