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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2003

Identification of a helix-turn-helix motif of Bacillus thermoglucosidasius HrcA essential for binding to the CIRCE element and thermostability of the HrcA-CIRCE complex, indicating a role as a thermosensor.

Masafumi Hitomi, Hiroshi Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, Kunihiko Watanabe

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Masafumi HitomiDepartment of Applied Biochemistry, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan.
Hiroshi Nishimura
Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto
Hiroshi Matsui
Kunihiko Watanabe
Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine · JPKyoto Prefectural University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the heat shock response of bacillary cells, HrcA repressor proteins negatively control the expression of the major heat shock genes, the groE and dnaK operons, by binding the CIRCE (controlling inverted repeat of chaperone expression) element. Studies on two critical but yet unresolved issues related to the structure and function of HrcA were performed using mainly the HrcA from the obligate thermophile Bacillus thermoglucosidasius KP1006. These two critical issues are (i) identifying the region at which HrcA binds to the CIRCE element and (ii) determining whether HrcA can play the role of a thermosensor. We identified the position of a helix-turn-helix (HTH) motif in B. thermoglucosidasius HrcA, which is typical of DNA-binding proteins, and indicated that two residues in the HTH motif are crucial for the binding of HrcA to the CIRCE element. Furthermore, we compared the thermostabilities of the HrcA-CIRCE complexes derived from Bacillus subtilis and B. thermoglucosidasius, which grow at vastly different ranges of temperature. The thermostability profiles of their HrcA-CIRCE complexes were quite consistent with the difference in the growth temperatures of B. thermoglucosidasius and B. subtilis and, thus, suggested that HrcA can function as a thermosensor to detect temperature changes in cells.

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Escherichia coli ProteinsHelix-Turn-Helix MotifsAmino Acid SequenceBacillusBacterial ProteinsChaperoninsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat-Shock ResponseHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsMolecular Sequence DataProtein DenaturationRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidRepressor ProteinsTemperatureBacterial ProteinsChaperoninsDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsdnaK protein, E coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGroE protein, E coliHeat-Shock ProteinsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsRepressor Proteins

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PMID12486078
PMCPMC141899
OpenAlexW2153267554

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