期刊
ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
卷 75, 期 -, 页码 437-450出版社
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S205979831900264X
关键词
HcpR; Porphyromonas gingivalis; microbiology; transcriptional regulators; nitric oxide; nitrosative stress; heme proteins; anaerobes
资金
- NIH [1R01DE023304, 1F31DE025158]
Although the HcpR regulator plays a vital step in initiation of the nitrosative stress response in many Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria, the molecular mechanisms that it uses to mediate gas sensing are not well understood. Here, a 2.6 angstrom resolution crystal structure of the N-terminal sensing domain of the anaerobic periodontopathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis HcpR is presented. The protein has classical features of the regulators belonging to the FNR-CRP family and contains a hydrophobic pocket in its N-terminal sensing domain. It is shown that heme bound to HcpR exhibits heme iron as a hexacoordinate system in the absence of nitric oxide (NO) and that upon nitrosylation it transitions to a pentacoordinate system. Finally, small-angle X-ray scattering experiments on full-length HcpR reveal that the C-terminal DNA-binding domain of HcpR has a high degree of interdomain flexibility.
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