PMID:23953921

Citation	Olszewski, M, Nowak, M, Cyranka-Czaja, A and Kur, J' (2013) Identification and characterization of single-stranded DNA-binding protein from the facultative psychrophilic bacteria Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis. Microbiol. Res. '
Abstract	Single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) plays an important role in DNA metabolism such as DNA replication, repair, and recombination, and is essential for cell survival. This study reports on the ssb-like gene cloning, gene expression and characterization of a single-stranded DNA-binding protein of Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis (PhaSSB) and is the first report of such a protein from psychrophilic microorganism. PhaSSB possesses a high sequence similarity to Escherichia coli SSB (48% identity and 57% similarity) and has the longest amino acid sequence (244 amino acid residues) of all the known bacterial SSBs with one OB-fold per monomer. An analysis of purified PhaSSB by means of chemical cross-linking experiments, sedimentation analysis and size exclusion chromatography revealed a stable tetramer in solution. Using EMSA, we characterized the stoichiometry of PhaSSB complexed with a series of ssDNA homopolymers, and the size of the binding site was determined as being approximately 35 nucleotides long. In fluorescence titrations, the occluded site size of PhaSSB on poly(dT) is 34 nucleotides per tetramer under low-salt conditions (2mM NaCl), but increases to 54-64 nucleotides at higher-salt conditions (100-300mM NaCl). This suggests that PhaSSB undergoes a transition between ssDNA binding modes, which is observed for EcoSSB. The binding properties of PhaSSB investigated using SPR technology revealed that the affinity of PhaSSB to ssDNA is typical of SSB proteins. The only difference in the binding mode of PhaSSB to ssDNA is a faster association phase, when compared to EcoSSB, though compensated by faster dissociation rate. When analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the melting temperature (Tm) was determined as 63°C, which is only a few degrees lower than for EcoSSB.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1016/j.micres.2013.07.010
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Gene product	Qualifier	GO Term	Evidence Code	with/from	Aspect	Extension	Notes	Status
PSEHT:Q3IJB1		GO:0044777: single-stranded DNA-binding protein complex	ECO:0000314:		C		Figure 4 shows the PhaSSB protein/ssDNA complexes at various concentrations and lengths of ssDNA, indicating that a protein-substrate interaction is occurring.	complete CACAO 8604
PSEHT:Q3IJB1	part_of	GO:0044777: single-stranded DNA-binding protein complex	ECO:0000314: direct assay evidence used in manual assertion		C		Seeded From UniProt	complete

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