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''' | ==Structure of GS-TnrA complex== | ||
<StructureSection load='4s0r' size='340' side='right' caption='[[4s0r]], [[Resolution|resolution]] 3.50Å' scene=''> | |||
== Structural highlights == | |||
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[4s0r]] is a 28 chain structure. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=4S0R OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4S0R FirstGlance]. <br> | |||
</td></tr><tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><scene name='pdbligand=GLN:GLUTAMINE'>GLN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MG:MAGNESIUM+ION'>MG</scene></td></tr> | |||
<tr id='activity'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Activity:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate--ammonia_ligase Glutamate--ammonia ligase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=6.3.1.2 6.3.1.2] </span></td></tr> | |||
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4s0r FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=4s0r OCA], [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=4s0r RCSB], [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/4s0r PDBsum]</span></td></tr> | |||
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed == | |||
All cells must sense and adapt to changing nutrient availability. However, detailed molecular mechanisms coordinating such regulatory pathways remain poorly understood. In Bacillus subtilis, nitrogen homeostasis is controlled by a unique circuitry composed of the regulator TnrA, which is deactivated by feedback-inhibited glutamine synthetase (GS) during nitrogen excess and stabilized by GlnK upon nitrogen depletion, and the repressor GlnR. Here we describe a complete molecular dissection of this network. TnrA and GlnR, the global nitrogen homeostatic transcription regulators, are revealed as founders of a new structural family of dimeric DNA-binding proteins with C-terminal, flexible, effector-binding sensors that modulate their dimerization. Remarkably, the TnrA sensor domains insert into GS intersubunit catalytic pores, destabilizing the TnrA dimer and causing an unprecedented GS dodecamer-to-tetradecamer conversion, which concomitantly deactivates GS. In contrast, each subunit of the GlnK trimer "templates" active TnrA dimers. Unlike TnrA, GlnR sensors mediate an autoinhibitory dimer-destabilizing interaction alleviated by GS, which acts as a GlnR chaperone. Thus, these studies unveil heretofore unseen mechanisms by which inducible sensor domains drive metabolic reprograming in the model Gram-positive bacterium B. subtilis. | |||
Structures of regulatory machinery reveal novel molecular mechanisms controlling B. subtilis nitrogen homeostasis.,Schumacher MA, Chinnam NB, Cuthbert B, Tonthat NK, Whitfill T Genes Dev. 2015 Feb 15;29(4):451-64. doi: 10.1101/gad.254714.114. PMID:25691471<ref>PMID:25691471</ref> | |||
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br> | |||
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== References == | |||
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</StructureSection> | |||
[[Category: Glutamate--ammonia ligase]] | |||
[[Category: Chinnam, N G]] | |||
[[Category: Cuthbert, B]] | [[Category: Cuthbert, B]] | ||
[[Category: Schumacher, M | [[Category: Schumacher, M A]] | ||
[[Category: Tonthat, N | [[Category: Tonthat, N K]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category: Chaperone]] | ||
[[Category: Glutamine synthesis]] | |||
[[Category: Ligase]] | |||
[[Category: Transcription regulation]] | |||