Structural highlights
Function
[ARGR_BACSU] Represses the synthesis of biosynthetic enzymes and activates the arginine catabolism. Controls the transcription of the two operons rocABC and rocDEF.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
In Bacillus subtilis the concentration of L-arginine is controlled by the transcriptional regulator AhrC, which interacts with 18 bp DNA operator sites called ARG boxes in the promoters of arginine biosynthetic and catabolic operons. AhrC is a 100 kDa homohexamer, with each subunit having two domains. The C-terminal domains form the core, mediating intersubunit interactions and binding of the co-repressor L-arginine, whilst the N-terminal domains contain a winged helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif and are arranged around the periphery. The N-terminal domain of AhrC has been expressed, purified and characterized and it has been shown that the fragment still binds DNA operators as a recombinant monomer. The DNA-binding domain has also been crystallized and the crystal structure refined to 1.0 A resolution is presented.
A high-resolution structure of the DNA-binding domain of AhrC, the arginine repressor/activator protein from Bacillus subtilis.,Garnett JA, Baumberg S, Stockley PG, Phillips SE Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Nov 1;63(Pt, 11):914-7. Epub 2007 Oct 20. PMID:18007039[1]
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References
- ↑ Garnett JA, Baumberg S, Stockley PG, Phillips SE. A high-resolution structure of the DNA-binding domain of AhrC, the arginine repressor/activator protein from Bacillus subtilis. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007 Nov 1;63(Pt, 11):914-7. Epub 2007 Oct 20. PMID:18007039 doi:http://dx.doi.org/S1744309107048166
