Structural highlights
Function
[CHEY_ECOLI] Involved in the transmission of sensory signals from the chemoreceptors to the flagellar motors. In its active (phosphorylated or acetylated) form, CheY exhibits enhanced binding to a switch component, FliM, at the flagellar motor which induces a change from counterclockwise to clockwise flagellar rotation. Overexpression of CheY in association with MotA and MotB improves motility of a ycgR disruption, suggesting there is an interaction (direct or indirect) between the c-di-GMP-binding flagellar brake protein and the flagellar stator.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The chemical shift of the (129)Xe NMR signal has been shown to be extremely sensitive to the local environment around the atom and has been used to follow processes such as ligand binding by bacterial periplasmic binding proteins. Here we show that the (129)Xe shift can sense more subtle changes: magnesium binding, BeF(3)(-) activation, and peptide binding by the Escherichia coli chemotaxis Y protein. (1)H-(15)N correlation spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography were used to identify two xenon-binding cavities in CheY that are primarily responsible for the shift changes. One site is near the active site, and the other is near the peptide binding site.
Distinguishing multiple chemotaxis Y protein conformations with laser-polarized 129Xe NMR.,Lowery TJ, Doucleff M, Ruiz EJ, Rubin SM, Pines A, Wemmer DE Protein Sci. 2005 Apr;14(4):848-55. Epub 2005 Mar 1. PMID:15741343[2]
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References
- ↑ Paul K, Nieto V, Carlquist WC, Blair DF, Harshey RM. The c-di-GMP binding protein YcgR controls flagellar motor direction and speed to affect chemotaxis by a "backstop brake" mechanism. Mol Cell. 2010 Apr 9;38(1):128-39. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.03.001. Epub 2010, Mar 25. PMID:20346719 doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.03.001
- ↑ Lowery TJ, Doucleff M, Ruiz EJ, Rubin SM, Pines A, Wemmer DE. Distinguishing multiple chemotaxis Y protein conformations with laser-polarized 129Xe NMR. Protein Sci. 2005 Apr;14(4):848-55. Epub 2005 Mar 1. PMID:15741343 doi:10.1110/ps.041231005
