Wright, Jesse S., Lyon, Gholson J., George, Elizabeth A., Muir, Tom W., Novick, Richard P. (2004) Hydrophobic interactions drive ligand-receptor recognition for activation and inhibition of staphylococcal quorum sensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101 (46). pp. 16168-16173. ISSN 0027-8424
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Abstract
Two-component systems represent the most widely used signaling paradigm in living organisms. Encoding the prototypical two-component system in Gram-positive bacteria, the staphylococcal agr (accessory gene regulator) operon uses a polytopic receptor, AgrC, activated by an autoinducing peptide (AIP), to coordinate quorum sensing with the global synthesis of virulence factors. The agr locus has undergone evolutionary divergence, resulting in the formation of several distinct inter- and intraspecies specificity groups, such that most cross-group AIP-receptor interactions are mutually inhibitory. We have exploited this natural diversity by constructing and analyzing AgrC chimeras generated by exchange of intradomain segments between receptors of different agr groups. Functional chimeras fell into three general classes: receptors with broadened specificity, receptors with tightened specificity, and receptors that lack activation specificity. Testing of these chimeric receptors against a battery of AIP analogs localized the primary ligand recognition site to the receptor distal subdomain and revealed that the AIPs bind primarily to a putative hydrophobic pocket in the receptor. This binding is mediated by a highly conserved hydrophobic patch on the AIPs and is an absolute requirement for interactions in self-activation and cross-inhibition of the receptors. It is suggested that this recognition scheme provides the fundamental basis for agr activation and interference.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Amino Acid Sequence Bacterial Proteins Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions Ligands Models, Biological Protein Structure, Tertiary Recombinant Fusion Proteins Signal Transduction Staphylococcus Staphylococcus aureus |
| Subjects: | organism description > bacteria bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein receptor |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Lyon lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2012 20:11 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2018 21:22 |
| PMCID: | PMC528941 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/26286 |
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