4RZT

Lac repressor engineered to bind sucralose, sucralose-bound tetramer


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 3.10 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.243 
  • R-Value Work: 0.205 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.207 

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Literature

Engineering an allosteric transcription factor to respond to new ligands.

Taylor, N.D.Garruss, A.S.Moretti, R.Chan, S.Arbing, M.A.Cascio, D.Rogers, J.K.Isaacs, F.J.Kosuri, S.Baker, D.Fields, S.Church, G.M.Raman, S.

(2016) Nat Methods 13: 177-183

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3696
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    4RZS, 4RZT

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    Genetic regulatory proteins inducible by small molecules are useful synthetic biology tools as sensors and switches. Bacterial allosteric transcription factors (aTFs) are a major class of regulatory proteins, but few aTFs have been redesigned to respond to new effectors beyond natural aTF-inducer pairs. Altering inducer specificity in these proteins is difficult because substitutions that affect inducer binding may also disrupt allostery. We engineered an aTF, the Escherichia coli lac repressor, LacI, to respond to one of four new inducer molecules: fucose, gentiobiose, lactitol and sucralose. Using computational protein design, single-residue saturation mutagenesis or random mutagenesis, along with multiplex assembly, we identified new variants comparable in specificity and induction to wild-type LacI with its inducer, isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG). The ability to create designer aTFs will enable applications including dynamic control of cell metabolism, cell biology and synthetic gene circuits.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Wyss Institute for Biologically-Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
Lac repressor
A, B, C, D
381Escherichia coli DH1Mutation(s): 4 
Gene Names: b0345ECDH1ME8569_0332EcDH1_3261lacI
UniProt
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Go to UniProtKB:  P03023
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UniProt GroupP03023
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Entity ID: 2
MoleculeChains Length2D Diagram Glycosylation3D Interactions
4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-galactopyranose-(1-2)-1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranose
E, F, G, H
2N/AN/A
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 3.10 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.243 
  • R-Value Work: 0.205 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.207 
  • Space Group: C 1 2 1
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 163.59α = 90
b = 74.08β = 119.91
c = 149.16γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
REFMACrefinement
PHASERphasing
BUSTER-TNTrefinement
PDB_EXTRACTdata extraction
XDSdata reduction
XSCALEdata scaling

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

Deposition Data

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2015-12-23
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2016-01-06
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.2: 2016-03-02
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.3: 2017-11-22
    Changes: Refinement description
  • Version 1.4: 2019-07-17
    Changes: Data collection, Refinement description
  • Version 2.0: 2020-07-29
    Type: Remediation
    Reason: Carbohydrate remediation
    Changes: Atomic model, Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations, Non-polymer description, Structure summary
  • Version 2.1: 2024-02-28
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Refinement description