Escherichia coli antitoxin MazE as transcription factor: insights into MazE-DNA binding.
Valentina Zorzini, Lieven Buts, Evelyne Schrank, Yann G J Sterckx, Michal Respondek, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, Remy Loris, Klaus Zangger, Nico A J van Nuland
文献索引:Nucleic Acids Res. 43(2) , 1241-56, (2015)
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules are pairs of genes essential for bacterial regulation upon environmental stresses. The mazEF module encodes the MazF toxin and its cognate MazE antitoxin. The highly dynamic MazE possesses an N-terminal DNA binding domain through which it can negatively regulate its own promoter. Despite being one of the first TA systems studied, transcriptional regulation of Escherichia coli mazEF remains poorly understood. This paper presents the solution structure of C-terminal truncated E. coli MazE and a MazE-DNA model with a DNA palindrome sequence ∼ 10 bp upstream of the mazEF promoter. The work has led to a transcription regulator-DNA model, which has remained elusive thus far in the E. coli toxin-antitoxin family. Multiple complementary techniques including NMR, SAXS and ITC show that the long intrinsically disordered C-termini in MazE, required for MazF neutralization, does not affect the interactions between the antitoxin and its operator. Rather, the MazE C-terminus plays an important role in the MazF binding, which was found to increase the MazE affinity for the palindromic single site operator.© The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.
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