1f43

SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE MATA1 HOMEODOMAINSOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE MATA1 HOMEODOMAIN

Structural highlights 1f43 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Solution NMR Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function MATA1_YEASX Mating type proteins are sequence specific DNA-binding proteins that act as master switches in yeast differentiation by controlling gene expression in a cell type-specific fashion. Transcriptional corepressor that, in a/alpha diploid cells, binds cooperatively with the ALPHA2 protein to a 21-bp DNA sequence termed the haploid-specific gene (hsg) operator, to repress transcription of haploid-specific genes and of MATALPHA1. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed The mating type homeodomain proteins, MATa1 and MATalpha2, combine to form a heterodimer to bind DNA in diploid yeast cells. The a1-alpha2 heterodimer tightly and specifically binds haploid-specific gene operators to repress transcription. On its own, however, the a1 homeodomain does not bind DNA in a sequence-specific manner. To help understand this interaction, we describe the solution structure and backbone dynamics of the free a1 homeodomain. Free a1 in solution is an ensemble of structures having flexible hinges at the two turns in the small protein fold. Conformational changes in the a1 homeodomain upon ternary complex formation are located in the loop between helix 1 and helix 2, where the C-terminal tail of alpha2 binds to form the heterodimer, and at the C-terminus of helix 3, the DNA recognition helix. The observed differences, comparing the free and bound a1 structures, suggest a mechanism linking van der Waals stacking changes to the ordering of a final turn in the DNA-binding helix of a1. The tail of alpha2 induces changes in loop 1 of a1 that push it toward a properly folded DNA binding conformation. Cooperative ordering in homeodomain-DNA recognition: solution structure and dynamics of the MATa1 homeodomain.,Anderson JS, Forman MD, Modleski S, Dahlquist FW, Baxter SM Biochemistry. 2000 Aug 22;39(33):10045-54. PMID:10955992 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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