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Background

Solution Studies

Structural highlights

Each AphB comprises an N-terminal (DBD) and a C-terminal regulatory domain (RD).

The tetramer can be described as a dimer of dimers, whereby each identical dimer is composed of two protomers (AB and CD) in different conformations: compact (A and C) and extended (B and D). The compact and extended subunits differ from one another in the angle between the linker helix and the RD, which is 85° in the compact subunits and 150° in the extended subunits (Fig. 1A). The conformational variability in the AphB subunits can be attributed to the flexible loop connecting the linker helix to the regulatory domain.

The tetramer assembles via two distinct dimerization interfaces (Fig. 2A). The N‐terminal dimerization interface (1142 Å2) is primarily made up of an antiparallel coiled‐coil of the two linker helices, held together by hydrophobic, polar and ionic interactions (Fig. 2A, left inset). The C‐terminal dimerization interface (1414 Å2) forms between regulatory domains, which pack against each other in a head‐to‐tail manner (Fig. 2A, right inset). To form the AphB tetramer, each compact subunit interacts with the regulatory domain of one extended subunit and with the linker helix of the other extended subunit (Fig. 2A and B).