Molecular dynamic simulations of the N-terminal receiver domain of NtrC reveal intrinsic conformational flexibility in the inactive state

X Hu, Y Wang - Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The N-terminal receiver domain of NtrC is the molecular switch in the two-component signal
transduction. It is the first protein where structures of both the active (phosphyroylated) and …

Allostery and folding of the N-terminal receiver domain of protein ntrc

S Tripathi, JJ Portman - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2013 - ACS Publications
The N-terminal receiver domain of protein NtrC (NtrCr) exhibits allosteric transitions between
the inactive (unphosphorylated) and active (phosphorylated) state on the microsecond time …

Coarse‐grained dynamics of the receiver domain of NtrC: Fluctuations, correlations and implications for allosteric cooperativity

MS Liu, BD Todd, S Yao, ZP Feng… - PROTEINS …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Receiver domains are key molecular switches in bacterial signaling. Structural studies have
shown that the receiver domain of the nitrogen regulatory protein C (NtrC) exists in a …

Evidence against the “Y–T coupling” mechanism of activation in the response regulator NtrC

J Villali, F Pontiggia, MW Clarkson, MF Hagan… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
The dominant theory on the mechanism of response regulators activation in two-component
bacterial signaling systems is the “Y–T coupling” mechanism, wherein the χ 1 rotameric state …

Structural and functional analyses of activating amino acid substitutions in the receiver domain of NtrC: evidence for an activating surface

M Nohaile, D Kern, D Wemmer, K Stedman… - Journal of molecular …, 1997 - Elsevier
The bacterial enhancer-binding protein NtrC activates transcription when phosphorylated on
aspartate 54 in its amino (N)-terminal regulatory domain or when altered by constitutively …

Self‐guided Langevin dynamics study of regulatory interactions in NtrC

A Damjanović, B García‐Moreno E… - Proteins: Structure …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple self‐guided Langevin dynamics (SGLD) simulations were performed to examine
structural and dynamical properties of the receiver domain of nitrogen regulatory protein C …

Two-state allosteric behavior in a single-domain signaling protein

BF Volkman, D Lipson, DE Wemmer, D Kern - Science, 2001 - science.org
Protein actions are usually discussed in terms of static structures, but function requires
motion. We find a strong correlation between phosphorylation-driven activation of the …

Three-dimensional solution structure of the N-terminal receiver domain of NTRC

BF Volkman, MJ Nohaile, NK Amy, S Kustu… - Biochemistry, 1995 - ACS Publications
Revised Manuscript Received November 15, 1994® abstract: NTRC is a transcriptional
enhancer binding protein whose N-terminal domain is a member of the family of receiver …

During transitions proteins make fleeting bonds

DD Boehr - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
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A network of molecular switches controls the activation of the two-component response regulator NtrC

DK Vanatta, D Shukla, M Lawrenz, VS Pande - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Recent successes in simulating protein structure and folding dynamics have demonstrated
the power of molecular dynamics to predict the long timescale behaviour of proteins. Here …