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Analyzing Protein Architectures and Protein-Ligand Complexes by Integrative Structural Mass Spectrometry
Published on: October 15, 2018
Functional insights from the molecular modelling of a novel two-component system
Rashmi Shrivastava1, Dibya Ranjan Das, Harald G Wiker
1Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India.
Abstract:
Two-component systems (TCSs) are the major signalling pathway in bacteria and represent potential drug targets. Among the 11 paired TCS proteins present in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, the histidine kinases (HKs) Rv0600c (HK1) and Rv0601c (HK2) are annotated to phosphorylate one response regulator (RR) Rv0602c (TcrA). We wanted to establish the sequence-structure-function relationship to elucidate the mechanism of phosphotransfer using in silico methods. Sequence alignments and codon usage analysis showed that the two domains encoded by a single gene in homologous HKs have been separated into individual open-reading frames in M. tuberculosis. This is the first example where two incomplete HKs are involved in phosphorylating a single RR. The model shows that HK2 is a unique histidine phosphotransfer (HPt)-mono-domain protein, not found as lone protein in other bacteria. The secondary structure of HKs was confirmed using "far-UV" circular dichroism study of purified proteins. We propose that HK1 phosphorylates HK2 at the conserved H131 and the phosphoryl group is then transferred to D73 of TcrA.
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