1YSA

THE GCN4 BASIC REGION LEUCINE ZIPPER BINDS DNA AS A DIMER OF UNINTERRUPTED ALPHA HELICES: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE PROTEIN-DNA COMPLEX

X-RAY DIFFRACTION

Crystallization

Crystalization Experiments
ID	Method	pH	Temperature	Details
1	VAPOR DIFFUSION, HANGING DROP	5.75	295	pH 5.75, VAPOR DIFFUSION, HANGING DROP, temperature 295.00K TWO ADENINES, B22 AND B23, WHICH ARE NEAR THE 5-PRIME END OF DNA CHAIN B ARE LOOPED OUT OF THE DNA HELIX. THIS CONFORMATION IS PRESENT IN CRYSTALS THAT WERE SOAKED IN 35% (VOL/VOL) POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL MW 400, FOLLOWED BY RAPID FREEZING AND X-RAY DATA COLLECTION AT -155 DEG. CENTIGRADE.

Crystal Properties
Matthews coefficient	Solvent content
2.43	49.4

Crystal Data

Unit Cell
Length ( Å )	Angle ( ˚ )
a = 49.13	α = 90
b = 88.54	β = 90
c = 59.24	γ = 90

Symmetry
Space Group	P 21 21 21

Diffraction

Diffraction Experiment
ID #	Crystal ID	Scattering Type	Data Collection Temperature	Detector	Detector Type	Details	Collection Date	Monochromator	Protocol
1	1	x-ray	118	AREA DETECTOR	SIEMENS-NICOLET			M	SINGLE WAVELENGTH

Radiation Source
ID #	Source	Type	Wavelength List	Synchrotron Site	Beamline
1	ROTATING ANODE	ELLIOTT GX-13

Data Collection

Overall
ID #	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Percent Possible (Observed)	R Merge I (Observed)	Net I Over Average Sigma (I)	Redundancy	Number Reflections (All)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Observed Criterion Sigma (F)	Observed Criterion Sigma (I)	B (Isotropic) From Wilson Plot
1	2.9	8	96	0.099				5289	1.5

Refinement

Statistics
Diffraction ID	Structure Solution Method	Resolution (High)	Resolution (Low)	Cut-off Sigma (F)	Number Reflections (Observed)	Number Reflections (R-Free)	Percent Reflections (Observed)	R-Factor (Observed)	R-Work (Depositor)	R-Free (Depositor)	Mean Isotropic B
X-RAY DIFFRACTION		2.9	8	1.5	5289			0.23

Temperature Factor Modeling
Anisotropic B[1][1]	Anisotropic B[1][2]	Anisotropic B[1][3]	Anisotropic B[2][2]	Anisotropic B[2][3]	Anisotropic B[3][3]

RMS Deviations
Key	Refinement Restraint Deviation
t_angle_deg	3.3
t_bond_d	0.023
t_dihedral_angle_d
t_incorr_chiral_ct
t_pseud_angle
t_trig_c_planes
t_gen_planes
t_it
t_nbd

Non-Hydrogen Atoms Used in Refinement
Non-Hydrogen Atoms	Number
Protein Atoms	941
Nucleic Acid Atoms	814
Solvent Atoms	17
Heterogen Atoms

Software

Software
Software Name	Purpose
TNT	refinement

RCSB PDB Core Operations are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (DBI-2321666), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749), and the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant R01GM157729.