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Pandey SK, Melichercik M, Řeha D, Ettrich RH, Carey J. Conserved Dynamic Mechanism of Allosteric Response to L-arg in Divergent Bacterial Arginine Repressors. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25092247. [PMID: 32397647 PMCID: PMC7248756 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25092247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Hexameric arginine repressor, ArgR, is the feedback regulator of bacterial L-arginine regulons, and sensor of L-arg that controls transcription of genes for its synthesis and catabolism. Although ArgR function, as well as its secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures, is essentially the same in E. coli and B. subtilis, the two proteins differ significantly in sequence, including residues implicated in the response to L-arg. Molecular dynamics simulations are used here to evaluate the behavior of intact B. subtilis ArgR with and without L-arg, and are compared with prior MD results for a domain fragment of E. coli ArgR. Relative to its crystal structure, B. subtilis ArgR in absence of L-arg undergoes a large-scale rotational shift of its trimeric subassemblies that is very similar to that observed in the E. coli protein, but the residues driving rotation have distinct secondary and tertiary structural locations, and a key residue that drives rotation in E. coli is missing in B. subtilis. The similarity of trimer rotation despite different driving residues suggests that a rotational shift between trimers is integral to ArgR function. This conclusion is supported by phylogenetic analysis of distant ArgR homologs reported here that indicates at least three major groups characterized by distinct sequence motifs but predicted to undergo a common rotational transition. The dynamic consequences of L-arg binding for transcriptional activation of intact ArgR are evaluated here for the first time in two-microsecond simulations of B. subtilis ArgR. L-arg binding to intact B. subtilis ArgR causes a significant further shift in the angle of rotation between trimers that causes the N-terminal DNA-binding domains lose their interactions with the C-terminal domains, and is likely the first step toward adopting DNA-binding-competent conformations. The results aid interpretation of crystal structures of ArgR and ArgR-DNA complexes.
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- Saurabh Kumar Pandey
- Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37333 Nove Hrady, Czechia; (S.K.P.); (M.M.); (D.Ř.)
- Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia
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- Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37333 Nove Hrady, Czechia; (S.K.P.); (M.M.); (D.Ř.)
- Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37333 Nove Hrady, Czechia; (S.K.P.); (M.M.); (D.Ř.)
- Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia
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- Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37333 Nove Hrady, Czechia; (S.K.P.); (M.M.); (D.Ř.)
- College of Biomedical Sciences, Larkin University, Miami, FL 33169, USA
- Department of Cellular Biology & Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
- Correspondence: (R.H.E.); (J.C.); Tel.: +1-954-682-8347 (R.H.E.); +1-609-258-1631 (J.C.)
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- Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 37333 Nove Hrady, Czechia; (S.K.P.); (M.M.); (D.Ř.)
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- Correspondence: (R.H.E.); (J.C.); Tel.: +1-954-682-8347 (R.H.E.); +1-609-258-1631 (J.C.)
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Mariutti RB, Hernández-González JE, Nascimento AFZ, de Morais MAB, Murakami MT, Carareto CMA, Arni RK. A single P115Q mutation modulates specificity in the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis arginine repressor. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129597. [PMID: 32156582 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The arginine repressor (ArgR) regulates the expression of genes involved in arginine biosynthesis. Upon attaining a threshold concentration of arginine in the cytoplasm, the trimeric C-terminal domain of ArgR binds three arginines in a shallow surface cleft and subsequently hexamerizes forming a dimer of trimers containing six Arg co-repressor molecules which are buried at the subunit interfaces. The N-terminal domains of this complex bind to the DNA promoter thereby interrupting the transcription of the genes related to Arg biosynthesis. The crystal structures of the wild type and mutant Pro115Gln ArgR from Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis determined at 1.7 Å demonstrate that a single amino acid substitution switches co-repressor specificity from Tyr to Arg. Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the first step, i.e., the binding of the co-repressor, occurs in the trimeric state and that Pro115Gln ArgR preferentially binds Arg. It was also shown that, in Pro115 ArgR hexamers, the concomitant binding of sodium ions shifts selectivity to Tyr. Structural data combined with phylogenetic analyses of ArgR from C. pseudotuberculosis suggest that substitutions in the binding pocket at position 115 may alter its specificity for amino acids and that the length of the protein interdomain linker can provide further functional flexibility. These results support the existence of alternative ArgR regulatory mechanisms in this pathogenic bacterium.
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- Ricardo B Mariutti
- Multiuser Center for Biomolecular Innovation, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Evolution IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Multiuser Center for Biomolecular Innovation, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil; Department of Physics, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil
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Regulation of arginine biosynthesis, catabolism and transport in Escherichia coli. Amino Acids 2019; 51:1103-1127. [DOI: 10.1007/s00726-019-02757-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Botas A, Pérez-Redondo R, Rodríguez-García A, Álvarez-Álvarez R, Yagüe P, Manteca A, Liras P. ArgR of Streptomyces coelicolor Is a Pleiotropic Transcriptional Regulator: Effect on the Transcriptome, Antibiotic Production, and Differentiation in Liquid Cultures. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:361. [PMID: 29545785 PMCID: PMC5839063 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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ArgR is a well-characterized transcriptional repressor controlling the expression of arginine and pyrimidine biosynthetic genes in bacteria. In this work, the biological role of Streptomyces coelicolor ArgR was analyzed by comparing the transcriptomes of S. coelicolor ΔargR and its parental strain, S. coelicolor M145, at five different times over a 66-h period. The effect of S. coelicolor ArgR was more widespread than that of the orthologous protein of Escherichia coli, affecting the expression of 1544 genes along the microarray time series. This S. coelicolor regulator repressed the expression of arginine and pyrimidine biosynthetic genes, but it also modulated the expression of genes not previously described to be regulated by ArgR: genes involved in nitrogen metabolism and nitrate utilization; the act, red, and cpk genes for antibiotic production; genes for the synthesis of the osmotic stress protector ectoine; genes related to hydrophobic cover formation and sporulation (chaplins, rodlins, ramR, and whi genes); all the cwg genes encoding proteins for glycan cell wall biosynthesis; and genes involved in gas vesicle formation. Many of these genes contain ARG boxes for ArgR binding. ArgR binding to seven new ARG boxes, located upstream or near the ectA-ectB, afsS, afsR, glnR, and redH genes, was tested by DNA band-shift assays. These data and those of previously assayed fragments permitted the construction of an improved model of the ArgR binding site. Interestingly, the overexpression of sporulation genes observed in the ΔargR mutant in our culture conditions correlated with a sporulation-like process, an uncommon phenotype.
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- Alma Botas
- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de León, León, Spain.,Instituto de Biotecnología de León, León, Spain
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de León, León, Spain.,Instituto de Biotecnología de León, León, Spain
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Funcional e IUOPA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Funcional e IUOPA, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de León, León, Spain
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Mariutti RB, Ullah A, Araujo GC, Murakami MT, Arni RK. Tyrosine binding and promiscuity in the arginine repressor from the pathogenic bacterium Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2016; 475:350-5. [PMID: 27233609 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.05.091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The arginine repressor (ArgR) regulates arginine biosynthesis in a number of microorganisms and consists of two domains interlinked by a short peptide; the N-terminal domain is involved in DNA binding and the C-terminal domain binds arginine and forms a hexamer made-up of a dimer of trimers. The crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of ArgR from the pathogenic Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis determined at 1.9 Å resolution contains a tightly bound tyrosine at the arginine-binding site indicating hitherto unobserved promiscuity. Structural analysis of the binding pocket displays clear molecular adaptations to accommodate tyrosine binding suggesting the possible existence of an alternative regulatory process in this pathogenic bacterium.
