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Series GSE134665 Query DataSets for GSE134665
Status Public on Jul 22, 2020
Title Structural and biochemical analyses of Caulobacter crescentus ParB reveal the role of its N-terminal domain in chromosome segregation
Organisms Escherichia coli; Caulobacter vibrioides NA1000
Experiment type Genome binding/occupancy profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary The tripartite ParA-ParB-parS complex ensures faithful chromosome segregation in the majority of bacterial species. ParB nucleates on the centromere-like parS site and spreads to neighboring DNA to form a network of protein-DNA complexes. This nucleoprotein network in turn interacts with ParA to partition the parS locus, hence the chromosome to each daughter cell. Here, we determine the co-crystal structure of the C-terminal domain truncated ParB-parS complex from Caulobacter crescentus, and show that its N-terminal domain is inherently flexible and adopts multiple different conformations. We propose that the flexibility of the N-terminal domain might facilitate the spreading of ParB on the chromosome. Next, using ChIP-seq we show that ParBs from different bacterial species exhibit variation in their intrinsic capability for spreading, and that the N-terminal domain rather than the C-terminal domain is the main determinant for the variation in spreading. Finally, we show that the C-terminal domain of Caulobacter ParB does not possess non-specific DNA-binding activity in vitro. Engineered ParB variants with enhanced non-specific DNA-binding activity condense DNA in vitro but do not spread further than a wild-type protein in vivo. Taken together, our results emphasize the central role of the N-terminal domain in ParB spreading and faithful chromosome segregation.
 
Overall design Chromatin-immunoprecipitation with deep sequencing experiments (ChIP-seq) were performed on exponential-growing Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus.
 
Contributor(s) Le TB, Tran NT, Jalal AS, Stevenson SE, Lawson DM, Moreno-Herrero F, Pastrana CL
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Submission date Jul 22, 2019
Last update date Jul 25, 2020
Contact name Tung Ba Khanh Le
E-mail(s) tung.le@jic.ac.uk
Phone 01603450776
Organization name John Innes Centre
Department Department of Molecular Microbiology
Lab www.tunglelab.org
Street address Colney Lane
City Norwich
State/province Norfolk
ZIP/Postal code NR4 7UH
Country United Kingdom
 
Platforms (2)
GPL18133 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Escherichia coli)
GPL26943 Illumina HiSeq 2500 (Caulobacter vibrioides NA1000)
Samples (27)
GSM3963011 LeLab_ChIP_seq_MT148_vanA_Pvan_1xFLAG_Caulobacter_crescentus_ParB_3K_rep1
GSM3963012 LeLab_ChIP_seq_MT148_vanA_Pvan_1xFLAG_Caulobacter_crescentus_ParB_3K_rep2
GSM3963013 LeLab_ChIP_seq_MT148_vanA_Pvan_1xFLAG_Caulobacter_crescentus_ParB_4K_rep1
Relations
BioProject PRJNA556011
SRA SRP215947

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