Attractant and repellent induce opposing changes in the chemoreceptor four-helix bundle ligand-binding domain
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)
摘要
Motile bacteria navigate toward favorable conditions and away from unfavorable environments using chemotaxis. Mechanisms of sensing attractants are well understood, however molecular aspects of how bacteria sense repellents have not been established. Here, we identified malate as a repellent recognized by the MCP2021 chemoreceptor in a bacterium Comamonas testosteroni and showed that it binds to the same site as an attractant citrate. Binding determinants for a repellent and an attractant had only minor differences, and a single amino acid substitution in the binding site inverted the response to malate from a repellent to an attractant. We found that malate and citrate affect the oligomerization state of the ligand-binding domain in opposing way. We also observed opposing effects of repellent and attractant binding on the orientation of an alpha helix connecting the sensory domain to the transmembrane helix. We propose a model to illustrate how positive and negative signals are generated and transduced across the membrane and built chimera proteins to illustrate a universal nature of the transmembrane signaling by the repellent.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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repellent induce,chemoreceptor,four-helix,ligand-binding
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