Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Cyclic - C2  (3D View)
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 18-mer - A12B4C2 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 547598.44 
• Atom Count: 38314 
• Residue Count: 5010 
• Unique protein chains: 4

3JA6

Cryo-electron Tomography and All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal a Novel Kinase Conformational Switch in Bacterial Chemotaxis Signaling

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb3JA6/pdb
• EMDataBank: EMD-6319

• Classification: SIGNALING PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)
• Expression System: Escherichia coli


• Deposited: 2015-04-21 Released: 2015-12-09 
• Deposition Author(s): Cassidy, C.K., Himes, B.A., Alvarez, F.J., Ma, J., Zhao, G., Perilla, J.R., Schulten, K., Zhang, P.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 12.7 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: TOMOGRAPHY 

Literature

CryoEM and computer simulations reveal a novel kinase conformational switch in bacterial chemotaxis signaling.

Cassidy, C.K., Himes, B.A., Alvarez, F.J., Ma, J., Zhao, G., Perilla, J.R., Schulten, K., Zhang, P.

(2015) Elife 4: e08419-e08419

• PubMed: 26583751 
• DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08419


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Chemotactic responses in bacteria require large, highly ordered arrays of sensory proteins to mediate the signal transduction that ultimately controls cell motility. A mechanistic understanding of the molecular events underlying signaling, however, has been hampered by the lack of a high-resolution structural description of the extended array. Here, we report a novel reconstitution of the array, involving the receptor signaling domain, histidine kinase CheA, and adaptor protein CheW, as well as a density map of the core-signaling unit at 11.3 Å resolution, obtained by cryo-electron tomography and sub-tomogram averaging. Extracting key structural constraints from our density map, we computationally construct and refine an atomic model of the core array structure, exposing novel interfaces between the component proteins. Using all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, we further reveal a distinctive conformational change in CheA. Mutagenesis and chemical cross-linking experiments confirm the importance of the conformational dynamics of CheA for chemotactic function.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Department of Physics and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States.

Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Chemotaxis protein CheW	A, B, D, F	139	Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: cheW
Find proteins for Q56311 (Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)) Go to UniProtKB:  Q56311

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Chemotaxis protein CheA	C, E	379	Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: cheA EC: 2.7.13.3
Find proteins for Q56310 (Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)) Go to UniProtKB:  Q56310

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein 2	G, I, K, M, O, Q	309	Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: mcp2
Find proteins for Q9X0M7 (Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)) Go to UniProtKB:  Q9X0M7

Entity ID: 4
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein 2	H, J, L, N, P, R	307	Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: mcp2
Find proteins for Q9X0M7 (Thermotoga maritima (strain ATCC 43589 / MSB8 / DSM 3109 / JCM 10099)) Go to UniProtKB:  Q9X0M7

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
• Resolution: 12.7 Å
• Aggregation State: PARTICLE 
• Reconstruction Method: TOMOGRAPHY 

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2015-04-21 
• Released Date: 2015-12-09 
• Deposition Author(s): Cassidy, C.K., Himes, B.A., Alvarez, F.J., Ma, J., Zhao, G., Perilla, J.R., Schulten, K., Zhang, P.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2015-12-09
  Type: Initial release