Crystal structure of ScpB from Chlorobium tepidum, a protein involved in chromosome partitioning.
Kim, J.S., Shin, D.H., Pufan, R., Huang, C., Yokota, H., Kim, R., Kim, S.H.(2006) Proteins 62: 322-328
- PubMed: 16294331 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/prot.20751
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1T6S - PubMed Abstract: 
Structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) proteins are essential in chromosome condensation and interact with non-SMC proteins in eukaryotes and with segregation and condensation proteins (ScpA and ScpB) in prokaryotes. The highly conserved gene in Chlorobium tepidum gi 21646405 encodes ScpB (ScpB_ChTe). The high resolution crystal structure of ScpB_ChTe shows that the monomeric structure consists of two similarly shaped globular domains composed of three helices sided by beta-strands [a winged helix-turn-helix (HTH)], a motif observed in the C-terminal domain of Scc1, a functionally related eukaryotic ScpA homolog, as well as in many DNA binding proteins.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.