Pereira Jose Henrique, Ha Sung Chul, Kim Sung-Hou
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2008 Mar 1;64(Pt 3):175-8. doi: 10.1107/S1744309108003370. Epub 2008 Feb 23.
The Brn-5 protein plays an important role in the control of cellular development and belongs to a class of transcription factors that usually contain two domains: the POU homeodomain (POU(HD)) and the POU-specific domain (POU(S)). Since high-quality crystals suitable for crystallographic studies of the proteins of this class are difficult to obtain, all the known structural information available is for POU(HD) and/or POU(S). This paper describes several critical steps that allowed the production of high-quality crystals of the full-length Brn-5 protein complexed with its cognate DNA.
Brn-5蛋白在细胞发育控制中发挥着重要作用,属于一类转录因子,这类转录因子通常包含两个结构域:POU同源结构域(POU(HD))和POU特异性结构域(POU(S))。由于难以获得适用于这类蛋白质晶体学研究的高质量晶体,所有已知的结构信息都来自POU(HD)和/或POU(S)。本文描述了几个关键步骤,这些步骤使得能够产生与同源DNA复合的全长Brn-5蛋白的高质量晶体。