Structural highlights
FunctionARGR_BACSU Represses the synthesis of biosynthetic enzymes and activates the arginine catabolism. Controls the transcription of the two operons rocABC and rocDEF. 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 PubMedThe arginine repressor/activator protein (AhrC) from Bacillus subtilis belongs to a large family of multifunctional transcription factors that are involved in the regulation of bacterial arginine metabolism. AhrC interacts with operator sites in the promoters of arginine biosynthetic and catabolic operons, acting as a transcriptional repressor at biosynthetic sites and an activator of transcription at catabolic sites. AhrC is a hexamer of identical subunits, each having two domains. The C-terminal domains form the core of the protein and are involved in oligomerization and L-arginine binding. The N-terminal domains lie on the outside of the compact core and play a role in binding to 18 bp DNA operators called ARG boxes. The C-terminal domain of AhrC has been expressed, purified and characterized, and also crystallized as a hexamer with the bound corepressor L-arginine. Here, the crystal structure refined to 1.95 A is presented. Structure of the C-terminal effector-binding domain of AhrC bound to its corepressor L-arginine.,Garnett JA, Baumberg S, Stockley PG, Phillips SE Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Nov 1;63(Pt, 11):918-21. Epub 2007 Oct 20. PMID:18007040[1] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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