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pISSN 2288-6982 l eISSN 2288-7105 BIO DESIGN MINI REVIEW P 1-13 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang* School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea. *Correspondence: [email protected] Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of fearful pathogens and has the ability to persist within its host. Its successful survival is due to alterations in gene expression in response to environmental changes by two component systems (TCS), which consist of sensor histidine kinases (HK) and their cognate response regulators (RR). M. tuberculosis has twelve TCSs and five orphan RRs. A typical TCS involves sensing of internal or external signals by a HK, leading to its autophosphorylation, followed by phosphoryl transfer to the cognate RR, which functions as a transcriptional activator. To understand the function and the mechanism of M. tuberculosis TCSs, the components of HKs and RRs are subjected on the structural studies and the results could be useful for new antituberculosis drug development. Here, structural features of HKs and RRs currently revealed from M. tuberculosis are summarized. Those include GAF and PAS domains for senor domains and ATP binding domains from HKs, and the receiver and effector domains from RRs. INTRODUCTION The tubercle bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis was first identified and described in 1882 by Robert Koch. Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by M. tuberculosis, and is spread through the air from one person to another by coughing and sneezing. Currently one-third of the world’s population is thought to have been infected with this bacillus with new infections occurring in about 1% the population each year (Parrish et al., 1998). Those people carry the bacterium in the dormant state and the pathogen is insensitive to most available chemotherapy in this state. It is why the tuberculosis is more difficult to complete cure. Moreover, due to improper use of drugs in chemotherapy, the drug resistance arises. Recently, TB drug resistance is an important public health problem that threatens progress made in TB care and control worldwide. In addition to multidrug-resistant TB, there is emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB, which is resistant to most of drugs including isoniazid, rifampin, any fluoroquinolone and the second-line drugs (Falzon et al., 2011). Moreover, the synergy created between TB and AIDS makes each disease considerably more deadly (Hopewell, 1992). M. tuberculosis can persist within the human host for years without causing disease, in a syndrome known as latent TB. The mechanisms by which M. tuberculosis establishes a latent metabolic state, eludes immune surveillance and responds to triggers that stimulate reactivation are a high priority for the future control of TB (Parrish et al., 1998). TB infections are normally localized in the lungs, which indicate that normal in vivo growth and survival requires oxygen. However, mycobacteria also experience hypoxic conditions in vivo inside macrophages. Thus, M. tuberculosis growth is inhibited when the bacilli are engulfed into granulomas, the inside of which bdjn.org is associated with low oxygen tension. M. tuberculosis enters dormancy in response to hypoxia or exposure to nitric oxide from macrophage. Sensing and responding to environmental stimulus is a critical for cell survival and growth. In bacteria, adaptation to environmental signals is mediated primarily through serinethreonine protein kinases, extra-cytoplasmic function sigma factors, and two-component signal transduction systems (Ashby, 2004). Two-component system (TCS) has been shown to regulate many physiological processes, including sporulation, competence, antibiotic resistance, transition into stationary phase, and virulence (Krell et al., 2010). The TCS is composed of a homodimeric sensor histidine kinase (HK) and its cognate response regulator (RR) protein (Laub and Goulian, 2007). In the prototypical TCS, a HK consists of sensor core, which receives environmental stimuli and kinase core, which transfers the signal to the cognate RR by means of phosphorylation. Kinase core