4x1e

Crystal structure of unliganded E. coli transcriptional regulator RutR, W167A mutant

spinqualitylabelsall models 4x1e, resolution 2.40Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4x1e is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli CFT073. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.4Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function RUTR_ECOL6 Master transcription regulator which represses the degradation of pyrimidines (rutABCDEFG) and purines (gcl operon) for maintenance of metabolic balance between pyrimidines and purines. It also regulates the synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides and arginine from glutamine (carAB) and the supply of glutamate (gadABWX) (By similarity). Publication Abstract from PubMed RutR is a member of the large family of TetR transcriptional regulators in Escherichia coli. It was originally discovered as the regulator of the rutABCDEFG operon encoding a novel pathway for pyrimidine utilization, but its highest affinity target is the control region of the carAB operon, encoding carbamoylphosphate synthase. Unlike most other TetR-like regulators, RutR exerts both positive and negative effects on promoter activity. Furthermore, RutR exhibits a very narrow ligand binding specificity, unlike the broad effector specificity that characterizes some of the well-studied multidrug resistance regulators of the family. Here we focus on ligand binding and ligand specificity of RutR. We construct single alanine substitution mutants of amino acid residues of the ligand-binding pocket, study their effect on in vitro DNA binding in absence and presence of potential ligands, and analyse their effect on positive regulation of the carP1 promoter and negative autoregulation in vivo. Although RutR structures have been determined previously, they were deposited in the Protein Data Bank without accompanying publications. All of them have uracil bound in the effector-binding site, representing the inactive form of the regulator. We determined the crystal structure of an unliganded mutant RutR protein and provide a structural basis for the use of uracil as sole effector molecule and the exclusion of the very similar thymine from the ligand-binding pocket. Ligand binding specificity of RutR, a member of the TetR family of transcription regulators in Escherichia coli.,Nguyen Le Minh P, de Cima S, Bervoets I, Maes D, Rubio V, Charlier D FEBS Open Bio. 2015 Jan 28;5:76-84. doi: 10.1016/j.fob.2015.01.002. eCollection, 2015. PMID:25685666 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Tetracycline repressor protein 3D structures Transcriptional activator 3D structures

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