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Structural analysis of the choline-binding protein ChoX in a semi-closed and ligand-free conformation

  • Christine Oswald , Sander H.J. Smits , Marina Höing , Erhard Bremer und Lutz Schmitt
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 30. Juli 2009
Biological Chemistry
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 390 Heft 11

Abstract

The periplasmic ligand-binding protein ChoX is part of the ABC transport system ChoVWX that imports choline as a nutrient into the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. We have recently reported the crystal structures of ChoX in complex with its ligands choline and acetylcholine and the structure of a fully closed but substrate-free state of ChoX. This latter structure revealed an architecture of the ligand-binding site that is superimposable to the closed, ligand-bound form of ChoX. We report here the crystal structure of ChoX in an unusual, ligand-free conformation that represents a semi-closed form of ChoX. The analysis revealed a subdomain movement in the N-lobe of ChoX. Comparison with the two well-characterized substrate binding proteins, MBP and HisJ, suggests the presence of a similar subdomain in these proteins.


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Received: 2009-5-13
Accepted: 2009-6-5
Published Online: 2009-07-30
Published in Print: 2009-11-01

©2009 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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