PcrA helicase
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What is a Helicase?
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| Gene: | PCRA (Geobacillus stearothermophilus) | ||||||||
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum | ||||||||
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Helicases are nucleic acid–dependent ATP-ases that are capable of unwinding DNA [1] or RNA [2] duplex substrates. As a consequence, they play roles in almost every process in cells that involves nucleic acids, including DNA replication and repair, transcription, translation, ribosome synthesis (1).
PcrA a Simple Model for Helicases
PcrA is part of the replication machinery of the Geobacillus stearothermophilusa gram (+) bacteria, This helicase is part of the superfamily I of Helicases. monomeric protein that is mainly . This helicase was reported as a mutation in the gen PcrA from "Stapphylococcus aerous", this mutation was related to a deficiency in the replication of a reporter plasmid.[3]
PcrA Biochemistry
PcrA is able to couple the hydrolysis of a broad range of nucleotides to a 3'-5' helicase strand separation reaction. The enzyme shows a specificity for the DNA substrate in gel mobility assays with the preferred substrate being one containing both single and double stranded regions of DNA. In contrast to Rep and UvrD from E. coli, we do not see any evidence for dimerisation of the enzyme using gel filtration, or by crosslinking in the presence of combinations of Mg2+, nucleotides and DNA. Moreover, kcat for ATP hydrolysis is constant over a large range of protein concentrations. Therefore, the protein appears to be monomeric under all conditions tested, including in the structure of two crystal forms of PcrA.[4]
The Superfamily 1 (SF1)
PcrA share structural domains with the Rec helicases, like UvrD and RepD from E. coli
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| Gene: | uvrD (Escherichia coli) | ||||||||
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| 1uaa, resolution 3.00Å () | |||||||||
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Structure of the lac repressor
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The lac repressor protein ( showing chain A in 1lbg, resolution 4.8 Å), starting at the N-terminus, begins with a DNA-binding "headpiece", followed by a hinge region, then an N-terminal ligand-binding subdomain and a C-terminal ligand binding subdomain, a linker, and a C-terminal tetramerization helix[1]. (.) In the absence of DNA, the hinge region does not form the alpha helix shown here.
As can be seen when the chain is
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each of the ligand-binding subdomains is made up of two discontinuous segments.
The lac repressor forms . Dimerization buries 2,200 Å2 of surface, including a ,
forming a hydrophobic core (shown with 1lbi, resolution 2.7 Å, lacking the DNA-binding domain due to disorder).
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The most highly is the surface that contacts DNA[2]. (Only alpha carbon atoms are shown here, without sidechains, because sidechains were not resolved in the 4.8 Å 1lbg model.) The dimerization surfaces are the of the ligand-binding domains[3]. (This scene shows sidechains, using the 2.7 Å model in 1lbi, which lacks the DNA-binding domain due to disorder.)
<--! scene with translucent :a is #11, but I didn't like it. --> The C-terminal tetramerization helices tether two dimers, and thus the functional form of with two DNA-binding sites.
See Also
- Category: Lac repressor and Category: Lac Repressor, automatically-generated pages that list PDB codes for lac repressor models.
- Morphs where the morph of the lac repressor is used as an example.
References & Notes
- ↑ This domain coloring scheme is adapted from Fig. 6 in the review by Lewis (C. R. Biol. 328:521, 2005). Domains are 1-45, 46-62, (63-162,291-320), (163-290,321-332), 330-339, and 340-357.
- ↑ Conservation results for 1lbg are from the precalculated ConSurf Database, using 103 sequences from Swiss-Prot with an average pairwise distance of 2.4.
- ↑ Conservation results for 1lbi are from the ConSurf Server, using 100 sequences from Uniprot with an average pairwise distance of 1.3.
History of DNA Helicase Discovery
About this Structure
1PJR is a Single protein structure of sequence from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Crystal structure of a DExx box DNA helicase., Subramanya HS, Bird LE, Brannigan JA, Wigley DB, Nature. 1996 Nov 28;384(6607):379-83. PMID:8934527
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