1QP4

PURINE REPRESSOR-HYPOXANTHINE-PALINDROMIC OPERATOR COMPLEX


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 3.00 Å

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Literature

The role of lysine 55 in determining the specificity of the purine repressor for its operators through minor groove interactions.

Glasfeld, A.Koehler, A.N.Schumacher, M.A.Brennan, R.G.

(1999) J Mol Biol 291: 347-361

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1999.2946
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    1QP0, 1QP4, 1QP7, 1QPZ, 1QQA, 1QQB

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    The interaction of the dimeric Escherichia coli purine repressor (PurR) with its cognate sequences leads to a 45 degrees to 50 degrees kink at a central CpG base step towards the major groove, as dyad-related leucine side-chains interdigitate between these bases from the minor groove. The resulting broadening of the minor groove increases the accessibility of the six central base-pairs towards minor groove interactions with residues from PurR. It has been shown that lysine 55 of PurR makes a direct contact with the adenine base (Ade8) directly 5' to the central CpG base-pair step in the high-affinity purF operator sequence. We have investigated the importance of this interaction in the specificity and affinity of wild-type PurR (WT) for its operators and we have studied a mutant of PurR in which Lys55 is replaced with alanine (K55A). Complexes of WT and K55A with duplex DNA containing pur operator sequences varied at position 8 were investigated crystallographically, and binding studies were performed using fluorescence anisotropy. The structures of the protein-DNA complexes reveal a relatively unperturbed global conformation regardless of the identity of the base-pair at position 8 or residue 55. In all structures the combination of higher resolution and a palindromic purF operator site allowed several new PurR.DNA interactions to be observed, including contacts by Thr15, Thr16 and His20. The side-chain of Lys55 makes productive, though varying, interactions with the adenine, thymine or cytosine base at position 8 that result in equilibrium dissociation constants of 2.6 nM, 10 nM and 35 nM, respectively. However, the bulk of the lysine side-chain apparently blocks high-affinity binding of operators with guanine at position 8 (Kd620 nM). Also, the high-affinity binding conformation appears blocked, as crystals of WT bound to DNA with guanine at position 8 could not be grown. In complexes containing K55A, the alanine side-chain is too far removed to engage in van der Waals interactions with the operator, and, with the loss of the general electrostatic interaction between the phosphate backbone and the ammonium group of lysine, K55A binds each operator weakly. However, the mutation leads to a swap of specificity of PurR for the base at position 8, with K55A exhibiting a twofold preference for guanine over adenine. In addition to defining the role of Lys55 in PurR minor groove binding, these studies provide structural insight into the minor groove binding specificities of other LacI/GalR family members that have either alanine (e.g. LacI, GalR, CcpA) or a basic residue (e.g. RafR, ScrR, RbtR) at the comparable position.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, 97201-3098, USA.


Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 2
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
PROTEIN (PURINE NUCLEOTIDE SYNTHESIS REPRESSOR)B [auth A]340Escherichia coliMutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: PURR
UniProt
Find proteins for P0ACP7 (Escherichia coli (strain K12))
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Go to UniProtKB:  P0ACP7
Entity Groups  
Sequence Clusters30% Identity50% Identity70% Identity90% Identity95% Identity100% Identity
UniProt GroupP0ACP7
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains LengthOrganismImage
DNA (5'-D(*TP*AP*CP*GP*CP*AP*AP*TP*CP*GP*AP*TP*TP*GP*CP*GP*T)-3')A [auth M]17N/A
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  • Reference Sequence
Small Molecules
Ligands 1 Unique
IDChains Name / Formula / InChI Key2D Diagram3D Interactions
HPA
Query on HPA

Download Ideal Coordinates CCD File 
C [auth A]HYPOXANTHINE
C5 H4 N4 O
FDGQSTZJBFJUBT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Binding Affinity Annotations 
IDSourceBinding Affinity
DNA PDBBind:  1QP4 Kd: 10 (nM) from 1 assay(s)
Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 3.00 Å
  • Space Group: C 2 2 21
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 176.48α = 90
b = 95.26β = 90
c = 81.18γ = 90
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
TNTrefinement
UCSD-systemdata reduction
UCSD-systemdata scaling

Structure Validation

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Entry History 

Deposition Data

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 1999-06-07
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2008-04-27
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.2: 2011-07-13
    Changes: Version format compliance
  • Version 1.3: 2017-10-04
    Changes: Refinement description
  • Version 1.4: 2024-02-14
    Changes: Data collection, Database references, Derived calculations