Structural highlights
Function
[MNTR_BACSU] Central regulator of manganese homeostasis. In the presence of manganese, it mediates repression of the manganese transporter MntH; under low manganese conditions, it activates the transcription of the mntABCD operon.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The Bacillus subtilis manganese transport regulator, MntR, binds Mn2+ as an effector and is a repressor of transporters that import manganese. A member of the diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) family of metalloregulatory proteins, MntR exhibits selectivity for Mn2+ over Fe2+. Replacement of a metal-binding residue, Asp8, with methionine (D8M) relaxes this specificity. We report here the X-ray crystal structures of wild-type MntR and the D8M mutant bound to manganese with 1.75 A and 1.61 A resolution, respectively. The 142-residue MntR homodimer has substantial structural similarity to the 226-residue DtxR but lacks the C-terminal SH3-like domain of DtxR. The metal-binding pockets of MntR and DtxR are substantially different. The cation-to-cation distance between the two manganese ions bound by MntR is 3.3 A, whereas that between the metal ions bound by DtxR is 9 A. D8M binds only a single Mn2+ per monomer, owing to alteration of the metal-binding site. The sole retained metal site adopts pseudo-hexacoordinate geometry rather than the pseudo-heptacoordinate geometry of the MntR metal sites.
Structure of the manganese-bound manganese transport regulator of Bacillus subtilis.,Glasfeld A, Guedon E, Helmann JD, Brennan RG Nat Struct Biol. 2003 Aug;10(8):652-7. PMID:12847518[1]
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References
- ↑ Glasfeld A, Guedon E, Helmann JD, Brennan RG. Structure of the manganese-bound manganese transport regulator of Bacillus subtilis. Nat Struct Biol. 2003 Aug;10(8):652-7. PMID:12847518 doi:10.1038/nsb951
