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  • Titel: Crystallization and initial crystallographic analysis of covalent DNA-cleavage complexes of Staphyloccocus aureus DNA gyrase with QPT-1, moxifloxacin and etoposide
  • Beteiligte: Srikannathasan, Velupillai; Wohlkonig, Alexandre; Shillings, Anthony; Singh, Onkar; Chan, Pan F.; Huang, Jianzhong; Gwynn, Michael N.; Fosberry, Andrew P.; Homes, Paul; Hibbs, Martin; Theobald, Andrew J.; Spitzfaden, Claus; Bax, Benjamin D.
  • Erschienen: International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), 2015
  • Erschienen in: Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1107/s2053230x15015290
  • ISSN: 2053-230X
  • Schlagwörter: Condensed Matter Physics ; Genetics ; Biochemistry ; Structural Biology ; Biophysics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>Fluoroquinolone drugs such as moxifloxacin kill bacteria by stabilizing the normally transient double-stranded DNA breaks created by bacterial type IIA topoisomerases. Previous crystal structures of <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus</jats:italic> DNA gyrase with asymmetric DNAs have had static disorder (with the DNA duplex observed in two orientations related by the pseudo-twofold axis of the complex). Here, 20-base-pair DNA homoduplexes were used to obtain crystals of covalent DNA-cleavage complexes of <jats:italic>S. aureus</jats:italic> DNA gyrase. Crystals with QPT-1, moxifloxacin or etoposide diffracted to between 2.45 and 3.15 Å resolution. A G/T mismatch introduced at the ends of the DNA duplexes facilitated the crystallization of slightly asymmetric complexes of the inherently flexible DNA-cleavage complexes.</jats:p>