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- Ricardo Barros Mariutti
- Multiuser Center for Biomolecular Innovation, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brazil.
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- Multiuser Center for Biomolecular Innovation, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brazil; Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan
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- Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), National Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-100, Brazil
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- Multiuser Center for Biomolecular Innovation, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brazil; Department of Physics, IBILCE/UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brazil.
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Vaquero M, Rovira L, Vidal-Ferran A. Supramolecularly fine-regulated enantioselective catalysts. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:11038-51. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cc04474c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The use of supramolecular interactions in catalysis has undergone major growth in the last decade and has contributed to the major advances achieved in the field of enantioselective catalysis.
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- Mónica Vaquero
- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) & The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- 43007 Tarragona
- Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) & The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- 43007 Tarragona
- Spain
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- Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) & The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- 43007 Tarragona
- Spain
- ICREA
- 08010 Barcelona
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Early investigations on arginine biosynthesis brought to light basic features of metabolic regulation. The most significant advances of the last 10 to 15 years concern the arginine repressor, its structure and mode of action in both E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the sequence analysis of all arg structural genes in E. coli and Salmonella typhimurium, the resulting evolutionary inferences, and the dual regulation of the carAB operon. This review provides an overall picture of the pathways, their interconnections, the regulatory circuits involved, and the resulting interferences between arginine and polyamine biosynthesis. Carbamoylphosphate is a precursor common to arginine and the pyrimidines. In both Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it is produced by a single synthetase, carbamoylphosphate synthetase (CPSase), with glutamine as the physiological amino group donor. This situation contrasts with the existence of separate enzymes specific for arginine and pyrimidine biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis and fungi. Polyamine biosynthesis has been particularly well studied in E. coli, and the cognate genes have been identified in the Salmonella genome as well, including those involved in transport functions. The review summarizes what is known about the enzymes involved in the arginine pathway of E. coli and S. enterica serovar Typhimurium; homologous genes were identified in both organisms, except argF (encoding a supplementary OTCase), which is lacking in Salmonella. Several examples of putative enzyme recruitment (homologous enzymes performing analogous functions) are also presented.
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Cho S, Cho YB, Kang TJ, Kim SC, Palsson B, Cho BK. The architecture of ArgR-DNA complexes at the genome-scale in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:3079-88. [PMID: 25735747 PMCID: PMC4381063 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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DNA-binding motifs that are recognized by transcription factors (TFs) have been well studied; however, challenges remain in determining the in vivo architecture of TF-DNA complexes on a genome-scale. Here, we determined the in vivo architecture of Escherichia coli arginine repressor (ArgR)-DNA complexes using high-throughput sequencing of exonuclease-treated chromatin-immunoprecipitated DNA (ChIP-exo). The ChIP-exo has a unique peak-pair pattern indicating 5′ and 3′ ends of ArgR-binding region. We identified 62 ArgR-binding loci, which were classified into three groups, comprising single, double and triple peak-pairs. Each peak-pair has a unique 93 base pair (bp)-long (±2 bp) ArgR-binding sequence containing two ARG boxes (39 bp) and residual sequences. Moreover, the three ArgR-binding modes defined by the position of the two ARG boxes indicate that DNA bends centered between the pair of ARG boxes facilitate the non-specific contacts between ArgR subunits and the residual sequences. Additionally, our approach may also reveal other fundamental structural features of TF-DNA interactions that have implications for studying genome-scale transcriptional regulatory networks.
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- Suhyung Cho
- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul 100-715, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Hørsholm, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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Saha I, Lee JH, Hwang H, Kim TS, Lee CH. Remarkably selective, non-linear allosteric regulation of anion binding by a tetracationic calix[4]pyrrole homodimer. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 51:5679-82. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cc00487j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A covalently coupled, dimeric tetra-cationic calix[4]pyrrole homodimer bearing anthracene linkers displayed distinctive cooperativity and fluoride selectivity with large positive allosterism.
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- Indrajit Saha
- Department of Chemistry
- Kangwon National University
- Chun Cheon 200-701
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Kangwon National University
- Chun Cheon 200-701
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Kangwon National University
- Chun Cheon 200-701
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry Hallym University
- Chun Cheon
- 200-701 Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Kangwon National University
- Chun Cheon 200-701
- Korea
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Pandey SK, Řeha D, Zayats V, Melichercik M, Carey J, Ettrich R. Binding-competent states for L-arginine in E. coli arginine repressor apoprotein. J Mol Model 2014; 20:2330. [PMID: 24952066 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2330-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2013] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Arginine repressor of E. coli is a multifunctional hexameric protein that provides feedback regulation of arginine metabolism upon activation by the negatively cooperative binding of L-arginine. Interpretation of this complex system requires an understanding of the protein's conformational landscape. The ~50 kDa hexameric C-terminal domain was studied by 100 ns molecular dynamics simulations in the presence and absence of the six L-arg ligands that bind at the trimer-trimer interface. A rotational shift between trimers followed by rotational oscillation occurs in the production phase of the simulations only when L-arg is absent. Analysis of the system reveals that the degree of rotation is correlated with the number of hydrogen bonds across the trimer interface. The trajectory presents frames with one or more apparently open binding sites into which one L-arg could be docked successfully in three different instances, indicating that a binding-competent state of the system is occasionally sampled. Simulations of the resulting singly-liganded systems reveal for the first time that the binding of one L-arg results in a holoprotein-like conformational distribution.
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- Saurabh Kumar Pandey
- Institute of Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Global Change Research Center, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Zamek 136, CZ-373 33, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
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Mon I, Jose DA, Vidal-Ferran A. Bis(phosphite) Ligands with Distal Regulation: Application in Rhodium-mediated Asymmetric Hydroformylations. Chemistry 2013; 19:2720-5. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201203677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Revised: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Jose DA, Mon I, Fernández-Pérez H, Escudero-Adán EC, Benet-Buchholz J, Vidal-Ferran A. Allosteric P═O-Based Receptors for Dicarboxylic Acids. Org Lett 2011; 13:3632-5. [DOI: 10.1021/ol201277d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- D. Amilan Jose
- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- ICIQ, Institut Català d’Investigació Química, Avda. Països Catalans, 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain, and ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Purification and characterization of an arginine regulatory protein, ArgR, in Corynebacterium glutamicum. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2011; 38:1911-20. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-011-0977-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2010] [Accepted: 04/16/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Strawn R, Stockner T, Melichercik M, Jin L, Xue WF, Carey J, Ettrich R. Synergy of molecular dynamics and isothermal titration calorimetry in studies of allostery. Methods Enzymol 2011; 492:151-88. [PMID: 21333791 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-381268-1.00017-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Despite decades of intensive study, allosteric effects have eluded an intellectually satisfying integrated understanding that includes a description of the reaction coordinate in terms of species distributions of structures and free energy levels in the conformational ensemble. This chapter illustrates a way to fill this gap by interpreting thermodynamic and structural results through the lens of molecular dynamics simulation analysis to link atomic-level detail with global response. In this synergistic approach molecular dynamics forms an integral part of a feedback loop of hypothesis, experimental design, and interpretation that conforms to the scientific method.
