Structural highlights
Function
[FIS_ECOLI] Activates ribosomal RNA transcription, as well other genes. Plays a direct role in upstream activation of rRNA promoters. Binds to a recombinational enhancer sequence that is required to stimulate hin-mediated DNA inversion. Prevents initiation of DNA replication from oriC.[1] [2]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The Fis protein regulates site-specific DNA inversion catalyzed by a family of DNA invertases when bound to a cis-acting recombinational enhancer. As is often found for transactivation domains, previous crystal structures have failed to resolve the conformation of the N-terminal inversion activation region within the Fis dimer. A new crystal form of a mutant Fis protein now reveals that the activation region contains two beta-hairpin arms that protrude over 20 A from the protein core. Saturation mutagenesis identified the regulatory and structurally important amino acids. The most critical activating residues are located near the tips of the beta-arms. Disulfide cross-linking between the beta-arms demonstrated that they are highly flexible in solution and that efficient inversion activation can occur when the beta-arms are covalently linked together. The emerging picture for this regulatory motif is that contacts with the recombinase at the tip of the mobile beta-arms activate the DNA invertase in the context of an invertasome complex.
The transactivation region of the fis protein that controls site-specific DNA inversion contains extended mobile beta-hairpin arms.,Safo MK, Yang WZ, Corselli L, Cramton SE, Yuan HS, Johnson RC EMBO J. 1997 Nov 17;16(22):6860-73. PMID:9362499[3]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Ross W, Thompson JF, Newlands JT, Gourse RL. E.coli Fis protein activates ribosomal RNA transcription in vitro and in vivo. EMBO J. 1990 Nov;9(11):3733-42. PMID:2209559
- ↑ Wold S, Crooke E, Skarstad K. The Escherichia coli Fis protein prevents initiation of DNA replication from oriC in vitro. Nucleic Acids Res. 1996 Sep 15;24(18):3527-32. PMID:8836178
- ↑ Safo MK, Yang WZ, Corselli L, Cramton SE, Yuan HS, Johnson RC. The transactivation region of the fis protein that controls site-specific DNA inversion contains extended mobile beta-hairpin arms. EMBO J. 1997 Nov 17;16(22):6860-73. PMID:9362499 doi:10.1093/emboj/16.22.6860
