DNA-Binding Activity of Amino-Terminal Domains of the Bacillus subtilis AbrB Protein

AUTOR(ES)

Xu, Ke

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Two truncated variants of AbrB, comprising either its first 53 (AbrBN53) or first 55 (AbrBN55) amino acid residues, were constructed and purified. Noncovalently linked homodimers of the truncated variants exhibited very weak DNA-binding activity. Cross-linking AbrBN55 dimers into tetramers and higher-order multimers (via disulfide bonding between penultimate cysteine residues) resulted in proteins having DNA-binding affinity comparable to and DNA-binding specificity identical to those of intact, wild-type AbrB. These results indicate that the DNA recognition and specificity determinants of AbrB binding lie solely within its N-terminal amino acid sequence.

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