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- Rebecca Strawn
- Chemistry Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Interaction of transcriptional repressor ArgR with transcriptional regulator FarR at the argB promoter region in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010; 77:711-8. [PMID: 21115700 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01610-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Corynebacterium glutamicum, the ArgR protein, a transcriptional repressor, affects the expression level of the argB gene through binding to its promoter region. The argB promoter region (positions -77 to -25) has been found by in vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) results and in silico analysis to be important for the DNA binding of ArgR. Proline supplementation prevented the DNA binding of ArgR to the argB promoter region and triggered an increase of the argB mRNA level. Additional mutational analyses of the argB promoter region found nucleotides critical for ArgR binding (G located at position -58, C at position -55, and A at position -41 of the argB promoter) in that region. Another transcriptional repressor, FarR, was also demonstrated to bind to the argB promoter region. This binding was delimited to positions -57 to -77 on the argB promoter. FarR has only one putative binding domain located at positions -57 to -77, but this region exactly overlapped with the binding region located from positions -55 to -77 for the binding of ArgR within the argB promoter; thus, if ArgR bound with the argB promoter first, the binding of FarR was not observed in this region. However, if FarR bound to the binding domain located at positions -57 to -77 first, ArgR could bind other binding sites located at positions -49 to -25 within the argB promoter. Finally, this study suggests that ArgR can affect FarR binding to the argB promoter region, as protein binding is dominated by the protein most able to do so.
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Sénéchal H, Delesques J, Szatmari G. Escherichia coli ArgR mutants defective in cer/Xer recombination, but not in DNA binding. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2010; 305:162-9. [PMID: 20659168 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01921.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli arginine repressor (ArgR) is an L-arginine-dependent DNA-binding protein that controls the expression of the arginine biosynthetic genes and is required as an accessory factor for Xer site-specific recombination at cer and related recombination sites in plasmids. We used the technique of pentapeptide scanning mutagenesis to isolate a series of ArgR mutants that were considerably reduced in cer recombination, but were still able to repress an argA::lacZ fusion. DNA sequence analysis showed that all of the mutants mapped to the same nucleotide, resulting in a five amino acid insertion between residues 149 and 150 of ArgR, corresponding to the end of the alpha6 helix. A truncated ArgR containing a stop codon at residue 150 displayed the same phenotype as the protein with the five amino acid insertion, and both mutants displayed sequence-specific DNA-binding activity that was L-arginine dependent. These results show that the C-terminus of ArgR is more important in cer/Xer site-specific recombination than in DNA binding.
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- Hélène Sénéchal
- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Fulde M, Willenborg J, de Greeff A, Benga L, Smith HE, Valentin-Weigand P, Goethe R. ArgR is an essential local transcriptional regulator of the arcABC operon in Streptococcus suis and is crucial for biological fitness in an acidic environment. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2010; 157:572-582. [PMID: 20947575 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.043067-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Streptococcus suis is one of the most important pathogens in pigs and can also cause severe infections in humans. Despite its clinical relevance, very little is known about the factors that contribute to its virulence. Recently, we identified a new putative virulence factor in S. suis, the arginine deiminase system (ADS), an arginine catabolic enzyme system encoded by the arcABC operon, which enables S. suis to survive in an acidic environment. In this study, we focused on ArgR, an ADS-associated regulator belonging to the ArgR/AhrC arginine repressor family. Using an argR knockout strain we were able to show that ArgR is essential for arcABC operon expression and necessary for the biological fitness of S. suis. By cDNA expression microarray analyses and quantitative real-time RT-PCR we found that the arcABC operon is the only gene cluster regulated by ArgR, which is in contrast to the situation in many other bacteria. Reporter gene analysis with gfp under the control of the arcABC promoter demonstrated that ArgR is able to activate the arcABC promoter. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays with fragments of the arcABC promoter and recombinant ArgR, and chromatin immunoprecipitation with antibodies directed against ArgR, revealed that ArgR interacts with the arcABC promoter in vitro and in vivo by binding to a region from -147 to -72 bp upstream of the transcriptional start point. Overall, our results show that in S. suis, ArgR is an essential, system-specific transcriptional regulator of the ADS that interacts directly with the arcABC promoter in vivo.
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- Marcus Fulde
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany
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- Animal Sciences Group (ASG), Wageningen UR, PO Box 65, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany
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- Animal Sciences Group (ASG), Wageningen UR, PO Box 65, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, 30173 Hannover, Germany
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Mula S, Elliott K, Harriman A, Ziessel R. Energy Transfer by Way of an Exciplex Intermediate in Flexible Boron Dipyrromethene-Based Allosteric Architectures. J Phys Chem A 2010; 114:10515-22. [DOI: 10.1021/jp106626v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Soumyaditya Mula
- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopies Avancées (LCOSA), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, Université de Strasbourg, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France, and Molecular Photonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bedson Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopies Avancées (LCOSA), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, Université de Strasbourg, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France, and Molecular Photonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bedson Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopies Avancées (LCOSA), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, Université de Strasbourg, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France, and Molecular Photonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bedson Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopies Avancées (LCOSA), Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux, Université de Strasbourg, 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02, France, and Molecular Photonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, Bedson Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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Legionella pneumophila is an intracellular pathogen that infects protozoa in aquatic environments and when inhaled by susceptible human hosts replicates in alveolar macrophages and can result in the often fatal pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease. The ability of L. pneumophila to replicate within host cells requires the establishment of a specialized compartment that evades normal phagolysosome fusion called the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). Elucidation of the biochemical composition of the LCV and the identification of the regulatory signals sensed during intracellular replication are inherently challenging. L-Arginine is a critical nutrient in the metabolism of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. We showed that the L. pneumophila arginine repressor homolog, ArgR, is required for maximal intracellular growth in the unicellular host Acanthamoeba castellanii. In this study, we present evidence that the concentration of L-arginine in the LCV is sensed by ArgR to produce an intracellular transcriptional response. We characterized the L. pneumophila ArgR regulon by global gene expression analysis, identified genes highly affected by ArgR, showed that ArgR repression is dependent upon the presence of L-arginine, and demonstrated that ArgR-regulated genes are derepressed during intracellular growth. Additional targets of ArgR that may account for the argR mutant's intracellular multiplication defect are discussed. These results suggest that L-arginine availability functions as a regulatory signal during Legionella intracellular growth.