binds ATP through its ATP binding domain (ABD) and autophosphorylates a conserved His in its dimerization and histidine phosphotransferase (DHp) domain (Dutta et al., 1999). The phosphoryl group is then transferred to an Asp in the receiver domain of the RR, activating its output domain to effect cellular changes, often through changes in transcription (Figure 1). Basic two component phosphoryl transfer signal transduction pathway involves three phosphotransfer reactions (autophosphorylation, phosphotransfer, and dephosphorylation) and two phosphoprotein intermediates (phosphorylated HK and phosphorylated RR)(Stock et al., 2000). TCSs are ubiquitous in bacteria while it only presents in some plants, lower eukaryotes, and archaea (Kim and Forst, 2001). The importance of TCSs in bacterial survival and the absence of TCSs in higher eukaryotes also make these systems attractive targets Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design 1 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis FIGURE 1 I Two-component signal transduction system. The prototypical two-component system consists of a histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR). The HK contains a sensor domain recognizing an external signal, DHp domain, at which a conserved H residue is, and ATP binding domain (ABD) while RR consists of receiver domain (REC) and effector domain. Autophosphorylation occurs in the HK, followed by phosphoryl group transfer to a conserved D residue of the RR. A phosphorylated RR binds to a target DNA to regulate downstream genes (Dutta et al., 1999; Francis et al., 2013). for therapeutic development against pathogenic organisms (Barrett and Hoch, 1998). Consistent with this idea, mutant strains that are defective in specific TCSs that lead to virulence attenuation are now being investigated as potential vaccine candidates. M. tuberculosis has evolved several mechanisms to circumvent the hostile environment of the macrophage, its primary host cell (Wayne and Hayes, 1996). Understanding the molecular mechanisms of M. tuberculosis pathogenesis using TCS will provide insights into the development of targetspecific drugs or effective vaccine candidates for the treatment of the disease (Meena and Rajni, 2010). In this review, we summarize current studies on the protein members of TCSs in M. tuberculosis in the structural aspect. TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEMS IN M. TUBERCULOSIS A TCS, MtrA-MtrB system is the first such system to be characterized in the tubercle bacillus (Curcic et al., 1994). Since then, sensor HKs and RRs have been identified in the M. tuberculosis H37Rv genome. Genomic analysis indicates that M. tuberculosis encodes twelve complete TCSs and five remaining potential orphan RR or HK proteins. The TCS are summarized in Table I with their genomic location tags and their nomenclatures. Those are named based on close homologs of known or postulated function (Cole et al., 1998; Morth et al., 2004). M. tuberculosis contains few two-component systems compared to many other bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli, in which there are more than thirty different two-component regulatory systems (Kunst et al., 1997). The number of intact TCSs in M. tuberculosis is lower than that typically found in other bacteria of similar genome size, possibly reflecting the evolution of this bacterium as a strict human pathogen and its adaptation to a predominantly intracellular lifestyle (Cole et al., 1998). MtrA-MtrB system identified in 1994 (Curcic et al., 1994). The RR MtrA modulates M. tuberculosis proliferation in macrophages. This TCS regulates essential physiological processes, including 2 Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design DNA replication and cell wall integrity (Zahrt et al., 2000). The SenX3-RegX3 system was identified as an inorganic phosphatedependent regulator of genes involved in phosphate acquisition (Glover et al., 2007). It was known to responds to phosphate starvation. The PhoP-PhoR system responds to intracellular pH and regulates biosynthesis of complex lipids. It is implicated in regulating production of complex cell wall lipids (Abramovitch et al., 2011). The PrrA-PrrB TCS plays