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 …

Phosphorylation-induced signal propagation in the response regulator NtrC

J Lee, JT Owens, I Hwang, C Meares… - Journal of …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bacterial enhancer-binding protein NtrC is a well-studied response regulator in a two-
component regulatory system. The amino (N)-terminal receiver domain of NtrC modulates …

Phosphorylation-independent dimer-dimer interactions by the enhancer-binding activator NtrC of Escherichia coli: a third function for the C-terminal domain

XF Yang, Y Ji, BL Schneider, L Reitzer - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2004 - ASBMB
The response regulator NtrC transcriptionally activates genes of the nitrogen-regulated (Ntr)
response. Phosphorylation of its N-terminal receiver domain stimulates an essential …

Mechanism of activation of a response regulator: interaction of NtrC-P dimers induces ATPase activity

I Mettke, U Fiedler, V Weiss - Journal of bacteriology, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
NtrC is the transcriptional activator for nitrogen-regulated promoters and, as a response
regulator, belongs to the protein family of two-component systems. The activity of all …

Identification of Linker Regions and Domain Borders of the Transcription Activator Protein NtrC from Escherichia coli by Limited Proteolysis, In-Gel Digestion, and …

M Bantscheff, V Weiss, MO Glocker - Biochemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
We have developed a mass spectrometry based method for the identification of linker
regions and domain borders in multidomain proteins. This approach combines limited …

Physical evidence for a phosphorylation-dependent conformational change in the enhancer-binding protein NtrC

I Hwang, T Thorgeirsson, J Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The bacterial enhancer-binding protein nitrogen regulatory protein C (NtrC) activates
transcription by σ54-containing RNA polymerase in a reaction that depends on ATP …

Effector‐induced self‐association and conformational changes in the enhancer‐binding protein NTRC

ME Farez‐Vidal, TJ Wilson, BE Davidson… - Molecular …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogen regulatory protein NTRC is a response regulator which
activates transcription in response to nitrogen limitation, and is a member of the family of σN …

“Switch I” mutant forms of the bacterial enhancer-binding protein NtrC that perturb the response to DNA

D Yan, S Kustu - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
NtrC (nitrogen regulatory protein C) is a bacterial enhancer-binding protein of 469 residues
that activates transcription by σ54-holoenzyme. A region of its transcriptional activation …

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 …

The phosphorylated form of the enhancer-binding protein NTRC has an ATPase activity that is essential for activation of transcription

DS Weiss, J Batut, KE Klose, J Keener, S Kustu - Cell, 1991 - cell.com
The NTRC protein of enteric bacteria is an enhancerbinding protein that activates
transcription in response to limitation of combined nitrogen. NTRC activates transcription by …