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Strawn R, Melichercik M, Green M, Stockner T, Carey J, Ettrich R. Symmetric allosteric mechanism of hexameric Escherichia coli arginine repressor exploits competition between L-arginine ligands and resident arginine residues. PLoS Comput Biol 2010; 6:e1000801. [PMID: 20532206 PMCID: PMC2880562 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2010] [Accepted: 04/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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An elegantly simple and probably ancient molecular mechanism of allostery is described for the Escherichia coli arginine repressor ArgR, the master feedback regulator of transcription in L-arginine metabolism. Molecular dynamics simulations with ArgRC, the hexameric domain that binds L-arginine with negative cooperativity, reveal that conserved arginine and aspartate residues in each ligand-binding pocket promote rotational oscillation of apoArgRC trimers by engagement and release of hydrogen-bonded salt bridges. Binding of exogenous L-arginine displaces resident arginine residues and arrests oscillation, shifting the equilibrium quaternary ensemble and promoting motions that maintain the configurational entropy of the system. A single L-arg ligand is necessary and sufficient to arrest oscillation, and enables formation of a cooperative hydrogen-bond network at the subunit interface. The results are used to construct a free-energy reaction coordinate that accounts for the negative cooperativity and distinctive thermodynamic signature of L-arginine binding detected by calorimetry. The symmetry of the hexamer is maintained as each ligand binds, despite the conceptual asymmetry of partially-liganded states. The results thus offer the first opportunity to describe in structural and thermodynamic terms the symmetric relaxed state predicted by the concerted allostery model of Monod, Wyman, and Changeux, revealing that this state is achieved by exploiting the dynamics of the assembly and the distributed nature of its cohesive free energy. The ArgR example reveals that symmetry can be maintained even when binding sites fill sequentially due to negative cooperativity, which was not anticipated by the Monod, Wyman, and Changeux model. The molecular mechanism identified here neither specifies nor requires a pathway for transmission of the allosteric signal through the protein, and it suggests the possibility that binding of free amino acids was an early innovation in the evolution of allostery.
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- Rebecca Strawn
- Chemistry Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Structure and Function of Proteins, Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
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- Biology Department, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Chemistry Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Structure and Function of Proteins, Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
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Das A, Dey B, Jana AD, Hemming J, Helliwell M, Lee HM, Hsiao TH, Suresh E, Colacio E, Choudhury SR, Mukhopadhyay S. Effect of protonated aminopyridines on the structural divergences of M(II)–malonate complexes (M=Cu, Ni, Co). Polyhedron 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2009.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Proline reduces the binding of transcriptional regulator ArgR to upstream of argB in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2009; 86:235-42. [PMID: 19798496 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-009-2264-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2009] [Revised: 09/11/2009] [Accepted: 09/14/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In this study, the ArgR-binding sites on the arg operon Corynbebacterium glutamicum were characterized by in vivo chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP). In addition, the ArgR-binding affinity in the presence of glutamate, proline, or arginine was examined to get further information on expression control. The ChIP assay showed that the ArgR protein binds specifically to the upstream regions of argC, argB, argF, and argG. Upon proline supplementation, ArgR-binding affinity was significantly reduced upstream of argB, resulting in increased ornithine production. In contrast, there was no change in the binding affinity of ArgR to the upstream regions of argC, argF, argG, or argB following the addition of glutamate and arginine. These results suggest that the upstream region of argB on the arg operon plays an important role in interacting with ArgR under proline-supplemented conditions and that proline causes an increase in the endogenous level of ornithine by reducing the binding affinity of ArgR to the upstream region of argB.
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Lee SY, Kim YH, Min J. The effect of ArgR-DNA binding affinity on ornithine production in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Curr Microbiol 2009; 59:483-8. [PMID: 19688381 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-009-9467-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2008] [Revised: 05/07/2009] [Accepted: 07/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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pEMBTL-SY1, which can over produce the ArgR protein in Corynebacterium glutamicum, was constructed. The DNA-binding affinity of ArgR was analyzed using a Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay. The level of ArgR protein expression in the plasmid-carrying C. glutamicum (pEMBTL-SY1) was higher than that in the wild-type strain. On the other hand, there was no increase in the DNA-binding affinity of ArgR on the upstream of argB and the level of ornithine production. The DNA-binding affinity of ArgR on the arg operon and the level of ornithine production in the presence of three metabolites, ornithine, arginine, and proline, were examined as feedback controlling effectors in the arginine biosynthesis pathway in C. glutamicum. The ChIP assay showed that the supplemented metabolites altered the ArgR-binding affinity on the upstream of argB, which is consistent with the change in ornithine production. This suggests that the regulation of ornithine biosynthesis by the transcriptional regulator, ArgR, depends on the DNA-binding affinity of the arg operon, which is regulated by the feedback controlling effectors, rather than on the level of ArgR protein expression.
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- Soo Youn Lee
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
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Cherney LT, Cherney MM, Garen CR, James MNG. The structure of the arginine repressor from Mycobacterium tuberculosis bound with its DNA operator and Co-repressor, L-arginine. J Mol Biol 2009; 388:85-97. [PMID: 19265706 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.02.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2008] [Revised: 02/17/2009] [Accepted: 02/20/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The biosynthesis of arginine is an essential function for the metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and for the metabolism of many other microorganisms. The arginine repressor (ArgR) proteins control the transcription of genes encoding the arginine biosynthetic enzymes; they belong to repressors having one of the most intricate oligomerization patterns. Here, we present the crystal structure of the MtbArgR hexamer bound to three copies of the 20 base-pair DNA operator and to the co-repressor, L-arginine, determined to 3.3 A resolution. This is the first ternary structure of an intact hexameric ArgR in complex with its DNA operator. The structure reported here is very different from the suggested models of the ternary ArgR-DNA complexes; it has revealed the sophisticated symmetry of the complex and the presence of two remarkably different protomer conformations, folded and extended. Both features provide flexibility to DNA binding and are important for understanding the detailed function of ArgRs. Two of the 20 base-pair DNA operators align in a unified double-helical structure, suggesting the possible presence of a double ARG box in the promoter region of the Mtb arginine operon. Two pairs of protomers bind to the unified double ARG box so that the two folded protomers bind to the central half-sites of the double ARG box, whereas the two extended protomers bind to the remote half-sites. The protomers of the third pair bound to the single DNA operator also have a folded and an extended conformation. A probable mechanism for arginine repression is suggested on the basis of this structure.
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- Leonid T Cherney
- Group in Protein Structure and Function, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7
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SigmaS controls multiple pathways associated with intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila. J Bacteriol 2009; 191:2461-73. [PMID: 19218380 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01578-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of the severe and potentially fatal pneumonia Legionnaires' disease. L. pneumophila is able to replicate within macrophages and protozoa by establishing a replicative compartment in a process that requires the Icm/Dot type IVB secretion system. The signals and regulatory pathways required for Legionella infection and intracellular replication are poorly understood. Mutation of the rpoS gene, which encodes sigma(S), does not affect growth in rich medium but severely decreases L. pneumophila intracellular multiplication within protozoan hosts. To gain insight into the intracellular multiplication defect of an rpoS mutant, we examined its pattern of gene expression during exponential and postexponential growth. We found that sigma(S) affects distinct groups of genes that contribute to Legionella intracellular multiplication. We demonstrate that rpoS mutants have a functional Icm/Dot system yet are defective for the expression of many genes encoding Icm/Dot-translocated substrates. We also show that sigma(S) affects the transcription of the cpxR and pmrA genes, which encode two-component response regulators that directly affect the transcription of Icm/Dot substrates. Our characterization of the L. pneumophila small RNA csrB homologs, rsmY and rsmZ, introduces a link between sigma(S) and the posttranscriptional regulator CsrA. We analyzed the network of sigma(S)-controlled genes by mutational analysis of transcriptional regulators affected by sigma(S). One of these, encoding the L. pneumophila arginine repressor homolog gene, argR, is required for maximal intracellular growth in amoebae. These data show that sigma(S) is a key regulator of multiple pathways required for L. pneumophila intracellular multiplication.
