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BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages 89-93Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360089
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ATPase associated with various cellular activites (AAA plus ); enhancer-binding protein; sigma(54); small-angle X-ray scattering/wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS); transcriptional regulation
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM069937, R01 GM069937-01A3] Funding Source: Medline
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Bacterial EBPs (enhancer-binding proteins) play crucial roles in regulating cellular responses to environmental changes, in part by providing efficient control over all-dependent gene transcription. The AAA+ (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) domain of the EBPs, when assembled into a ring, uses energy from ATP binding, hydrolysis and product release to remodel the sigma(54) -RNAP (RNA polymerase) holoenzyme so that it can transition from closed to open form at promoter DNA. The assembly, and hence activity, of these ATPases are regulated by many different signal transduction mechanisms. Recent advances in solution scattering techniques, when combined with high-resolution structures and biochemical data, have enabled us to obtain mechanistic insights into the regulation and action of a subset of these or 54 activators: those whose assembly into ring form is controlled by two-component signal transduction. We review (i) experimental considerations of applying the SAXS (small-angle X-ray scattering)/WAXS (wide-angle X-ray scattering) technique, (ii) distinct regulation mechanisms of the AAA+ domains of three EBPs by similar two-component signal transduction receiver domains, and (iii) major conformational changes and correlated sigma(54)-binding activity of an isolated EBP AAA+ domain in the ATP hydrolysis cycle.
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