| Literature DB >> 19928961 |
Zhen Ma1, Darin M Cowart, Brian P Ward, Randy J Arnold, Richard D DiMarchi, Limei Zhang, Graham N George, Robert A Scott, David P Giedroc.
Abstract
The Cu(I) sensor Mycobacterium tuberculosis CsoR is a founding member of a new metalloregulatory protein family. Here we show that two "atom" substitutions of the Nepsilon2 face of a Cu(I) coordinating histidine-61 allosterically uncouple Cu(I) and DNA binding, with no effect on Cu(I) binding affinity and coordination structure. A model analogous to the allosteric switch mechanism in Staphylococcus aureus CzrA, a zinc sensor protein with a completely different fold, is proposed.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19928961 PMCID: PMC2797707 DOI: 10.1021/ja908372b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419