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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 1067-1078Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00148-5
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM53759, GM57755, GM20470] Funding Source: Medline
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The sigma factors are the key regulators of bacterial transcription. ECF (extracytoplasmic function) sigma's are the largest and most divergent group of sigma(70) family members. ECF or's are normally sequestered in an inactive complex by their specific anti-sigma factor, which often spans the inner membrane. Here, we determined the 2 Angstrom resolution crystal structure of the Escherichia coli ECF sigma factor sigma(E) in an inhibitory complex with the cytoplasmic domain of its anti-sigma, RseA. Despite extensive sequence variability, the two major domains of sigma(E) are virtually identical in structure to the corresponding domains of other sigma(70) family members. In combination with a model of the sigma(E) holoenzyme and biochemical data, the structure reveals that RseA functions by sterically occluding the two primary binding determinants on sigma(E) for core RNA polymerase.
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