Structural Basis of a Rationally Rewired Protein-Protein Interface Critical to Bacterial Signaling

Two-component signal transduction systems typically involve a sensor histidine kinase that specifically phosphorylates a single, cognate response regulator. This protein-protein interaction relies on molecular recognition via a small set of residues in each protein. To better understand how these re...

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Main Authors: Casino, Patricia, Marina, Alberto, Podgornaia, Anna Igorevna, Laub, Michael T
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program
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Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110413
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Marina, Alberto
Podgornaia, Anna Igorevna
Laub, Michael T
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description Two-component signal transduction systems typically involve a sensor histidine kinase that specifically phosphorylates a single, cognate response regulator. This protein-protein interaction relies on molecular recognition via a small set of residues in each protein. To better understand how these residues determine the specificity of kinase-substrate interactions, we rationally rewired the interaction interface of a Thermotoga maritima two-component system, HK853-RR468, to match that found in a different two-component system, Escherichia coli PhoR-PhoB. The rewired proteins interacted robustly with each other, but no longer interacted with the parent proteins. Analysis of the crystal structures of the wild-type and mutant protein complexes and a systematic mutagenesis study reveal how individual mutations contribute to the rewiring of interaction specificity. Our approach and conclusions have implications for studies of other protein-protein interactions and protein evolution and for the design of novel protein interfaces.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1104132022-09-30T00:49:12Z Structural Basis of a Rationally Rewired Protein-Protein Interface Critical to Bacterial Signaling Casino, Patricia Marina, Alberto Podgornaia, Anna Igorevna Laub, Michael T Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology Podgornaia, Anna Igorevna Laub, Michael T Two-component signal transduction systems typically involve a sensor histidine kinase that specifically phosphorylates a single, cognate response regulator. This protein-protein interaction relies on molecular recognition via a small set of residues in each protein. To better understand how these residues determine the specificity of kinase-substrate interactions, we rationally rewired the interaction interface of a Thermotoga maritima two-component system, HK853-RR468, to match that found in a different two-component system, Escherichia coli PhoR-PhoB. The rewired proteins interacted robustly with each other, but no longer interacted with the parent proteins. Analysis of the crystal structures of the wild-type and mutant protein complexes and a systematic mutagenesis study reveal how individual mutations contribute to the rewiring of interaction specificity. Our approach and conclusions have implications for studies of other protein-protein interactions and protein evolution and for the design of novel protein interfaces. National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (MCB-0844442) 2017-07-03T12:51:40Z 2017-07-03T12:51:40Z 2013-08 2013-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0969-2126 1878-4186 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110413 Podgornaia, Anna I.; Casino, Patricia; Marina, Alberto and Laub, Michael T. “Structural Basis of a Rationally Rewired Protein-Protein Interface Critical to Bacterial Signaling.” Structure 21, no. 9 (September 2013): 1636–1647 © 2013 Elsevier Ltd https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-7607 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2013.07.005 Structure Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier PMC
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title_short Structural Basis of a Rationally Rewired Protein-Protein Interface Critical to Bacterial Signaling
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