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Molecular basis of gyrase poisoning by the addiction toxin CcdB.
Journal of molecular biology - 20 May 2005
Dao-Thi Minh-Hoa, Van Melderen Laurence, De Genst Erwin, Afif Hassan, Buts Lieven, Wyns Lode, Loris Remy
Abstract excerpt
Gyrase is an ubiquitous bacterial enzyme that is responsible for disentangling DNA during DNA replication and transcription. It is the target of the toxin CcdB, a paradigm for plasmid addiction systems and related bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems. The crystal structure of CcdB and the dimerization domain of the A subunit of gyrase (GyrA14) dictates an open conformation for the catalytic domain of gyrase when...
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