A strand-passage conformation of DNA gyrase is required to allow the bacterial toxin, CcdB, to access its binding site
Open Access
- 8 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 34 (17), 4667-4676
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkl636
Abstract
DNA gyrase is the only topoisomerase able to introduce negative supercoils into DNA. Absent in humans, gyrase is a successful target for antibacterial drugs. However, increasing drug resistance is a serious problem and new agents are urgently needed. The naturally-produced Escherichia coli toxin CcdB has been shown to target gyrase by what is predicted to be a novel mechanism. CcdB has been previously shown to stabilize the gyrase 'cleavage complex', but it has not been shown to inhibit the catalytic reactions of gyrase. We present data showing that CcdB does indeed inhibit the catalytic reactions of gyrase by stabilization of the cleavage complex and that the GyrA C-terminal DNA-wrapping domain and the GyrB N-terminal ATPase domain are dispensable for CcdB's action. We further investigate the role of specific GyrA residues in the action of CcdB by site-directed mutagenesis; these data corroborate a model for CcdB action based on a recent crystal structure of a CcdB-GyrA fragment complex. From this work, we are now able to present a model for CcdB action that explains all previous observations relating to CcdB-gyrase interaction. CcdB action requires a conformation of gyrase that is only revealed when DNA strand passage is taking place.Keywords
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