Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 476, Issue 3, Pages 190-193Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01723-3
Keywords
histidine residues; visna virus nucleocapsid protein; metal ion binding; DNA binding; zinc finger domains
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- NCI NIH HHS [N01-CO-56000] Funding Source: Medline
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Zinc finger (ZF) domains in retroviral nucleocapsid proteins usually contain one histidine per metal ion coordination complex (Cys-X-2-Cys-X-4-His-X-4-Cys). Visna virus nucleocapsid protein, p8, has two additional histidines (in the second of its two ZFs) that could potentially bind metal ions. Absorption spectra of cobalt-bound ZF2 peptides were altered by Cys alkylation and mutation, but not by mutation of the extra histidines. Our results show that visna p8 ZFs involve three Cys and one His in the canonical spacing in metal ion coordination, and that the two additional histidines appear to interact with nucleic acid bases in p8-DNA complexes. (C) 2000 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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