title: Single-stranded DNA bound to bacterial cold-shock proteins: preliminary crystallographic and Raman analysis.
abstract: The cold-shock response has been described for several bacterial species. It is characterized by distinct changes in intracellular protein patterns whereby a set of cold-shock-inducible proteins become abundant. The major cold-shock proteins of Bacillus subtilis (Bs-CspB) and Bacillus caldolyticus (Bc-Csp) are small oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB) fold proteins that have been described as binding single-stranded nucleic acids. Bs-CspB (Mr = 7365) and Bc-Csp (Mr = 7333) were crystallized in the presence of the deoxyhexanucleotide (dT)6. Crystals of (dT)6 with Bs-CspB grew in the orthorhombic space group C222(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 49.0, b = 53.2, c = 77.0 A. Crystals with Bc-Csp grew in the primitive orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 74.3, b = 64.9, c = 31.2 A. These crystals diffract to maximal resolutions of 1.78 and 1.29 A, respectively. The presence of protein and DNA in the crystals was demonstrated by Raman spectroscopy.
authors.affiliation: Crystallography Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, D-13092 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Ralf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bienert
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zeeb
authors.forename: Lubomir
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dostál
authors.forename: Anette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feske
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Magg
authors.forename: Klaas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Max
authors.forename: Heinz
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Welfle
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balbach
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Heinemann
mesh_terms: D001407:Bacillus / Q000737:chemistry*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; C407094:cold shock protein, Bacillus; C027903:oligo (dT)