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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 19, 页码 6451-6457出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm705
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- Wellcome Trust [081916, 067416, 077371] Funding Source: Medline
Concerted, stochastic and sequential mechanisms of action have been proposed for different hexameric AAA molecular motors. Here we report the crystal structure of the E1 helicase from bovine papillomavirus, where asymmetric assembly is for the first time observed in the absence of nucleotide cofactors and DNA. Surprisingly, the ATP-binding sites adopt specific conformations linked to positional changes in the DNA-binding hairpins, which follow a wave-like trajectory, as observed previously in the E1/DNA/ADP complex. The proteins assembly thus maintains such an asymmetric state in the absence of DNA and nucleotide cofactors, allowing consideration of the E1 helicase action as the propagation of a conformational wave around the protein ring. The data imply that the waves propagation within the AAA domains is not necessarily coupled with a strictly sequential hydrolysis of ATP. Since a single ATP hydrolysis event would affect the whole hexamer, such events may simply serve to rectify the direction of the waves motion.
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