Structure of Antibacterial Peptide Microcin J25: A 21-Residue Lariat Protoknot
Marvin J. Bayro(Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Jayanta Mukhopadhyay(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), G.V.T. Swapna(Scripps Research Institute), Janet Huang(Scripps Research Institute), Li-Chung Ma(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Elena V. Sineva(Scripps Research Institute), Philip E. Dawson(Scripps Research Institute), G.T. Montelione(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Richard H. Ebright(Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
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Abstract
The antibacterial peptide microcin J25 (MccJ25) inhibits bacterial transcription by binding within, and obstructing, the nucleotide-uptake channel of bacterial RNA polymerase. Published covalent and three-dimensional structures indicate that MccJ25 is a 21-residue cycle. Here, we show that the published covalent and three-dimensional structures are incorrect, and that MccJ25 in fact is a 21-residue "lariat protoknot", consisting of an 8-residue cyclic segment followed by a 13-residue linear segment that loops back and threads through the cyclic segment. MccJ25 is the first example of a lariat protoknot involving a backbone-side chain amide linkage.
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