| Literature DB >> 26457513 |
Velupillai Srikannathasan1, Alexandre Wohlkonig1, Anthony Shillings1, Onkar Singh1, Pan F Chan2, Jianzhong Huang2, Michael N Gwynn2, Andrew P Fosberry1, Paul Homes1, Martin Hibbs1, Andrew J Theobald1, Claus Spitzfaden1, Benjamin D Bax1.
Abstract
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 Staphylococcus aureus 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 S. aureus 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.Entities:
Keywords: DNA complex; DNA gyrase; etoposide; fluoroquinolone; topoisomerase
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26457513 PMCID: PMC4601586 DOI: 10.1107/S2053230X15015290
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun ISSN: 2053-230X Impact factor: 1.056