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Garnett JA, Marincs F, Baumberg S, Stockley PG, Phillips SE. Structure and Function of the Arginine Repressor-Operator Complex from Bacillus subtilis. J Mol Biol 2008; 379:284-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2007] [Revised: 02/29/2008] [Accepted: 03/03/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ikeda M, Takeuchi M, Sugasaki A, Robertson A, Imada T, Shinkai S. Strong Positive Allosterism which Appears in Molecular Recognition with Cerium(IV) Double Decker Porphyrins: Correlation between the Number of Binding Sites and Hill Coefficients. Supramol Chem 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/10610270008029453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Masato Ikeda
- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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- a Department of Chemistry & Biochemisry , Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University , Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan
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Samalíková M, Carey J, Grandori R. Assembly of the hexameric Escherichia coli arginine repressor investigated by nano-electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2005; 19:2549-52. [PMID: 16106344 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The arginine repressor (ArgR) from Escherichia coli regulates genes for L-arginine metabolism and is a required recombination factor for colE1 plasmid replication. Both functions require binding of L-arginine to the protein. In this work, nano-electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (nano-ESI-TOFMS) is used to study conformational and oligomeric states of intact ArgR and its isolated structural domains. In agreement with X-ray diffraction studies, it is shown that ArgR oligomerizes to form hexamers in both the presence and absence of L-arginine, and the basic unit of oligomerization appears to be the trimer. Higher-order assembly into dodecamers is also detected. The isolated C-terminal domain is found to associate into trimers and hexamers whereas the N-terminal domain is detected in its monomeric form. The observed species distributions suggest a role for the N-terminal domain in hexamer stabilization.
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- Mária Samalíková
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria
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Jin L, Xue WF, Fukayama JW, Yetter J, Pickering M, Carey J. Asymmetric allosteric activation of the symmetric ArgR hexamer. J Mol Biol 2004; 346:43-56. [PMID: 15663926 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2004] [Revised: 11/10/2004] [Accepted: 11/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hexameric arginine repressor, ArgR, bound to L-arginine serves both as the master transcriptional repressor/activator at diverse regulons in a wide range of bacteria and as a required cofactor for resolution of ColE1 plasmid multimers. Multifunctional ArgR is thus unusual in possessing features of specific gene regulators, global regulators, and non-specific gene organizers; its closest functional analog is probably CAP, the cyclic AMP receptor/activator protein. Isothermal titration calorimetry, surface plasmon resonance, and proteolysis indicate that binding of a single L-argine [corrected] per ArgR hexamer triggers a global conformation [corrected] change and resets the affinities of the remaining five sites, making them 100-fold weaker. The analysis suggests a novel thermodynamic signature for this mechanism of activation.
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- Lihua Jin
- Chemistry Department, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
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Griswold A, Chen YYM, Snyder JA, Burne RA. Characterization of the arginine deiminase operon of Streptococcus rattus FA-1. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:1321-7. [PMID: 15006749 PMCID: PMC368411 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.3.1321-1327.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The arginine deiminase system (ADS) is of critical importance in oral biofilm pH homeostasis and microbial ecology. The ADS consists of three enzymes. Arginine is hydrolyzed by AD (ArcA) to generate citrulline and ammonia. Citrulline is then converted to ornithine and carbamoylphosphate via ornithine carbamoyltransferase (ArcB). Finally, carbamate kinase (ArcC) transfers a phosphate from carbamoylphosphate to ADP, yielding ATP. Ammonia production from this pathway protects bacteria from lethal acidification, and ATP production provides a source of energy for the cells. The purpose of this study was to initiate a characterization of the arc operon of Streptococcus rattus, the least cariogenic and sole ADS-positive member of the mutans streptococci. Using an arcB gene fragment obtained by degenerate PCRs, the FA-1 arc operon was identified in subgenomic DNA libraries and sequence analysis was performed. Results showed that the genes encoding the AD pathway in S. rattus FA-1 are organized as an arcABCDT-adiR operon gene cluster, including the enzymes of the pathway, an arginine-ornithine antiporter (ArcD) and a putative regulatory protein (AdiR). The arcA transcriptional start site was identified by primer extension, and a sigma(70)-like promoter was mapped 5' to arcA. Reverse transcriptase PCR was used to establish that arcABCDT could be cotranscribed. Reporter gene fusions and AD assays demonstrated that the operon is regulated by substrate induction and catabolite repression, the latter apparently through a CcpA-dependent pathway.
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- Ann Griswold
- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
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Morin A, Huysveld N, Braun F, Dimova D, Sakanyan V, Charlier D. Hyperthermophilic Thermotoga arginine repressor binding to full-length cognate and heterologous arginine operators and to half-site targets. J Mol Biol 2003; 332:537-53. [PMID: 12963366 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00951-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The degree of sequence conservation of arginine repressor proteins (ArgR) and of the cognate operators (tandem pairs of 18 bp imperfect palindromes, ARG boxes) in evolutionarily distant bacteria is unusually high, and the global mechanism of ArgR-mediated regulation appears to be similar. However, here we demonstrate that the arginine repressor from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana (ArgR(Tn)) exhibits characteristics that clearly distinguish this regulator from the well-studied homologues from Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and B.stearothermophilus. A high-resolution contact map of ArgR(Tn) binding to the operator of the biosynthetic argGHCJBD operon of Thermotoga maritima indicates that ArgR(Tn) establishes all of its strong contacts with a single ARG box-like sequence of the operator only. Protein array and electrophoretic mobility-shift data demonstrate that ArgR(Tn) has a remarkable capacity to bind to arginine operators from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and to single ARG box-bearing targets. Moreover, the overall effect of L-arginine on the apparent K(d) of ArgR(Tn) binding to various cognate and heterologous operator fragments was minor with respect to that observed with diverse bacterial arginine repressors. We demonstrate that this unusual behaviour for an ArgR protein can, to a large extent, be ascribed to the presence of a serine residue at position 107 of ArgR(Tn), instead of the highly conserved glutamine that is involved in arginine binding in the E.coli repressor. Consistent with these results, ArR(Tn) was found to behave as a superrepressor in E.coli, inhibiting growth in minimal medium, even supplemented with arginine, whereas similar constructs bearing the S107Q mutant allele did not inhibit growth. We assume that ArgR(Tn), owing to its broad target specificity and its ability to bind single ARG box sequences, might play a more general regulatory role in Thermotoga
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- Amélie Morin
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, FRE CNRS 2230 Unité Biocatalyse, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, 44322, Nantes, France
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Snapyan M, Lecocq M, Guével L, Arnaud MC, Ghochikyan A, Sakanyan V. Dissecting DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions involved in bacterial transcriptional regulation by a sensitive protein array method combining a near-infrared fluorescence detection. Proteomics 2003; 3:647-57. [PMID: 12748944 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200300390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The protein array methodology is used to study DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions governing gene expression from the Bacillus stearothermophilus PargCo promoter-operator region. Using probes labelled with near-infrared fluorescence dyes with exitation characteristics close to 700 or 800 nm, it is possible to detect signals from proteins (purified or non-purified in Escherichia coli cell extracts) immobilised on a nitrocellulose membrane with a high sensitivity (almost 12 amol of a spotted protein for protein-DNA interactions). Protein array data are confirmed by other methods indicating that molecular interactions of the order 10(-7) M can be monitored with the proposed protein array approach. We show that the PargCo region is a target for binding at least three types of regulatory proteins, ArgR repressors from thermophilic bacteria, the E. coli RNA polymerase alpha subunit and cyclic AMP binding protein CRP. We also demonstrate that the high strength of the PargC promoter is related to an upstream element that binds to the E. coli RNA polymerase alpha subunit.
