Crystal structure of ScpB from Chlorobium tepidum, a protein involved in chromosome partitioning

  • Jeong Sun Kim
  • , Dong Hae Shin
  • , Ramona Pufan
  • , Candice Huang
  • , Hisao Yokota
  • , Rosalind Kim
  • , Sung Hou Kim

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Abstract

Structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) proteins are essential in chromosome condensation and interact with non-SMC proteins in eukaryotes and with segregation and condensation proteins (ScpA and ScpB) in prokaryotes. The highly conserved gene in Chlorobium tepidum gi 21646405 encodes ScpB (ScpB_ChTe). The high resolution crystal structure of ScpB_ChTe shows that the monomeric structure consists of two similarly shaped globular domains composed of three helices sided by β-strands [a winged helix-turn-helix (HTH)], a motif observed in the C-terminal domain of Scc1, a functionally related eukaryotic ScpA homolog, as well as in many DNA binding proteins.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)322-328
Number of pages7
JournalProteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics
Volume62
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2006

Keywords

  • Chlorobium tepidum
  • Chromosome partitioning
  • Crystal structure

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