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Functional domains of chlamydial histone H1-like protein.
Remacha M
,
Kaul R
,
Sherburne R
,
Wenman WM
.
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Chlamydial trachomatis is one of the few prokaryotic organisms known to contain proteins that bear amino acid similarity to eukaryotic histone H1. It is also appreciated that chlamydial histone-like proteins, designated Hc1 and Hc2, can bind DNA and are presumably involved in the condensation of infectious elementary bodies. However, there is no information on either the orientation of Hc1 and Hc2 or the mechanism of their DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions. Whereas the C-terminal domain of Hc1 between amino acids 63 and 125 shows best alignment with sea-urchin histone H1, and N-terminus between amino acids 1 and 62 is highly conserved among various chlamydial species, suggesting a bifunctional role for this unique protein. In order to delineate the regions responsible for the Hc1 characteristics, we have expressed these two fragments independently in Escherichia coli and studied the binding of double-stranded DNA to either whole Hc1 protein or its two termini. Our results support the role of the carboxyl portion in DNA-protein interaction, a function similar to its eukaryotic counterpart. Although this interaction initiates DNA condensation in the absence of the N-terminal domain, it is not sufficient to produce complete compaction. Intra- or inter-molecular protein-protein interactions may be necessary to achieve such an effect.
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