Seedorff Jennifer E, Rodgers Michael E, Schleif Robert
Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Protein Sci. 2009 Apr;18(4):775-81. doi: 10.1002/pro.88.
Regulation of the DNA binding affinity of an oligomeric protein can be considered to consist of an intrinsic component, in which the affinity of an individual DNA-binding domain is modulated in response to effector binding, and an extrinsic component, in which the relative position of the protein's two DNA-binding domains are altered so that they can or cannot contact both half-site operators simultaneously. We demonstrated directly that the TetR repressor utilizes an extrinsic mechanism and CAP, the catabolite activator protein, utilizes an intrinsic mechanism.
寡聚蛋白的DNA结合亲和力调控可被认为由内在成分和外在成分组成。内在成分中,单个DNA结合结构域的亲和力会响应效应物结合而被调节;外在成分中,蛋白质两个DNA结合结构域的相对位置发生改变,使得它们能够或无法同时与两个半位点操纵子接触。我们直接证明了TetR阻遏蛋白利用外在机制,而分解代谢物激活蛋白CAP利用内在机制。