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FEBS JOURNAL
Volume 272, Issue 17, Pages 4487-4496Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04868.x
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allostery; effector specificity; reverse TetR; tetracycline derivatives; Tet repressor
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To learn about the correlation between allostery and ligand binding of the Tet repressor ( TetR) we analyzed the effect of mutations in the DNA reading head - core interface on the effector specific TetR(i2) variant. The same mutations in these subdomains can lead to completely different activities, e. g. the V99G exchange in the wild-type leads to corepression by 4-ddma-atc without altering DNA binding. However, in TetR(i2) it leads to 4-ddma-atc dependent repression in combination with reduced DNA binding in the absence of effector. The thermodynamic analysis of effector binding revealed decreased affinities and positive cooperativity. Thus, mutations in this interface can influence DNA binding as well as effector binding, albeit both ligand binding sites are not in direct contact to these altered residues. This finding represents a novel communication mode of TetR. Thus, allostery may not only operate by the structural change proposed on the basis of the crystal structures.
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