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Contribution Of The Novel C-Terminal Domain To The Ribosome Binding Activities Of Virulence Regulator Bipa, Heeren Makanji
Contribution Of The Novel C-Terminal Domain To The Ribosome Binding Activities Of Virulence Regulator Bipa, Heeren Makanji
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Bacterial GTPases regulate many cell functions, including the stress response, signal recognition, protein synthesis, and cell differentiation, through a molecular switch that is activated and deactivated depending on their nucleotide bound state (1). A member of the translational family of bacterial GTPases along with LepA and EF-G, BipA is a 67 kD protein that is essential for virulence and the stress response. Crystal structures from the Robinson lab have shown a unique C-terminal domain on BipA that has been implicated in ribosome binding. Using N-terminal deletion constructs, we have shown that the C-terminal domain is necessary, but not sufficient, to …