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Linggang Yuan¹, Qingyang Liu¹, Liqiao Xu¹

¹Department of Biophysics, and Department of Infectious Disease of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.

Nature communications

|June 6, 2024

概括

黄金葡萄球菌转录启动在sigma A和sigma B因子之间有所不同. 新的冷EM结构揭示了sigma B使用双链DNA,与sigma A不同,解释了促进体特异性和帮助抗生素药物设计.

科学领域:

微生物学微生物学
结构生物学结构生物学
分子生物学分子生物学

背景情况:

细菌转录的启动需要RNA聚合酶 (RNAP) 的全酶形成与西格玛 (σ) 因子.
在金黄色葡萄球菌中,s^A指导着家政基因,而s^B则控制关键功能,包括毒性和抗菌素耐药性.
对于s^B的促进体,它们的DNA间隔器比s^A更短,这表明它们具有不同的识别机制.

研究的目的:

通过σA和σB因子阐明*黄金葡萄球菌*转录的促进体特异性的基础结构机制.
为了理解 σ^B 如何识别其目标促进者的结构基础,与经过充分研究的 σ^{A^不同.}

主要方法:

低温电子显微镜 (cryo-EM) 用于确定*S. aureus*RNAP促进体开放复合体的结构,其中具有s^A和s^B.
生物化学实验以验证结构发现并评估功能影响.

主要成果:

确定 *S. aureus* RNAP全酶的冷-EM结构与促进DNA结合,其中包括 σA 和 σB.
揭示了 σ^A 通过域 σ^A₂ 识别了 -10 促进元作为单链DNA.
证明 σ^B 通过域 σ^B₂ 和 σ^B₃ 的共同识别来识别 -10 促进元作为双链DNA,解释了更短的间距要求.

结论:

σ^A和 σ^B的独特DNA结合方式解释了它们在黄金葡萄球菌中的促进体特异性.
这些发现为细菌转录调节提供了关键的结构性见解.
这些结构为开发针对*S. aureus*RNAP的新型抗生素提供了基础.

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