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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22492-7
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A-166652]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_166652] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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This passage discusses how diguanylate cyclases synthesising the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP are regulated by sensory input domains and reveals a key step in the activation mechanism.
Diguanylate cyclases synthesising the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP are found to be regulated by a variety of sensory input domains that control the activity of their catalytical GGDEF domain, but how activation proceeds mechanistically is, apart from a few examples, still largely unknown. As part of two-component systems, they are activated by cognate histidine kinases that phosphorylate their Rec input domains. DgcR from Leptospira biflexa is a constitutively dimeric prototype of this class of diguanylate cyclases. Full-length crystal structures reveal that BeF3- pseudo-phosphorylation induces a relative rotation of two rigid halves in the Rec domain. This is coupled to a reorganisation of the dimeric structure with concomitant switching of the coiled-coil linker to an alternative heptad register. Finally, the activated register allows the two substrate-loaded GGDEF domains, which are linked to the end of the coiled-coil via a localised hinge, to move into a catalytically competent dimeric arrangement. Bioinformatic analyses suggest that the binary register switch mechanism is utilised by many diguanylate cyclases with N-terminal coiled-coil linkers. As part of two-component systems, diguanylate cyclases (DGCs) are activated by phosphorylation. Structural and computational analyses of DgcR, a model DGC, reveal the phosphorylation-induced conformational changes and the activation mechanism likely shared by many DGCs with N-terminal coiled-coil linkers.
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