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- Marina Snapyan
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, FRE-CNRS 2230 Biocatalyse, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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Kueh R, Rahman NA, Merican AF. Computational docking of L-arginine and its structural analogues to C-terminal domain of Escherichia coli arginine repressor protein (ArgRc). J Mol Model 2003; 9:88-98. [PMID: 12707802 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-002-0115-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2002] [Accepted: 11/20/2002] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The arginine repressor (ArgR) of Escherichia coli binds to six L-arginine molecules that act as its co-repressor in order to bind to DNA. The binding of L-arginine molecules as well as its structural analogues is compared by means of computational docking. A grid-based energy evaluation method combined with a Monte Carlo simulated annealing process was used in the automated docking. For all ligands, the docking procedure proposed more than one binding site in the C-terminal domain of ArgR (ArgRc). Interaction patterns of ArgRc with L-arginine were also observed for L-canavanine and L-citrulline. L-lysine and L-homoarginine, on the other hand, were shown to bind poorly at the binding site. Figure A general overview of the sites found from docking the various ligands into ArgRc ( grey ribbons). Red coloured sticks: residues in binding site H that was selected for docking
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- Rowyna Kueh
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ghochikyan A, Karaivanova IM, Lecocq M, Vusio P, Arnaud MC, Snapyan M, Weigel P, Guével L, Buckle M, Sakanyan V. Arginine operator binding by heterologous and chimeric ArgR repressors from Escherichia coli and Bacillus stearothermophilus. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:6602-14. [PMID: 12426349 PMCID: PMC135427 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.23.6602-6614.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2002] [Accepted: 08/27/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Bacillus stearothermophilus ArgR binds efficiently to the Escherichia coli carAB operator, whereas the E. coli repressor binds very poorly to the argCo operator of B. stearothermophilus. In order to elucidate this contradictory behavior between ArgRs, we constructed chimeric proteins by swapping N-terminal DNA-binding and C-terminal oligomerization domains or by exchanging the linker peptide. Chimeras carrying the E. coli DNA-binding domain and the B. stearothermophilus oligomerization domain showed sequence-nonspecific rather than sequence-specific interactions with arg operators. Chimeras carrying the B. stearothermophilus DNA-binding domain and E. coli oligomerization domain exhibited a high DNA-binding affinity for the B. stearothermophilus argCo and E. coli carAB operators and repressed the reporter-gene transcription from the B. stearothermophilus PargCo control region in vitro; arginine had no effect on, and indeed even decreased, their DNA-binding affinity. With the protein array method, we showed that the wild-type B. stearothermophilus ArgR and derivatives of it containing only the exchanged linker from E. coli ArgR or carrying the B. stearothermophilus DNA-binding domain along with the linker and the alpha4 regions were able to bind argCo containing the single Arg box. This binding was weaker than binding to the two-box operator but was no longer arginine dependent. Several lines of observations indicate that the alpha4 helix in the oligomerization domain and the linker peptide can contribute to the recognition of single or double Arg boxes and therefore to the operator DNA-binding specificity in similar but not identical ArgR repressors from two distant bacteria.
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- Anahit Ghochikyan
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, FRE CNRS 2230, Unité Biocatalyse, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, 44322 Nantes. IFR 26, INSERM, 44035 Nantes, France
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Dong Y, Chen YYM, Snyder JA, Burne RA. Isolation and molecular analysis of the gene cluster for the arginine deiminase system from Streptococcus gordonii DL1. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:5549-53. [PMID: 12406748 PMCID: PMC129940 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.11.5549-5553.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The arginine deiminase (AD) system (ADS) is one of two major ammonia-generating pathways in the oral cavity that play important roles in oral biofilm pH homeostasis and oral biofilm ecology. To initiate a study of the Streptococcus gordonii ADS, the ADS gene cluster was isolated from subgenomic DNA libraries of S. gordonii DL1 by using an arcB-specific probe. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed six open reading frames (ORFs) that were arranged contiguously; the first five ORFs were transcribed in the same direction, as an apparent operon, and the sixth was transcribed in the opposite direction. The ORFs were found to share significant homologies and to correspond closely in molecular mass to previously characterized arc genes; thus, they were designated arcA (AD), arcB (ornithine carbamyltransferase), arcC (carbamate kinase), arcD (arginine-ornithine antiporter), arcT (dipeptidase), and arcR (regulator). A putative sigma(70) promoter (ParcA [TTGTGT-N(19)-TAGAAT]) was mapped 5' to arcA by primer extension, and the expression of ParcA was shown to be inducible by arginine and repressible by glucose, in agreement with AD specific activities measured in the wild-type strain. To investigate the function of ArcR in the differential expression of the arc operon, arcR was insertionally inactivated by a KM resistance marker flanked by T4 transcription/translation termination signals, and the expression of ParcA was monitored by primer extension in the wild-type and ArcR-deficient strains. Lower levels of arcA expression, as well as lower levels of AD activity, were consistently observed in the ArcR-deficient strain compared to wild-type cells, regardless of the growth conditions. Thus, ArcR is a transcriptional activator that is required for induction and optimal expression of the S. gordonii ADS gene cluster.
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- Yiqian Dong
- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
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Ikeda M, Tanida T, Takeuchi M, Shinkai S. Allosteric silver(I) ion binding with peripheral pi clefts of a Ce(IV) double decker porphyrin. Org Lett 2000; 2:1803-5. [PMID: 10891162 DOI: 10.1021/ol005807a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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[reaction: see text] A cerium(IV) double decker porphyrin (1) bearing four 4-methoxyphenyl groups was synthesized. Compound 1 shows a positive, homotoropic allosteric effect in metal recognition of Ag(+) ion, and the peripheral pi clefts of 1 act as effective binding sites for Ag(+) ion.