a role in early adaptation to intracellular infection (Ewann et al., 2002) and is essential for in vitro survival (Ewann et al., 2004). Transcription of the genes prrA and prrB is induced under nitrogen limitation and repressed in hypoxia (Haydel et al., 2012). MprA-MprB module responds to stress and regulates expression of the alternative sigma factors (SigB and SigE)(He et al., 2006). Very little is known about the biochemical activity or functional significance of the NarL-NarS TCS. NarL is homologous to those of NarL from E. coli (Schnell et al., 2004), the RR component of the NarQ-NarL TCS. This system regulates genes in response to nitrate concentrations (Stewart, 1993). KdpD-KdpE as homologs in other bacteria, KdpD interacts with the regulator KdpE. KdpDE controls the expression of the adjacent kdpFABC operon in response to K + concentration (Steyn et al., 2003). TrcR-TrcS system is expressed during aerobic growth in culture and at low levels early after infection of human macrophages (Haydel et al., 2002). Two ORFs encoding RR (TcrX) and HK (TcrY) are conserved in all species of Mycobacteria except Mycobacterium leprae (Tyagi and Sharma, 2004). The genes tcrX and tcrX are significantly induced under iron-limitation (Bacon et al., 2003) and during the post-infection period (Haydel et al., 2004), respectively. The structure and sequence analysis suggest that the PdtaS-PdtaR system is structurally equivalent to the EutW-EutV system regulating ethanolamine catabolism in some organisms (Preu et al., 2012). Among the HKs, DosS and DosT function with a single RR, DosR, which functions to up-regulate genes essential for the survival of M. tuberculosis under hypoxic conditions. About 48 bdjn.org Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang TABLE 1 I Two-component systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis HK/RR ORF annotation Signal Function Reference SenX3/RegX3 Rv0490/Rv0491 O2, NO, CO Phosphate (Singh et al., 2014) (Himpens et al., 2000) U/U/TcrA Rv0600c/Rv0601c/ Rv0602c Tetrahydrolipstatin Oxygen sensing Virulence, phosphate uptake, aerobic respiration Involved in small molecule metabolism PhoR/PhoP Rv0758/Rv0757 pH Cell wall components (Abramovitch et al., 2011) NarS/NarL Rv0845/Rv0844c Unknown Unknown (Parish et al., 2003) PrrB/PrrA Rv0902c/Rv0903c Macrophage infection Adaptation to intracellular infection (Ewann et al., 2004) MprB/MprA Rv0982/Rv0981 Detergents Response to stress conditions (Zahrt et al., 2001) KdpD/KdpE Rv1028c/Rv1027c Possibly [K] Predicted potassium uptake system (Parish et al., 2003) TrcS/TrcR Rv1032c/Rv1033c Unknown Unknown (Haydel et al., 1999) DosS/DosR (DosT/DosR) Rv3132c/Rv3133c (Rv2027c/Rv3133c) Low O2, NO, CO Hypoxia sensing (Saini et al., 2004a and b) MtrB/MtrA Rv3245c/Rv3246c Unknown DNA replication and cell wall integrity (Zahrt et al., 2000) TcrY/TcrX Rv3764c/Rv3765c Low iron, starvation Involvement in virulence (Parish et al., 2003) PdtaS/PdtaR Rv3220c/Rv1626 Unknown Unknown (Morth et al., 2005) genes of M. tuberculosis were reported to be induced under hypoxic conditions, as well as on exposure to nitric oxide (Park et al., 2003). The up-regulation of these genes is regulated by the DosS-DosR system (Wayne and Hayes, 1996). Although DosT is structurally very similar to DosS, DosT works as a direct oxygen sensor while DosS functions as a redox sensor (Kumar et al., 2007). Unlike other two component system, a putative HK in M. tuberculosis separated into two proteins, HK1 (Rv0600c) and HK2 (Rv0601c), makes a unique three-protein system with a RR, TcrA (Rv0602c). HK1 and HK2 are both annotated as putative HKs that phosphorylate TcrA (Shrivastava et al., 2006). HK2 gene is up-regulated in response to tetrahydrolipstatin, an antimicrobial agent (Waddell et al., 2004). There are five orphan RRs found in the genome of M. tuberculosis. The genes for those proteins are Rv0195, Rv0260c, Rv0818, Rv2884, and Rv3143. Rv0195 is similar to the member of the LuxR family, and seems to be induced by sodium azide treatment (Boshoff et al., 2004) or nutrient starvation (Betts et al., 2002). Rv0260c has a transcriptional regulatory motif of RRs but also has homology with HemD, an uroporphyrinogen-II synthase. Rv0818 is a