Structural highlights
Function
[CCPA_BACME] Global transcriptional regulator of carbon catabolite repression (CCR) and carbon catabolite activation (CCA), which ensures optimal energy usage under diverse conditions (By similarity).
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) is one of the most fundamental environmental-sensing mechanisms in bacteria and imparts competitive advantage by establishing priorities in carbon metabolism. In gram-positive bacteria, the master transcription regulator of CCR is CcpA. CcpA is a LacI-GalR family member that employs, as an allosteric corepressor, the phosphoprotein HPr-Ser46-P, which is formed in glucose-replete conditions. Here we report structures of the Bacillus megaterium apoCcpA and a CcpA-(HPr-Ser46-P)-DNA complex. These structures reveal that HPr-Ser46-P mediates a novel two-component allosteric DNA binding activation mechanism that involves both rotation of the CcpA subdomains and relocation of pivot-point residue Thr61, which leads to juxtaposition of the DNA binding regions permitting "hinge" helix formation in the presence of cognate DNA. The structure of the CcpA-(HPr-Ser46-P)-cre complex also reveals the elegant mechanism by which CcpA family-specific interactions with HPr-Ser46-P residues Ser46-P and His15 partition the high-energy CCR and low-energy PTS pathways, the latter requiring HPr-His15-P.
Structural basis for allosteric control of the transcription regulator CcpA by the phosphoprotein HPr-Ser46-P.,Schumacher MA, Allen GS, Diel M, Seidel G, Hillen W, Brennan RG Cell. 2004 Sep 17;118(6):731-41. PMID:15369672[1]
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References
- ↑ Schumacher MA, Allen GS, Diel M, Seidel G, Hillen W, Brennan RG. Structural basis for allosteric control of the transcription regulator CcpA by the phosphoprotein HPr-Ser46-P. Cell. 2004 Sep 17;118(6):731-41. PMID:15369672 doi:10.1016/j.cell.2004.08.027
