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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2017

A conserved regulatory mechanism in bifunctional biotin protein ligases.

Jingheng Wang, Dorothy Beckett

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jingheng WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742.
Dorothy BeckettDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742.
University of Maryland, College Park · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Class II bifunctional biotin protein ligases (BirA), which catalyze post-translational biotinylation and repress transcription initiation, are broadly distributed in eubacteria and archaea. However, it is unclear if these proteins all share the same molecular mechanism of transcription regulation. In Escherichia coli the corepressor biotinoyl-5'-AMP (bio-5'-AMP), which is also the intermediate in biotin transfer, promotes operator binding and resulting transcription repression by enhancing BirA dimerization. Like E. coli BirA (EcBirA), Staphylococcus aureus, and Bacillus subtilis BirA (Sa and BsBirA) repress transcription in vivo in a biotin-dependent manner. In this work, sedimentation equilibrium measurements were performed to investigate the molecular basis of this biotin-responsive transcription regulation. The results reveal that, as observed for EcBirA, Sa, and BsBirA dimerization reactions are significantly enhanced by bio-5'-AMP binding. Thus, the molecular mechanism of the Biotin Regulatory System is conserved in the biotin repressors from these three organisms.

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Transcription, GeneticAdenosine MonophosphateAmino Acid SequenceBacillus subtilisBinding SitesBiotinBiotinylationCarbon-Nitrogen LigasesCloning, MolecularConserved SequenceEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGene ExpressionIsoenzymesKineticsLigands5'-AMP-biotinAdenosine MonophosphateBiotinbirA protein, E coliCarbon-Nitrogen LigasesEscherichia coli ProteinsIsoenzymesLigandsRecombinant ProteinsRepressor Proteinsallosterybiotin protein ligaseevolutionprotein dimerizationsedimentation equilibriumthermodynamic linkage

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PMID28466579
PMCPMC5521586
OpenAlexW2610215127

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