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- M Ikeda
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate school of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Sugasaki A, Ikeda M, Takeuchi M, Koumoto K, Shinkai S. The First Example of Positive Allosterism in an Aqueous Saccharide-Binding System Designed on a Ce(IV) Bis(porphyrinate) Double Decker Scaffold. Tetrahedron 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(00)00395-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Karaivanova IM, Weigel P, Takahashi M, Fort C, Versavaud A, Van Duyne G, Charlier D, Hallet JN, Glansdorff N, Sakanyan V. Mutational analysis of the thermostable arginine repressor from Bacillus stearothermophilus: dissecting residues involved in DNA binding properties. J Mol Biol 1999; 291:843-55. [PMID: 10452892 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Recently the crystal structure of the DNA-unbound form of the full-length hexameric Bacillus stearothermophilus arginine repressor (ArgR) has been resolved, providing a possible explanation for the mechanism of arginine-mediated repressor-operator DNA recognition. In this study we tested some of these functional predictions by performing site-directed mutagenesis of distinct amino acid residues located in two regions, the N-terminal DNA-binding domain and the C-terminal oligomerization domain of ArgR. A total of 15 mutants were probed for their capacity to repress the expression of the reporter argC - lacZ gene fusion in Escherichia coli cells. Substitutions of highly conserved amino acid residues in the alpha2 and alpha3 helices, located in the winged helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif, reduced repression. Loss of DNA-binding capacity was confirmed in vitro for the Ser42Pro mutant which showed the most pronounced effect in vivo. In E. coli, the wild-type B. stearothermophilus ArgR molecule behaves as a super-repressor, since recombinant E. coli host cells bearing B. stearothermophilusargR on a multicopy vector did not grow in selective minimal medium devoid of arginine and grew, albeit weakly, when l -arginine was supplied. All mutants affected in the DNA-binding domain lost this super-repressor behaviour. Replacements of conserved leucine residues at positions 87 and/or 94 in the C-terminal domain by other hydrophobic amino acid residues proved neutral or caused either derepression or stronger super-repression. Substitution of Leu87 by phenylalanine was found to increase the DNA-binding affinity and the protein solubility in the context of a double Leu87Phe/Leu94Val mutant. Structural modifications occasioned by the various amino acid substitutions were confirmed by circular dichroism analysis and structure modelling.
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- I M Karaivanova
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, UPRES Biocatalyse, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, Nantes, Cedex 3, 44322, France
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Holtham CA, Jumel K, Miller CM, Harding SE, Baumberg S, Stockley PG. Probing activation of the prokaryotic arginine transcriptional regulator using chimeric proteins. J Mol Biol 1999; 289:707-27. [PMID: 10369757 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The major transcription factors controlling arginine metabolism in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, ArgR and AhrC, respectively, are homologous multimeric proteins that form l -arginine-dependent DNA-binding complexes capable of repressing transcription of the biosynthetic genes (both), activating transcription of catabolic genes (AhrC only) or facilitating plasmid dimer resolution (both). Multimerisation and l -arginine binding are associated with the C-terminal 70-80 residues; the N-terminal regions contain a winged helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain. We have constructed chimeric genes in which the sequences for the N and C-terminal domains have been swapped. The resultant chimeric proteins and their corresponding native proteins have been analysed for their ability to multimerise and bind DNA operator sites in an L-arginine-dependent fashion. Gel filtration and equilibrium sedimentation analysis are consistent with the formation of hexamers by all four proteins in the presence of L-arginine and at high protein concentrations (>100 nM monomer). The hexamer sedimentation coefficients suggest that there is a reduction in molecular volume upon binding L-arginine, consistent with a conformational change accompanying an allosteric activation of DNA-binding. In the absence of L-arginine or at lower protein concentrations, the hexamers are clearly in rapid equilibrium with smaller subunits, whose dominant species appear to be based on trimers, as expected from the crystal structure of the ArgR C-terminal fragment, with the exception of the ArgR-C chimera, which apparently dissociates into dimers, suggesting that in the intact protein the DNA-binding domains may have a significant dimeric interaction. The hexamer-trimer Kdis in the micromolar range, suggesting that trimers are the principal species at in vivo concentrations.DNA binding by all four proteins has been probed by gel retardation and DNase I footprinting analysis using all three types of naturally occurring operators: biosynthetic sites encompassing two 18 bp ARG boxes separated by 2 bp; biosynthetic sites containing two such boxes and a third 18 bp ARG box at a distance of 100 bp downstream, i.e. within the structural gene; and finally a catabolic operator which contains a single ARG box site. The data show that all four proteins bind to the operators at the expected regions in an L-arginine-dependent fashion. From the apparent affinities of the chimeras for each target site, there is no obvious sequence-specificity associated with the N-terminal domains; rather the data can be interpreted in terms of differential allosteric activation, including DNA binding in the absence of L-arginine.Remarkably, the proteins show apparent "anti-competition" in the presence of excess, specific DNA fragments in gel retardation. This appears to be due to assembly of an activated form of the protein, probably hexamers, on the operator DNA. The data are discussed in terms of the current models for the mode of action of both native proteins.
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- C A Holtham
- N.C.M.H. Unit, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
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Maghnouj A, de Sousa Cabral TF, Stalon V, Vander Wauven C. The arcABDC gene cluster, encoding the arginine deiminase pathway of Bacillus licheniformis, and its activation by the arginine repressor argR. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:6468-75. [PMID: 9851988 PMCID: PMC107747 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.24.6468-6475.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/1998] [Accepted: 10/06/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The arginine deiminase pathway enables Bacillus licheniformis to grow anaerobically on arginine. Both the presence of arginine and anaerobiosis are needed to trigger induction of the pathway. In this study we have cloned and sequenced the arc genes encoding the pathway. They appear clustered in an operon-like structure in the order arcA (arginine deiminase), arcB (ornithine carbamoyltransferase), arcD (putative arginine-ornithine antiporter), arcC (carbamate kinase). It was found that B. licheniformis has an arginine repressor, ArgR, homologous to the B. subtilis arginine repressor AhrC. Mutants affected in argR were isolated. These mutants have lost both repression by arginine of the anabolic ornithine carbamoyltransferase and induction of the arginine deiminase pathway. Electrophoretic band shift experiments and DNase I footprinting revealed that in the presence of arginine, ArgR binds to a site upstream from the arc promoter. The binding site is centered 108 nucleotides upstream from the transcription start point and contains a single Arg box.
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- A Maghnouj
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
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Multicopy plasmids of Escherichia coli are distributed randomly at cell division and, as long as copy number remains high, plasmid-free cells arise only rarely. Copy number variation is minimized by plasmid-encoded control circuits, and the limited data available suggest that deviations are corrected efficiently under most circumstances. However, plasmid multimers confuse control circuits, leading to copy number depression. To make matters worse, multimers out-replicate monomers and accumulate clonally within the culture, creating a subpopulation of cells with a significantly increased rate of plasmid loss. Multimers of natural multicopy plasmids, such as ColE1, are resolved to monomers by a site-specific recombination system (Xer-cer) whose activity is limited to intramolecular recombination. Recombination requires the heterodimeric XerCD recombinase plus two accessory proteins (ArgR and PepA), which activate recombination and prevent intermolecular events. Evidence is accumulating that Xer-cer recombination is relatively slow, and there is a risk that cells might divide before multimer resolution is complete. The Rcd transcript encoded within cer may solve this problem by preventing the division of multimer-containing cells. Working in concert, the triumvirate of copy number control, multimer resolution and cell division control achieve an extremely high fidelity of plasmid maintenance.
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- D Summers
- Department of Genetics, Cambridge, UK.
