1ddn

DIPHTHERIA TOX REPRESSOR (C102D MUTANT)/TOX DNA OPERATOR COMPLEX

spinqualitylabelsall models 1ddn, resolution 3.00Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 1ddn is a 6 chain structure with sequence from Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 3Å Ligands: NI Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function DTXR_CORDI Iron-binding repressor of the dipheteria toxin gene expression. May serve as a global regulator of gene expression. Represses ripA under iron excess. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed The virulent phenotype of the pathogenic bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae is conferred by diphtheria toxin, whose expression is an adaptive response to low concentrations of iron. The expression of the toxin gene (tox) is regulated by the repressor DtxR, which is activated by transition metal ions. X-ray crystal structures of DtxR with and without (apo-form) its coordinated transition metal ion have established the general architecture of the repressor, identified the location of the metal-binding sites, and revealed a metal-ion-triggered subunit-subunit 'caliper-like' conformational change. Here we report the three-dimensional crystal structure of the complex between a biologically active Ni(II)-bound DtxR(C102D) mutant, in which a cysteine is replaced by an aspartate at residue 102, and a 33-base-pair DNA segment containing the toxin operator toxO. This structure shows that DNA interacts with two dimeric repressor proteins bound to opposite sides of the tox operator. We propose that a metal-ion-induced helix-to-coil structural transition in the amino-terminal region of the protein is partly responsible for the unique mode of repressor activation by transition metal ions. Structure of the metal-ion-activated diphtheria toxin repressor/tox operator complex.,White A, Ding X, vanderSpek JC, Murphy JR, Ringe D Nature. 1998 Jul 30;394(6692):502-6. PMID:9697776 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Diphtheria toxin repressor

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