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Functional Role of $^{60}RR^{61}$ in 23S rRNA Methylation, Which is in N-Terminal End Region of ErmSF  

Jin, Hyung-Jong (Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, College of Natural Science, The University of Suwon)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.44, no.3, 2008 , pp. 193-198 More about this Journal
Abstract
ErmSF is one of the proteins which are produced by Streptomyces fradiae to avoid suicide by its autogenous macrolide antibiotic, tylosin and one of ERM proteins which are responsible for transferring the methyl group to $A_{2058}$ (Escherichia coli coordinate) in 23S rRNA, which reduces the affinity of MLS (macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B) antibiotics to 23S rRNA, thereby confers the antibiotic resistance on microorganisms ranging from antibiotic producers to pathogens. ErmSF contains an extra N-terminal end region (NTER), which is unique to ErmSF and 25% of amino acids of which is arginine known well to interact with RNA. Noticeably, arginine is concentrated in $^{58}RARR^{61}$ and functional role of each arginine in this motif was investigated through deletion and site-directed mutagenesis and the activity of mutant proteins in cell R60 and R61 was found to play an important role in enzyme activity through the study with deletion mutant up to R60 and R61. With the site-directed mutagenesis using deletion mutant of 1 to 59 (R60A, R61A, and RR60, 61AA), R60 was found more important than R61 but R61 was necessary for the proper activity of R60 and vice versa. And these amino acids were presumed to assume a secondary structure of $\alpha$-helix.
Keywords
deletion mutagenesis; growth curve; in vivo activity; leaky expression; overexpression; site-directed mutagenesis $MLS_B$ (macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B) antibiotic resistance factor protein;
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