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Takeuchi M, Imada T, Shinkai S. Stark positiver allosterischer Effekt bei der molekularen Erkennung von Dicarbonsäuren durch einen Cer(IV)-bis[tetrakis(4-pyridyl)porphyrinat]-Doppeldecker. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3757(19980803)110:15<2242::aid-ange2242>3.0.co;2-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Dimers of plasmid ColE1 are converted to monomers by site-specific recombination, a process that requires 240 bp of DNA (cer) and four host-encoded proteins (XerC, XerD, ArgR and PepA). Here, we propose structures for nucleoprotein complexes involved in cer-Xer recombination based upon existing knowledge of the structures of component proteins and computational analyses of protein structure and DNA curvature. We propose that, in the nucleoprotein complex at a single cer site, a PepA hexamer acts as an adaptor, connecting the heterodimeric recombinase (XerCD) to an ArgR hexamer. This provides a protein core around which the cer site wraps, its exact path being defined by strong sequence-specific interactions with ArgR and XerCD, weak interactions with PepA and sequence-dependent flexibility of cer. The initial association of single-site complexes (pairing) is proposed to occur via an ArgR-PepA interaction. Pairing between sites in a plasmid dimer is stabilized by DNA supercoiling and is followed by a structural isomerization to form a recombination-proficient synaptic complex. We propose that paired structures formed between sites in trans are too short-lived to permit synaptic complex formation. There is thus an energetic barrier to inappropriate recombination reactions. Our proposals are consistent with a wide range of experimental observations.
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- T C Hodgman
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
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Niersbach H, Lin R, Van Duyne GD, Maas WK. A superrepressor mutant of the arginine repressor with a correctly predicted alteration of ligand binding specificity. J Mol Biol 1998; 279:753-60. [PMID: 9642058 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Arginine biosynthesis in Escherichia coli is negatively regulated by the hexameric repressor protein ArgR and the corepressor L-arginine. L-Arginine binds to ArgR in the C-terminal domain of the repressor. Binding to operator DNA occurs in the N-terminal domain. The molecular structures of both domains have recently been elucidated. The known stereochemistry of the arginine binding pocket was used for the rational design of a mutant ArgR with altered ligand specificity. Our prediction was that a replacement of Asp128 by asparagine would preferentially lead to the binding of L-citrulline, rather than L-arginine. The D128N mutant was constructed and was shown to fulfill our expectation by several experimental approaches. By isothermal titration calorimetry it was found to bind L-citrulline much more strongly than L-arginine, in contrast to wild-type ArgR. Exchange between the mutant trimers of the hexamer was inhibited by L-citrulline, as it is by L-arginine in the wild-type. The mutant protein was precipitated by L-citrulline but not by L-arginine, whereas the reverse is true for the wild-type protein. Demonstration of a corepressor action was, however, precluded by the superrepressor effect of the D128N mutation by itself. The mutant protein, in the absence of L-citrulline or L-arginine is as strong a repressor as the wild-type protein in the presence of L-arginine. We discuss two possible mechanisms, in terms of the known domain structures that could explain our observations.
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- H Niersbach
- Department of Microbiology, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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Savchenko A, Weigel P, Dimova D, Lecocq M, Sakanyan V. The Bacillus stearothermophilus argCJBD operon harbours a strong promoter as evaluated in Escherichia coli cells. Gene 1998; 212:167-77. [PMID: 9611259 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(98)00174-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We have shown that the B. stearothermophilus argCJBD genes form a single operon. In B. stearothermophilus, a specific repressor governs operon expression by binding to the argCo operator site overlapping the Parg promoter sequence (Dion et al., 1997). Therefore, the enzymatic and transcriptional analyses performed in this work did not reflect the potential strength of Parg in the native host. For evaluation of the Parg promoter strength, E. coli was used as a host since its own ArgR repressor does not interact with the B. stearothermophilus heterologous operator. Parg-promoted argC gene expression dramatically increased, reaching up to 38% of the total protein in E. coli cells. An AT-rich sequence upstream of a -35 site of Parg was found to be indispensable for the promoter strength. Plasmids carrying the B. stearothermophilus argCJBD operon linked with its Parg/argCo region were unstable in E. coli. Stabilization of plasmids was achieved by repression of B. stearothermophilus arg genes through the action of the B. subtilis AhrC repressor.
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- A Savchenko
- Unité de Recherche sur la Biocatalyse, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie, Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes, 2, rue de la Houssinière, F-44322, Nantes, Cedex 03, France
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Wang H, Glansdorff N, Charlier D. The arginine repressor of Escherichia coli K-12 makes direct contacts to minor and major groove determinants of the operators. J Mol Biol 1998; 277:805-24. [PMID: 9545374 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In order to gain further insight into the molecular mechanism of arginine-dependent operator recognition by the hexameric Escherichia coli arginine repressor we have probed protein-DNA interactions in vitro and in vivo. We have extensively applied the chemical modification-protection and premodification-interference approach to two operators, the natural operator overlapping the P2 promoter of the carAB operon and a fully symmetrical consensus sequence. Backbone contacts were revealed by hydroxyl radical footprinting and phosphate ethylation interference. Base-specific contacts to purines and pyrimidines were revealed by methylation protection and premodification interference, KMnO4 and NH2OH.HCl-specific modification of thymine and cytosine residues, base-removal (depurination and depyrimidation), and base substitution (uracil and inosine). Additional information on the groove specificity of repressor binding was obtained by small ligand binding interference (distamycin and methyl green). In vivo, we measured the effects on the repressibility of 24 single base-pair substitutions obtained by saturation mutagenesis of half an Arg box in the carAB operator. The results of these experiments point to the conclusion that a hexameric arginine repressor molecule covers four turns of the helix, makes base-specific contacts to at least one guanine (G4 or G4') and two thymine (T3, T13', or T3', T13) residues in each one of four consecutive major grooves on one face of the helix and with four A-T/T-A base-pairs, comprising the adenine residues A9, 9', 12, 12' and the thymine residues T10, 10', 11, 11', in the two outermost minor grooves of the operator, on the very same face of the DNA molecule. The hydrophobic 5-methyl groups of four thymine residues (T3, 3', 13, 13') in each Arg box contribute to major groove-specific recognition via hydrophobic and/or van der Waals interactions. The importance of minor groove contacts was further supported by the drastic effect of distamycin binding interference. In vivo, the most pronounced drops in repressibility were occasioned by mutations at positions 10 (A-->G or C), 11 (T-->A or G) and 12 (A-->G, T or C).
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- H Wang
- Erfelijkheidsleer en Microbiologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1-av. E. Gryson, Brussels, B-1070, Belgium
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Sunnerhagen M, Nilges M, Otting G, Carey J. Solution structure of the DNA-binding domain and model for the complex of multifunctional hexameric arginine repressor with DNA. NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 1997; 4:819-26. [PMID: 9334747 DOI: 10.1038/nsb1097-819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The structure of the monomeric DNA-binding domain of the Escherichia coli arginine repressor, ArgR, determined by NMR spectroscopy, shows structural homology to the winged helix-turn-helix (wHTH) family, a motif found in a diverse class of proteins including both gene regulators and gene organizers from prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Biochemical data on DNA binding by intact ArgR are used as constraints to position the domain on its DNA target and to derive a model for the hexamer-DNA complex using the known structure of the L-arginine-binding domain. The structural independence of the wHTH fold may be important for multimeric DNA-binding proteins that contact extended DNA regions with imperfect match to consensus sequences, a feature of many wHTH-domain proteins.
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- M Sunnerhagen
- Karolinska Institute, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden
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