homolog of GlnR involved in regulation of nitrogen metabolism, while Rv2884 is an RR of unknown function. In addition, Rv3143 has a receiver domain, but no effector domain, suggesting it may play a role in a phosphorelay system (Zhou et al., 2012). HISTIDINE KINASES HKs are usually membrane proteins, composed of the N-terminal sensor domain, which receives the specific signal, and the bdjn.org (Waddell et al., 2004) C-terminal kinase domain as a transmitter domain (Dutta et al., 1999). The specificity of the system lies in the sensor domain, which recognizes changes in the environment. As HKs can respond to various stimuli, a wide range of sensor domains are found in the periplasmic portions of membranebound HKs (Cheung and Hendrickson, 2010). However, the kinase domain is largely conserved and provides both the site of autophosphorylation and the interaction domain with the RR in cytosol. The C-terminal kinase domain of HKs is generally composed of a DHp domain and a CA domain (Dutta et al., 1999). The DHp domain is the interaction site between two monomers of the HK and is the interface to the RR. Thus, it controls the specificity of the HK and RR interaction (Marina et al., 2005). In HKs, the DHp and CA domains are shown with common intracellular domains PAS (Per Arnt Sim), HAMP (histidine kinase, adenyl cyclase, methyl-accepting proteins, and phosphatase), and GAF (cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase, adenylyl cyclase, and FhlA). Some HKs have multiple copies of such domains (Figure 2a~g). SENSOR DOMAINS Sensor domains of HKs are located outside of cell membrane, in membrane or in cytosol. Currently, there is little structural information of the sensor domains embedded in membrane (Mascher et al., 2006). The prototypical HK has an extra-cytosolic sensor domain that senses extracellular signals or conditions in the cell envelope. These sensor domains have highly diverse sequences. However, most of the known structures of extracytosolic sensor domains fall into three distinct structural folds, Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design 3 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis domain has α-β(2)-α(2)-β(3) structure while GAF domain consists of α(2)-β(3)-αβ(3)-α. The GAF-A domain has a relatively long loop between strands β3 and β4 (a) (b) compared with the PAS domain while the canonical GAF domain has an α-helix in the corresponding loop. Although, topologically, the GAF-A domain of DosS is similar to a PAS domain, its overall folding is that of the canonical GAF domain. However, the canonical GAF domain has a curved six-stranded β-sheet (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) FIGURE 2 I Domain organizations of histidine kinases and a response regulator in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. All histidine kinases (a ~ g) has conserved domains for dimerization and histidine phosphotransferase (DHp) and ATP binding domain (ABD) at their C-terminus. Organization of the N-terminal domains is variable. Typically, transmembrane proteins consisting of extra-cytoplasmic sensor domains, transmembrane helices (TM), and HAMP (histidine kinase, adenyl cyclase, methyl-accepting proteins, and phosphatase) domain. (h) Response regulator is composed of two domains, a conserved N-terminal receiver (REC) domain and a variable C-terminal effector domain. mixed α/β, all-helical, and β-sandwich (Cheung and Hendrickson, 2010). Unlike extra-cytosolic sensor domains, many cytosolic sensor domains can be annotated on the sequence level as PAS or GAF domains (Hefti et al., 2004; Martinez et al., 2002). Sensor domains currently revealed in HKs of M. tuberculosis are also GAF and PAS domains. The amino acid sequence and spectroscopic analyses of SenX3 suggest it has a PAS domain containing a heme as the sensor domain (Rickman et al., 2004). DosS and DosT have two GAF domains in their sensor core. By amino acid sequence analysis, they had been suggested to have two transmembrane helices in their N-terminal domains implying membrane anchoring. However, the crystal structures of GAF domain revealed those helices are a part of GAF domains (Cho et al., 2007; Podust et al., 2008). The N-terminal GAF and PAS