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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 368, Issue 2, Pages 521-536Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.02.017
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AEC resistance; allosteric regulation; aspartate kinase; crystal structure; site-directed mutagenesis
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Aspartate kinase (AK) catalyzes the first step of the biosynthesis of the aspartic acid family amino acids, and is regulated via feedback inhibition by end-products including Thr and Lys. To elucidate the mechanism of this inhibition, we determined the crystal structure of the regulatory subunit of AK from Corynebacterium glutamicum at 1.58 angstrom resolution in the Thr-binding form, the first crystal structure of the regulatory subunit Of alpha(2)beta(2)-type AK. The regulatory subunit contains two ACT domain motifs per monomer and is arranged as a dimer. Two non-equivalent ACT domains from different chains form an effector-binding unit that binds a single Thr molecule, and the resulting two effector-binding units of the dimer associate perpendicularly in a face-to-face manner. The regulatory subunit is a monomer in the absence of Thr but becomes a dimer by adding Thr. The dimerization is eliminated in mutant AKs with changes in the Thr-binding region, suggesting that the dimerization induced by Thr binding is a key step in the inhibitory mechanism of AK from C. glutamicum. A putative Lysbinding site and the inhibitory mechanism of CgAK are discussed. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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