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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 355, Issue 4, Pages 798-808Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.11.020
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FihDC; crystal structure; DNA bending
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The hetero-oligomeric complex of the FlhD and FlhC proteins (FlhDC) regulates transcription from several flagellar and non-flagellar operons in bacteria. The crystallographic structure of the Escherichia coli FlhDC complex has been solved to 3.0 angstrom resolution, revealing a hexameric FlhD(4)FlhC(2) assembly. In the complex, each FlhC protomer binds an FlhD(2) dimer; the conformation of the dimer in the complex differs significantly from its conformation in the absence of FlhC. FlhC has a novel tertiary fold that includes a heretofore unrecognized zinc-binding site in which the ion is ligated by four cysteine residues. Gel shift experiments show that binding of the FlhDC complex to a cognate promoter bends the DNA by approximately 111 degrees. The structure of the FlhDC complex is compatible with models in which a fragment of operator DNA, at least 48 base-pairs in length, wraps around the complex and bends significantly when binding. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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