Cho H S, Liu C W, Damberger F F, Pelton J G, Nelson H C, Wemmer D E
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
Protein Sci. 1996 Feb;5(2):262-9. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560050210.
The structure and dynamics of the N-terminal activation domains of the yeast heat shock transcription factors of Kluyveromyces lactis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae were probed by heteronuclear 15N[1H] correlation and 15N[1H] NOE NMR studies. Using the DNA-binding domain as a structural reference, we show that the protein backbone of the N-terminal activation domain undergoes rapid, large-amplitude motions and is therefore unstructured. Difference CD data also show that the N-terminal activation domain remains random-coil, even in the presence of DNA. Implications for a "polypeptide lasso" model of transcriptional activation are discussed.
通过异核15N[1H]相关和15N[1H] NOE核磁共振研究,对乳酸克鲁维酵母和酿酒酵母的酵母热休克转录因子N端激活结构域的结构和动力学进行了探究。以DNA结合结构域作为结构参考,我们发现N端激活结构域的蛋白质主链经历快速、大幅度的运动,因此是无结构的。差异圆二色性数据也表明,即使存在DNA,N端激活结构域仍保持无规卷曲。文中讨论了转录激活的“多肽套索”模型的相关意义。