tandem domain structure of PdtaS is determined and expected to play a role for sensor domain (Preu et al., 2012). GAF domains play important roles as regulatory elements found in many proteins from various organisms and are known to be small molecule binding domains. Many GAF-containing proteins have two GAF domains in tandem and the two domains have separate functions, binding a cyclic nucleotide and dimerization (Martinez et al., 2002 and 2005). The two GAF domains in the M. tuberculosis DosS and DosT proteins are also arranged in tandem and the first GAF domain (GAF-A) contains a heme (Sardiwal et al., 2005). The GAF-A consists of the sheet and two a-helices on each side of the sheet with the secondary structure order of α-β(2)-α(2)-β(3)-α (Figure 3a). It is topologically similar to the PAS domain found in the E. coli protein Dos (Figure 3b). Both PAS and GAF domains belong to the Profilin-like domain family, which have an α+β protein with α-β-α layers. The canonical PAS 4 Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design forming a half-barrel structure containing a cyclic nucleotide, while the sheet of GAF-A is five-stranded and rather flat (Cho et al., 2007). In the heme-bound GAF-A, a long peptide region containing two helices (α2 and α3) connects strands β2 to β3 at each end of the sheet. This peptide crosses over the sheet with a space existing between a loop connecting the α2 and α3 helices and the sheet. The space is covered by two loops connecting strands β1 to β2, and strands β3 to β4 at the top and bottom positions completing the inside cavity. A b-type heme is tightly packed into the cavity and at the proximal position of the heme a histidine is provided from a loop connecting the β3 and β4 strands. The plane of the heme is roughly perpendicular to the sheet. It differs from that in the PAS domain, in which a heme is inserted into a crevice formed between an α-helix and the β-sheet. The plane of the heme is parallel to the β-sheet (Figure 3a, 3b) (Cho et al., 2007). DosT is structurally similar to DosS and also has a heme at its GAF-A. The heme group is embedded in a defined space surrounded by hydrophobic residues and the route from outside of the protein to the iron in heme is limited to a channel in DosS and DosT GAF-As. The structure of DosT GAF-A reveals a wide pore on the protein surface providing a potential route for the access of O2 to the sensing pocket (Podust et al., 2008). DosT GAF-A has a wide-open channel while DosS GAF-A has a narrow, bent channel. In DosS GAF-A, the channel to the heme iron is completely blocked by the side chain of Glu87 in the middle of the channel when it faces the heme. The channel in DosT GAF-A is always open due to the absence of a side chain at Gly85 (corresponding to Glu87 in DosS GAF-A) (Figure 3d, 3e). The elimination of the side chain in DosS GAF-A to open the channel to the heme by mutations of Glu87 to Ala or Gly increases the accessibility of O 2 to the heme. Although DosS is structurally similar to DosT, which is a direct oxygen sensor, DosS GAF plays as a redox sensor because it loses its electron before O2 approaches the heme (Cho et al., 2011). In hypoxic condition, DosT loses O2 through the widely open channel, while DosS senses this condition through the reduction of heme to bdjn.org Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang (a) (d) (b) (e) (c) (f) FIGURE 3 I Structures of cytosolic sensor domains. (a) Ribbon diagram of DosS GAF-A showing an α-β-α layer with five-stranded antiparallel β-sheet. The plane of the heme is perpendicular to the sheet (Cho et al., 2009). (b) A PAS domain containing a heme from Escherichia coli. The plane of the heme is parallel to the β-sheet (Cho et al., 2009). (c) The GAF-B domain of DevS consists of a six-stranded antiparallel β-sheet and three α-helices. The structures from DosT (d) and DosS (e) GAF-A are presented with ribbon and mesh, which are sectioned to show the internal channel. Heme and side chain of E87 are shown as sticks. Arrows indicate the channel (Cho et al., 2011). (f) Ribbon diagram of the N-terminal sensor domain of PdtaS consisted of GAF and PAS domains. For the connectivity, the invisible linker between GAF and PAS domain and the