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Recombinant Protein Expression, Crystallization, and Biophysical Studies of a <em>Bacillus</em>-conserved Nucleotide Pyrophosphorylase, BcMazG

To overcome safety restrictions and regulations when studying genes and proteins from true pathogens, their homologues can be studied. Bacillus anthracis ...

Yonsei University

A phenolic acid decarboxylase (padC) regulator, PadR and its homologs proteins belong to the PadR family. Despite the growing numbers of the PadR family members and their various roles in bacteria, such as detoxifications, drug transports and circadian rhythms, biochemical and biophysical studies of the PadR family are very limited. Thus, a ligand-induced regulatory mechanism of the PadR family transcription factors remains to be elucidated. Here, we report a crystal structure of a Bacteroides fragilis PadR-like protein, BF2549 and revealed its interaction with putative operator DNA and ligand molecules. Comparative structural and primary sequence analyses provide a PadR-specific motif that is conserved in the PadR family but deviated from the MarR family. Furthermore, putative ligand binding sites are observed in the BF2549 structure. Finally, a homology-based structure model of BF2549 and 29-mer dsDNA propose regulatory mechanisms of the PadR family in transcriptional derepression.

Structural and functional analysis of BF2549, a PadR-like transcription factor from Bacteroides fragilis.

FliS is a cytoplasmic flagellar chaperone for the flagellin, which polymerizes into filaments outside of the flagellated bacteria. Cytoplasmic interaction between FliS and flagellin is critical to retain the flagellin protein in a monomeric form, which is transported from the cytoplasm through the flagellar export apparatus to the extracellular space for filament assembly. Defects in the FliS protein directly diminish bacterial motility, pathogenicity, and viability. Although the overall structure of FliS is known, structural and mutational studies on FliS from other bacterial species are still required to reveal any unresolved biophysical features of FliS itself or functionally critical residues for flagellin recognition. Here, we present the crystal structure of FliS from Bacillus cereus (BcFliS) at 2.0 Å resolution. FliS possesses a highly dynamic N-terminal region, which is appended to the common four-helix bundle structure. An invariant proline residue (Pro17 in B. cereus FliS) was identified in all known FliS sequences between the N-terminal region and the four-helix bundle. The N-terminal proline residue functions as a helix breaker critical for FliS dimerization and flagellin recognition.

Crystal structure of the flagellar chaperone FliS from Bacillus cereus and an invariant proline critical for FliS dimerization and flagellin recognition.

Choongdeok Lee

Division of Biological Science and Technology

Yonsei University

Recombinant Protein Expression, Crystallization, and Biophysical Studies of a Bacillus-conserved Nucleotide Pyrophosphorylase, BcMazG

Choongdeok Lee

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Yonsei University

Recombinant Protein Expression, Crystallization, and Biophysical Studies of a Bacillus-conserved Nucleotide Pyrophosphorylase, BcMazG

Division of Biological Science and Technology