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An autoinhibitory mechanism controls RNA-binding activity of the nitrate-sensing protein NasR.

ABSTRACT: The ANTAR domain harnesses RNA-binding activity to promote transcription attenuation. Although several ANTAR proteins have been analyzed by high-resolution structural analyses, the residues involved in RNA-recognition and transcription attenuation have not been identified. Nor is it clear how signal-responsive domains are allosterically coupled with ANTAR domains for control of gene expression. Herein, we examined the sequence conservation of ANTAR domains to find residues that may associate with RNA. We subjected the corresponding positions of Klebsiella oxytoca NasR to site-directed alanine substitutions and measured RNA-binding activity. This revealed a functionally important patch of residues that forms amino acid pairing interactions with residues from NasR's nitrate-sensing NIT domain. We hypothesize these amino acid pairing interactions are part of an autoinhibitory mechanism that holds the structure in an "off" state in the absence of nitrate signal. Indeed, mutational disruption of these interactions resulted in constitutively active proteins, freed from autoinhibition and no longer influenced by nitrate. Moreover, sequence analyses suggested the autoinhibitory mechanism has been evolutionarily maintained by NasR proteins. These data reveal a molecular mechanism for how NasR couples its nitrate signal to RNA-binding activity, and generally show how signal-responsive domains of one-component regulatory proteins have evolved to exert control over RNA-binding ANTAR domains.

SUBMITTER: Goodson JR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7496416 | biostudies-literature |

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