disordered region in the GAF domain are shown with purple and grey lines, respectively (Preu et al., 2012). ferrous state by abundant reduced FAD due to the depletion of final electron acceptor O2. DosS from M. tuberculosis has been also called as DevS. The structure of GAF-B domain of M. smegmatis DevS was determined and the overall folding of similar to the GAF-A domain of DosS. However, it has an additional strand in front of the α3-helix completing the six-stranded β-sheet, which is a key feature of a GAF-domain. The strongly curved β–sheet of GAF-B forms a half barrel (Lee et al., 2008). This GAF domain is structurally similar to the GAF domains from other proteins containing cGMP, cAMP or biliverdin molecules in their binding pockets (Wagner et al., 2005; Yang et al., 2007). Unlike these GAF domains, a short loop of DevS GAF-B connecting strands β4 and β5 does not contain the α-helix forming the binding cavity in the other GAF domains. Two loops connecting the β2 and β3 strands and the β4 and β5 strands are located close to the inside of the half-barrel structure. There is no space for cyclic nucleotide binding in the structure of DevS GAF-B (Figure 3c). Unlike other GAF domains binding cAMP or cGMP, in which several hydrophilic residues are involved in the binding, GAF-B of DosS and DosT have hydrophobic residues in the positions for the hydrophilic residues, implying that these GAF-B are not suitable to bind a small ligand such as cyclic nucleotides (Lee et al., 2008). PdtaS is a cytosolic histidine kinase like DosS and DosT. It has bdjn.org GAF and PAS domains in tandem at its N-terminal sensor core (Figure 3f). The structure of complete N-terminal sensor region of PdtaS from M. tuberculosis reveals closely linked GAF and PAS domains (Preu et al., 2012). PAS domains bind a variety of substrates including chromophores, heme, and flavin nucleotides (Taylor and Zhulin, 1999). In the structure of PdtaS PAS domain, the internal cavity is apparently too small to hold a heme or other small chromophores. The full-length PdtaS exists in equilibrium between a monomeric and dimeric, and the N-terminal region of the protein is known to form dimers. In the crystal a moleculemolecule interface suggests that the dimer interface consists of PAS–PAS, GAF–GAF and PAS–GAF interactions. A dimeric structure is in a head-to-tail arrangement; relative to the long axis of the dimer, equivalent domains are at opposite ends of the long axis. However, the C-termini of the domains are close together allowing the formation of the coiled-coil structure of the DHp domains (Preu et al., 2012). By sequence analysis SenX3 is revealed to have a PAS domain that in other proteins is known to function as an input module that senses oxygen and redox potential (Rickman et al., 2005). This PAS domain contains a heme and is presumed to work as a sensor for an oxygen-controlled replication switch (Singh et al., 2014). Null mutations in the sensor genes are indeed attenuated but show a persistence phenotype (Rickman et al., 2004). The virulence factor SenX3 is a heme protein that acts as a three-way Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design 5 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) FIGURE 4 I Sequence alignment and structures of the ATP binding domains. (a) Amino acid sequences of thirteen ABDs from Mycobacterium tuberculosis HKs and ABD from Bacillus subtilis DesK were compared. These are divided into two groups according to the presence or absence of an F box. PrrB, TrcS, TcrY, PhoR, SenX3, MprB, MtrB, KdpD, and Rv0600c have an ATP lid (between the F and G2 boxes) and conserved F and R residues in their F boxes. DosS, DosT, NarS, PdtaS, and DesK have short sequences between the G1 and G2 boxes. Secondary structural (blue helices and yellow strands) above the sequences are based on DosS and PrrB structures for each group. Conserved amino acid residues are shaded grey, and conserved residues among the group members are shown by red (Cho et al., 2013). PhoQ (PDB ID 1IDO) (b) and PrrB (PDB ID 1YSR) (c) show a typical two-layer α/β sandwich structure. The helices and the strands are colored by red and yellow, respectively. The nucleotide is shown as sticks and the ATP lid