Structural highlights
Function
[LRP_ECOLI] Mediates a global response to leucine. Exogenous leucine affects the expression of a number of different operons; lrp mediates this effect for at least some of these operons. For example it is regulator of the branched-chain amino acid transport genes.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The structure of Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) co-crystallized with a short duplex oligodeoxynucleotide reveals a novel quaternary assembly in which the protein octamer forms an open, linear array of four dimers. In contrast, structures of the Lrp homologs LrpA, LrpC and AsnC crystallized in the absence of DNA show that these proteins instead form highly symmetrical octamers in which the four dimers form a closed ring. Although the DNA is disordered within the Lrp crystal, comparative analyses suggest that the observed differences in quaternary state may arise from DNA interactions during crystallization. Interconversion of these conformations, possibly in response to DNA or leucine binding, provides an underlying mechanism to alter the relative spatial orientation of the DNA-binding domains. Breaking of the closed octamer symmetry may be a common essential step in the formation of active DNA complexes by all members of the Lrp/AsnC family of transcriptional regulatory proteins.
Structure of the Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein Lrp reveals a novel octameric assembly.,de los Rios S, Perona JJ J Mol Biol. 2007 Mar 9;366(5):1589-602. Epub 2006 Dec 19. PMID:17223133[1]
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References
- ↑ de los Rios S, Perona JJ. Structure of the Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein Lrp reveals a novel octameric assembly. J Mol Biol. 2007 Mar 9;366(5):1589-602. Epub 2006 Dec 19. PMID:17223133 doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.12.032
