Figure 4.
Effect of Trp3 on the stability of the [4Fe–4S] cluster in the WhiB1:σACTD complex. (A) Solvent-accessible path from the surface towards the [4Fe–4S] cluster in the mutated model of the WhiB1-W3A:σACTD complex was calculated by CAVER 3.0 with a shell radius of 1.4 Å. The minimum bottleneck of the path is 1.7 Å. (B) Cell growth of M. smegmatis wildtype (WT) and the whiB1-W3A mutant on either a 7H10 agar plate for 3 days (top) or in 7H9 broth under optimal growth conditions. Error bars in the growth curves represent the standard deviation of triplicate samples.