5YDP

Crystal Structure of TetR Family Repressor AlkX from Dietzia sp. Strain DQ12-45-1b Implicated in Biodegradation of n-Alkanes

5YDP の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb5ydp/pdb
• 分子名称: TetR transcriptional regulatory protein (1 entity in total)
• 機能のキーワード: 10 alfa helices, homodimer, apo-protein, gene regulation
• 由来する生物種: Dietzia sp. DQ12-45-1b
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 3
• 化学式量合計: 78665.04

構造登録者

Zheng, H.,Gao, Y.,Liang, J.L. (登録日: 2017-09-14, 公開日: 2017-10-04, 最終更新日: 2018-04-18)

主引用文献

Liang, J.L.,Gao, Y.,He, Z.,Nie, Y.,Wang, M.,JiangYang, J.H.,Zhang, X.C.,Shu, W.S.,Wu, X.L.
Crystal Structure of TetR Family Repressor AlkX from Dietzia sp. Strain DQ12-45-1b Implicated in Biodegradation ofn-Alkanes.
Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 83:-, 2017

PubMed Abstract: -Alkanes are ubiquitous in nature and are widely used by microorganisms as carbon sources. Alkane hydroxylation by alkane monooxygenases is a critical step in the aerobic biodegradation of -alkanes, which plays important roles in natural alkane attenuation and is used in industrial and environmental applications. The alkane oxidation operon, , in the alkane-degrading strain sp. strain DQ12-45-1b is negatively autoregulated by the TetR family repressor AlkX via a product positive feedback mechanism. To predict the gene regulation mechanism, we determined the 3.1-Å crystal structure of an AlkX homodimer in a non-DNA-bound state. The structure showed traceable long electron density deep inside a hydrophobic cavity of each monomer along the long axis of the helix bundle, and further gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of AlkX revealed that it contained the -derived long-chain fatty acid molecules as a ligand. Moreover, an unusual structural feature of AlkX is an extra helix, α6', forming a lid-like structure with α6 covering the inducer-binding pocket and occupying the space between the two symmetrical DNA-binding motifs in one dimer, indicating a distinct conformational transition mode in modulating DNA binding. Sequence alignment of AlkX homologs from strains showed that the residues involved in DNA and inducer binding are highly conserved, suggesting that the regulation mechanisms of -alkane hydroxylation are possibly a common characteristic of strains. With -alkanes being ubiquitous in nature, many bacteria from terrestrial and aquatic environments have evolved -alkane oxidation functions. Alkane hydroxylation by alkane monooxygenases is a critical step in the aerobic biodegradation of -alkanes, which plays important roles in natural alkane attenuation and petroleum-contaminating environment bioremediation. The gene regulation of the most common alkane hydroxylase, AlkB, has been studied widely in Gram-negative bacteria but has been less explored in Gram-positive bacteria. Our previous study showed that the TetR family regulator (TFR) AlkX negatively autoregulated the alkane oxidation operon, , in the Gram-positive strain sp. strain DQ12-45-1b. Although TFRs are one of the most common transcriptional regulator families in bacteria, the TFR involved in -alkane metabolism has been reported only recently. In this study, we determined the crystal structure of AlkX, which implies a distinct DNA/ligand binding mode. Our results shed light upon the regulation mechanism of the common alkane degradation process in nature.

PubMed: 28821550
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01447-17

実験手法

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (3.091 Å)