7dvu

Crystal structure of heme sensor protein PefR in complex with heme and cyanide

spinqualitylabelsall models 7dvu, resolution 2.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.1Å Ligands: CYN, HEM Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed Hemes (iron-porphyrins) are critical for biological processes in all organisms. Hemolytic bacteria survive by acquiring b-type heme from hemoglobin in red blood cells from their animal hosts. These bacteria avoid the cytotoxicity of excess heme during hemolysis by expressing heme-responsive sensor proteins that act as transcriptional factors to regulate the heme efflux system in response to the cellular heme concentration. Here, the underlying regulatory mechanisms were investigated using crystallographic, spectroscopic, and biochemical studies to understand the structural basis of the heme-responsive sensor protein PefR from Streptococcus agalactiae, a causative agent of neonatal life-threatening infections. Structural comparison of heme-free PefR, its complex with a target DNA, and heme-bound PefR revealed that unique heme coordination controls a >20 A structural rearrangement of the DNA binding domains to dissociate PefR from the target DNA. We also found heme-bound PefR stably binds exogenous ligands, including carbon monoxide, a by-product of the heme degradation reaction. Heme controls the structural rearrangement of its sensor protein mediating the hemolytic bacterial survival.,Nishinaga M, Sugimoto H, Nishitani Y, Nagai S, Nagatoishi S, Muraki N, Tosha T, Tsumoto K, Aono S, Shiro Y, Sawai H Commun Biol. 2021 Apr 13;4(1):467. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01987-5. PMID:33850260 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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