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Snapshots of a molecular swivel in action.

ABSTRACT: Members of the serine family of site-specific recombinases exchange DNA strands via 180° rotation about a central protein-protein interface. Modeling of this process has been hampered by the lack of structures in more than one rotational state for any individual serine recombinase. Here we report crystal structures of the catalytic domains of four constitutively active mutants of the serine recombinase Sin, providing snapshots of rotational states not previously visualized for Sin, including two seen in the same crystal. Normal mode analysis predicted that each tetramer's lowest frequency mode (i.e. most accessible large-scale motion) mimics rotation: two protomers rotate as a pair with respect to the other two. Our analyses also suggest that rotation is not a rigid body movement around a single symmetry axis but instead uses multiple pivot points and entails internal motions within each subunit.

SUBMITTER: Trejo CS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6007550 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Snapshots of a molecular swivel in action.

Trejo Caitlin S CS Rock Ronald S RS Stark W Marshall WM Boocock Martin R MR Rice Phoebe A PA

Nucleic acids research 20180601 10

Members of the serine family of site-specific recombinases exchange DNA strands via 180° rotation about a central protein-protein interface. Modeling of this process has been hampered by the lack of structures in more than one rotational state for any individual serine recombinase. Here we report crystal structures of the catalytic domains of four constitutively active mutants of the serine recombinase Sin, providing snapshots of rotational states not previously visualized for Sin, including two ...[more]

PMID: 29315406

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