is purple. Superimposition of the DosS ABD (green) (d) and DosT ABD (blue) (e) on the PhoQ ABD (orange) bound to an ATP analog. The ATP is surrounded by the F box helix and long ATP lid. A loop between β3 and α3 in the DosS and DosT ABD overlies the ATP binding site (Cho et al., 2013). sensor with three levels of activity. The oxidation of SenX3 heme by oxygen leads to the activation of its kinase activity, whereas the deoxy-ferrous state confers a moderate kinase activity. The binding of nitric oxide and carbon monoxide inhibits kinase activity (Singh et al., 2014). Consistent with these biochemical properties, the SenX3 mutant of M. tuberculosis is capable of attaining a non-replicating persistent state in response to hypoxic stress, but its regrowth upon the restoration of ambient oxygen levels is significantly attenuated compared to the wild type and the complemented mutant strains. ATP BINDING DOMAINS During the autophosphorylation reaction of the kinase core, the ABD transfers a phosphate group from ATP to the His in the DHp domain. The ABD not only binds ATP but also interacts with the DHp dimer. The structures of the ABDs are well conserved in HKs and it has α/β sandwich fold consisted of two layers, a layer of mixed five-stranded β-sheet and a layer of three α-helices (Figure 4b). ABDs of HKs generally have conserved boxes for ATP binding. Those are N box, F box, and three G boxes containing the conserved residues, Asn, Phe, and Gly, respectively (Dutta et al., 1999). ABDs also usually have an ATP lid, which covers 6 Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design the nucleotide. It is a long characteristic loop between the F and G2 boxes and exhibits a variety of conformations in the absence of nucleotide (Nowak et al., 2006; Marina et al., 2001). Charged residues in the ATP lid are conserved for the interaction to the nucleotide beta-phosphate. The ATP lid is known to play a role for kinase activity and to protect ATP from futile reactions (Casino et al., 2009). The amino acid sequences alignment of ABDs with conceptually translated ABDs of other known HK genes from M. tuberculosis H37Rv, revealed that the domains can be divided into two groups. One contains both the conserved F box and the ATP lid, known to be involved in ATP binding, and the other is without either of these motifs. The former group includes ABDs of PrrB, TrcS, TcrY, PhoR, SenX3, MprB, MtrB, KdpD, and Rv0600c, and those belong to the OmpR family. DosS, DosT, NarS, and PdtaS belong to the latter group (Figure 4a). The ABD structures of PrrB (Nowak et al., 2006), DosS and DosT ABD have been determined among the HKs of M. tuberculosis (Cho et al., 2013). Those structures have the canonical structure. PrrB ABD (Nowak et al., 2006) consists of a single domain with a two-layer α/β sandwich. A mixed five-stranded β sheet with the strand order of 2-4-5-7-6 is on one side and three α helices (α1, α2, and α3) are bdjn.org Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang on the other. The ATP lid in the structure (a) (b) of PrrB ABD is not visible suggesting that the ATP lid undergo a conformational change (Figure 4c). The crystal structures of DosS and DosT ABDs, which do not have both F box and ATP lid motif, are determined. The structures revealed that they do not contain a sufficiently large peptide region to form a complete ATP lid motif, as found in other HKs. The ATP binding sites are in a closed state for ATP binding (Figure 4d, e). The DosS and DosT ABD requires conformational changes in the loop region to anchor ATP and guide it to the DHp in the absence of an ATP lid. Structural analyses and FIGURE 5 I Arrangement of helices in DHp dimer. (a) Ribbon diagram of DHp domains found in autophosphorylation assays of wild-type Escherichia coli EnvZ (PDB ID 3ZRX). Two DHp domains are packed forming an antiparallel four helical and mutant DosS kinase core suggest bundle (left). The conserved histidine (H342) shown as stick are exposed (right). (b) The cartoon looking down the four-helix bundle (α1 and α2 from one domain and α1’ and α2’ from another domain) and that an interaction between the DHp two ATP binding domains (CA and CA’) of the DHp domain dimer (left) and the