Structure of N141A HincII with Cognate DNAStructure of N141A HincII with Cognate DNA

Structural highlights

3ebc is a 4 chain structure with sequence from "bacterium_influenzae"_lehmann_and_neumann_1896 "bacterium influenzae" lehmann and neumann 1896. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Ligands:
Gene:hincIIR ("Bacterium influenzae" Lehmann and Neumann 1896)
Activity:Type II site-specific deoxyribonuclease, with EC number 3.1.21.4
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

[T2C2_HAEIF] Recognizes the double-stranded sequence GTYRAC and cleaves after Y-3.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

Control of replication, transcription, recombination and repair requires proteins capable of finding particular DNA sequences in a background of a large excess of nonspecific sequences. Such recognition can involve direct readout, with direct contacts to the bases of DNA, or in some cases through the less well-characterized indirect readout mechanisms. In order to measure the relative contributions of direct and indirect readout by a sequence specific endonuclease, HincII, a mutant enzyme deficient in a direct contact, was characterized, and surprisingly showed no loss of sequence specificity. The three dimensional crystal structure shows the loss of most of the direct readout contacts to the DNA, possibly capturing an early stage in target site recognition using predominately indirect readout to prescreen sites before full sequence interrogation.

Early interrogation and recognition of DNA sequence by indirect readout.,Little EJ, Babic AC, Horton NC Structure. 2008 Dec 12;16(12):1828-37. PMID:19081059[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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References

  1. Little EJ, Babic AC, Horton NC. Early interrogation and recognition of DNA sequence by indirect readout. Structure. 2008 Dec 12;16(12):1828-37. PMID:19081059 doi:S0969-2126(08)00380-8

3ebc, resolution 2.55Å

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