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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 284, 期 21, 页码 14628-14636出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M809656200
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1GM081567]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
In Escherichia coli, RelE toxin participates in growth arrest and cell death by inducing mRNA degradation at the ribosomal A-site under stress conditions. The NMR structures of a mutant of E. coli RelE toxin, RelE(R81A/R83A), with reduced toxicity and its complex with an inhibitory peptide from RelB antitoxin, RelBC (Lys(47)-Leu(79)), have been determined. In the free RelE(R81A/R83A) structure, helix alpha 4 at the C terminus adopts a closed conformation contacting with the beta-sheet core and adjacent loops. In the RelE(R81A/R83A)-RelB(C) complex, helix alpha 3* of RelBC displaces alpha 4 of RelE(R81A/R83A) from the binding site on the beta-sheet core. This helix replacement results in neutralization of a conserved positively charged cluster of RelE by acidic residues from alpha 3* of RelB. The released helix alpha 4 becomes unfolded, adopting an open conformation with increased mobility. The displacement of alpha 4 disrupts the geometry of critical residues, including Arg(81) and Tyr(87), in a putative active site of RelE toxin. Our structures indicate that RelB counteracts the toxic activity of RelE by displacing alpha 4 helix from the catalytically competent position found in the free RelE structure.
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