3g7z

CcdB dimer in complex with two C-terminal CcdA domains

spinqualitylabelsall models 3g7z, resolution 2.35Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3g7z is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli and Escherichia coli K-12. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.351Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function CCDB_ECOLI Toxic component of a toxin-antitoxin (TA) module, functioning in plasmid maintainence. Responsible for the post-segregational killing (PSK) of plasmid-free cells, also referred to as a plasmid addiction system. Half-life of over 2 hours. Cell killing by CcdB is accompanied by filamentation, defects in chromosome and plasmid segregation, defects in cell division, formation of anucleate cells, decreased DNA synthesis and plasmid loss. Interferes with the activity of DNA gyrase, inducing it to form a covalent GyrA-DNA complex that cannot be resolved, thus promoting breakage of plasmid and chromosomal DNA. DNA breakage requires hydrolyzable ATP. Toxicity is inhibited by labile antitoxin CcdA, which blocks the activity of CcdB; CcdA also removes bound CcdB protein from the CcdB-GyrA complex by forming a CcdA-CcdB complex, a process termed rejuvenation. Also acts to inhibit partitioning of the chromosomal DNA. Functions as a transcriptional corepressor for the ccdAB operon, repression also requires CcdA. 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 Toxin-antitoxin modules are small regulatory circuits that ensure survival of bacterial populations under challenging environmental conditions. The ccd toxin-antitoxin module on the F plasmid codes for the toxin CcdB and its antitoxin CcdA. CcdB poisons gyrase while CcdA actively dissociates CcdB:gyrase complexes in a process called rejuvenation. The CcdA:CcdB ratio modulates autorepression of the ccd operon. The mechanisms behind both rejuvenation and regulation of expression are poorly understood. We show that CcdA binds consecutively to two partially overlapping sites on CcdB, which differ in affinity by six orders of magnitude. The first, picomolar affinity interaction triggers a conformational change in CcdB that initiates the dissociation of CcdB:gyrase complexes by an allosteric segmental binding mechanism. The second, micromolar affinity binding event regulates expression of the ccd operon. Both functions of CcdA, rejuvenation and autoregulation, are mechanistically intertwined and depend crucially on the intrinsically disordered nature of the CcdA C-terminal domain. Rejuvenation of CcdB-poisoned gyrase by an intrinsically disordered protein domain.,De Jonge N, Garcia-Pino A, Buts L, Haesaerts S, Charlier D, Zangger K, Wyns L, De Greve H, Loris R Mol Cell. 2009 Jul 31;35(2):154-63. PMID:19647513 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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