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'''THE NMR STRUCTURES OF A WINGED HELIX PROTEIN: GENESIS, 20 STRUCTURES''' | '''THE NMR STRUCTURES OF A WINGED HELIX PROTEIN: GENESIS, 20 STRUCTURES''' | ||
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Revision as of 03:13, 4 May 2008
THE NMR STRUCTURES OF A WINGED HELIX PROTEIN: GENESIS, 20 STRUCTURES
Overview
The hepatocyte nuclear factor 3 (HNF-3)/fork head (fkh) family contains a large number of transcription factors and folds into a winged helix motif. Despite having almost invariable amino acid sequences in their principal DNA-binding helices, HNF-3/fkh proteins show a wide diversity of sequence-specific binding. Previous studies of chimeric HNF-3/fkh proteins demonstrated that the binding specificity is primarily influenced by a region directly adjacent to the binding helix. We report our findings of an NMR structural study performed on an HNF-3/fkh family member (Genesis, formerly HFH-2) and compare it to that of another family member (HNF-3gamma) complexed to DNA and determined by X-ray crystallography. It is found that in comparison to HNF-3gamma, Genesis contains an extra small helix directly prior to the N terminus of the primary DNA contact helix. Due to the insertion of this helix, a shorter and slightly re-positioned primary DNA contact helix is observed, which we believe leads to the DNA-binding specificity differences among family members.
About this Structure
2HFH is a Single protein structure of sequence from Rattus norvegicus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Structural changes in the region directly adjacent to the DNA-binding helix highlight a possible mechanism to explain the observed changes in the sequence-specific binding of winged helix proteins., Marsden I, Jin C, Liao X, J Mol Biol. 1998 May 1;278(2):293-9. PMID:9571051 Page seeded by OCA on Sun May 4 06:13:47 2008
