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The C-terminal domain of the bacteriophage T4 terminase docks on the prohead portal clip region during DNA packaging.


ABSTRACT: Bacteriophage ATP-based packaging motors translocate DNA into a pre-formed prohead through a dodecameric portal ring channel to high density. We investigated portal-terminase docking interactions at specifically localized residues within a terminase-interaction region (aa279-316) in the phage T4 portal protein gp20 equated to the clip domain of the SPP1 portal crystal structure by 3D modeling. Within this region, three residues allowed A to C mutations whereas three others did not, consistent with informatics analyses showing the tolerated residues are not strongly conserved evolutionarily. About 7.5nm was calculated by FCS-FRET studies employing maleimide Alexa488 dye labeled A316C proheads and gp17 CT-ReAsH supporting previous work docking the C-terminal end of the T4 terminase (gp17) closer to the N-terminal GFP-labeled portal (gp20) than the N-terminal end of the terminase. Such a terminase-portal orientation fits better to a proposed "DNA crunching" compression packaging motor and to portal determined DNA headful cutting.

SUBMITTER: Dixit AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903156 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The C-terminal domain of the bacteriophage T4 terminase docks on the prohead portal clip region during DNA packaging.

Dixit Aparna Banerjee AB   Ray Krishanu K   Thomas Julie A JA   Black Lindsay W LW  

Virology 20130907 1-2


Bacteriophage ATP-based packaging motors translocate DNA into a pre-formed prohead through a dodecameric portal ring channel to high density. We investigated portal-terminase docking interactions at specifically localized residues within a terminase-interaction region (aa279-316) in the phage T4 portal protein gp20 equated to the clip domain of the SPP1 portal crystal structure by 3D modeling. Within this region, three residues allowed A to C mutations whereas three others did not, consistent wi  ...[more]

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