High-resolution protein complexes from integrating genomic information with molecular simulation
- 29 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Vol. 106 (52), 22124-22129
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0912100106
Abstract
Bacteria use two-component signal transduction systems (TCS) extensively to sense and react to external stimuli. In these, a membrane-bound sensor histidine kinase (SK) autophosphorylates in response to an environmental stimulus and transfers the phosphoryl group to a transcription factor/response regulator (RR) that mediates the cellular response. The complex between these two proteins is ruled by transient interactions, which provides a challenge to experimental structure determination techniques. The functional and structural homolog of an SK/RR pair Spo0B/Spo0F, however, has been structurally resolved. Here, we describe a method capable of generating structural models of such transient protein complexes. By using existing structures of the individual proteins, our method combines bioinformatically derived contact residue information with molecular dynamics simulations. We find crystal resolution accuracy with existing crystallographic data when reconstituting the known system Spo0B/Spo0F. Using this approach, we introduce a complex structure of TM0853/TM0468 as an exemplary SK/RR TCS, consistent with all experimentally available data.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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