1owf
From Proteopedia
Crystal structure of a mutant IHF (BetaE44A) complexed with the native H' Site
Overview
Integration host factor (IHF) is a DNA-bending protein that recognizes its cognate sites through indirect readout. Previous studies have shown that binding of wild-type (WT)-IHF is disrupted by a T to A mutation at the center position of a conserved TTR motif in its binding site, and that substitution of betaGlu44 with Ala prevented IHF from discriminating between A and T at this position. We have determined the crystal structures and relative binding affinities for all combinations of WT-IHF and IHF-betaGlu44Ala bound to the WT and mutant DNAs. Comparison of these structures reveals that DNA twist plays a major role in DNA recognition by IHF, and that this geometric parameter is dependent on the dinucleotide step and not on the bound IHF variant.
About this Structure
1OWF is a Protein complex structure of sequences from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Integration host factor: putting a twist on protein-DNA recognition., Lynch TW, Read EK, Mattis AN, Gardner JF, Rice PA, J Mol Biol. 2003 Jul 11;330(3):493-502. PMID:12842466 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 04:21:44 2008
