5c8d

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<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[5c8d]] is a 8 chain structure. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=5C8D OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5C8D FirstGlance]. <br>

</td></tr><tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><scene name='pdbligand=5AD:5-DEOXYADENOSINE'>5AD</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=B12:COBALAMIN'>B12</scene></td></tr>

<tr id='related'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Related_structure|Related:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat">[[5c8a|5c8a]], [[5c8e|5c8e]], [[5c8f|5c8f]]</td></tr>

<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-docs/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5c8d FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=5c8d OCA], [http://pdbe.org/5c8d PDBe], [http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=5c8d RCSB], [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/5c8d PDBsum]</span></td></tr>

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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==

Photoreceptor proteins enable organisms to sense and respond to light. The newly discovered CarH-type photoreceptors use a vitamin B12 derivative, adenosylcobalamin, as the light-sensing chromophore to mediate light-dependent gene regulation. Here we present crystal structures of Thermus thermophilus CarH in all three relevant states: in the dark, both free and bound to operator DNA, and after light exposure. These structures provide visualizations of how adenosylcobalamin mediates CarH tetramer formation in the dark, how this tetramer binds to the promoter -35 element to repress transcription, and how light exposure leads to a large-scale conformational change that activates transcription. In addition to the remarkable functional repurposing of adenosylcobalamin from an enzyme cofactor to a light sensor, we find that nature also repurposed two independent protein modules in assembling CarH. These results expand the biological role of vitamin B12 and provide fundamental insight into a new mode of light-dependent gene regulation.

 

Structural basis for gene regulation by a B-dependent photoreceptor.,Jost M, Fernandez-Zapata J, Polanco MC, Ortiz-Guerrero JM, Chen PY, Kang G, Padmanabhan S, Elias-Arnanz M, Drennan CL Nature. 2015 Sep 28. doi: 10.1038/nature14950. PMID:26416754<ref>PMID:26416754</ref>

== References ==

[[Category: Drennan, C L]]

[[Category: Jost, M]]

[[Category: Adenosylcobalamin-binding]]

[[Category: Dna-binding]]

[[Category: Transcriptional regulator]]