Structural highlights
Function
CHEY_ECOLI Involved in the transmission of sensory signals from the chemoreceptors to the flagellar motors. In its active (phosphorylated or acetylated) form, CheY exhibits enhanced binding to a switch component, FliM, at the flagellar motor which induces a change from counterclockwise to clockwise flagellar rotation. Overexpression of CheY in association with MotA and MotB improves motility of a ycgR disruption, suggesting there is an interaction (direct or indirect) between the c-di-GMP-binding flagellar brake protein and the flagellar stator.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The crystal structure at 2.0-A resolution of the complex of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis response regulator CheY and the phosphoacceptor-binding domain (P2) of the kinase CheA is presented. The binding interface involves the fourth and fifth helices and fifth beta-strand of CheY and both helices of P2. Surprisingly, the two heterodimers in the asymmetric unit have two different binding modes involving the same interface, suggesting some flexibility in the binding regions. Significant conformational changes have occurred in CheY compared with previously determined unbound structures. The active site of CheY is exposed by the binding of the kinase domain, possibly to enhance phosphotransfer from CheA to CheY. The conformational changes upon complex formation as well as the observation that there are two different binding modes suggest that the plasticity of CheY is an essential feature of response regulator function.
Two binding modes reveal flexibility in kinase/response regulator interactions in the bacterial chemotaxis pathway.,McEvoy MM, Hausrath AC, Randolph GB, Remington SJ, Dahlquist FW Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Jun 23;95(13):7333-8. PMID:9636149[2]
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References
- ↑ Paul K, Nieto V, Carlquist WC, Blair DF, Harshey RM. The c-di-GMP binding protein YcgR controls flagellar motor direction and speed to affect chemotaxis by a "backstop brake" mechanism. Mol Cell. 2010 Apr 9;38(1):128-39. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.03.001. Epub 2010, Mar 25. PMID:20346719 doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.03.001
- ↑ McEvoy MM, Hausrath AC, Randolph GB, Remington SJ, Dahlquist FW. Two binding modes reveal flexibility in kinase/response regulator interactions in the bacterial chemotaxis pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 Jun 23;95(13):7333-8. PMID:9636149
