Peter Zuber is in the Department of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology,
20000 NW Walker Rd. Beaverton, Oregon 97006
, USA. pzuber@bmb.ogi.edu
The structure of AbrB, a transition state regulator in Bacillus
subtilis, reveals a novel mode of DNA recognition and suggests that the
protein is able to structurally conform to target DNA, both in terms of its
multimeric state and in the positioning of its unique DNA binding domain.
