Is a fully wrapped SSB-DNA complex essential for Escherichia coli survival?
In: Nucleic acids research, Jg. 44 (2016-05-19), Heft 9, S. 4317-29
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Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) is an essential homotetramer that binds ssDNA and recruits multiple proteins to their sites of action during genomic maintenance. Each SSB subunit contains an N-terminal globular oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding fold (OB-fold) and an intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain. SSB binds ssDNA in multiple modes in vitro, including the fully wrapped (SSB)65 and (SSB)56 modes, in which ssDNA contacts all four OB-folds, and the highly cooperative (SSB)35 mode, in which ssDNA contacts an average of only two OB-folds. These modes can both be populated under physiological conditions. While these different modes might be used for different functions, this has been difficult to assess. Here we used a dimeric SSB construct with two covalently linked OB-folds to disable ssDNA binding in two of the four OB-folds thus preventing formation of fully wrapped DNA complexes in vitro, although they retain a wild-type-like, salt-dependent shift in cooperative binding to ssDNA. These variants complement wild-type SSB in vivo indicating that a fully wrapped mode is not essential for function. These results do not preclude a normal function for a fully wrapped mode, but do indicate that E. coli tolerates some flexibility with regards to its SSB binding modes.
(© The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.)
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Is a fully wrapped SSB-DNA complex essential for Escherichia coli survival?
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Waldman, VM ; Weiland, E ; Kozlov, AG ; Lohman, TM |
Zeitschrift: | Nucleic acids research, Jg. 44 (2016-05-19), Heft 9, S. 4317-29 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1992- : Oxford : Oxford University Press ; <i>Original Publication</i>: London, Information Retrieval ltd., 2016 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1362-4962 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkw262 |
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