arrangement of the four domain and ABD is required, not only for helices (right). The connection of the helices is portrayed by an arrow, and the linker between domains is autophosphorylation, but also to trigger depicted as a curve. Depending on loop handedness in the DHp dimer, the ATP binding domain is closer to either the histidine on the same chain (cis) (top) or the histidine on the opposite chain (trans) (bottom) the opening of the ATP binding site. Ionic (Ashenberg et al., 2013). interactions between Arg440 in DHp domain and Glu537 in ABD are involved in the activation step for ATP binding to DosS (Cho et al., 2013). posits that the handedness of a loop connecting two helices DIMERIZATION AND HISTIDINE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE DOMAIN DHp domain contains the phosphate-accepting histidine, which is absolutely conserved in HKs and is the signature motifs defining a HK. The histidine residue is the site for autophosphorylation and subsequent transfer of the phosphoryl group to cognate RRs (Dutta et al., 1999). Although there is no structure for the DHp domains from M. tuberculosis HKs yet, one can expect that the structures of the DHp domains based on the structures of other HKs, such as DesK from Bacillus subtilis (Albanesi et al., 2009) and HK853 from Thermotoga maritima (Marina et al., 2005). DHp domains of DesK and HK853 show sequence similarity to those of DosS (32% sequence identity) and TcrY (36% sequence identity) representing each of the two M. tuberculosis HK groups arranged by ABD, respectively. DHp domain consists of two long α-helices (α1 and α2) that form an antiparallel coiled-coil and it has conserved histidine residue on helix α1 and highly solvent exposed. DHp domain participates in dimerization of the HK through the association of two protomers forming a four-helix bundle (Figure 5a). HKs function as dimers in which usually one monomer catalyzes phosphorylation of the histidine residue in the other monomers. It is called “trans-autophosphorylation”. Some HKs is known to catalyze its phosphorylation in “cis” mode. The ABD of one monomer phosphorylates the histidine in the same monomer. Based on structural considerations, one model bdjn.org of DHp domain at the base of the helical dimerization plays a critical role (Ferris et al., 2012). Helix bundle loops determine whether HKs autophosphorylate in cis or in trans (Ashenberg et al., 2013). Depending on loop handedness in the DHp domain, the ABD is closer to either the histidine on the same chain (cis) or the histidine on the opposite chain (trans) (Ashenberg et al., 2013) as shown HK853 (PDB ID 2C2A) (Marina et al., 2005) or EnvZ (PDB ID 3ZRX) (Ferris et al., 2012), respectively (Figure 5b). Structural studies for DHp domains in M. tuberculosis HKs would be necessary for the understanding of the autophosphorylation mechanism. RESPONSE REGULATORS Common RRs are consisted two major domains, a conserved receiver domain and variable effector domain at its N- and C-terminus, respectively (Figure 2h). Effector domains, which are also called as output domains become activated upon phosphorylation. In most cases, the effector domain is a DNA binding domain regulating transcriptional initiation (Gao et al., 2009; Stewart, 2010). The receiver domains of the RRs are conserved and have three activities. One, catalysis of phosphoryl transfer reaction from the phosphorylated histidine of the DHp domain to the aspartate of receiver domain; Two, autodephosphorylation of the aspartate; and three, regulation of the activity of the effector domain in a phosphorylationdependent manner (West et al., 2001). Since the majority of RRs are transcription regulators, their Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design 7 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (a) (c) (b) (d) (f) HKs to their cognate RRs in TCS. The receiver domain is also known as the phosphorylation domain or regulatory domain. A conserved aspartate residue i n t h e re c e i v e r d o m a i n a c c e p t s a phosphoryl group from a cognate HK (Dutta et al., 1999). The receiver domain structures of eight RRs (RegX3, PhoP, NarL, PrrA, DosR, MtrA, PdtaR and an orphan RR, GlnR) in M. tuberculosis (e) (g) have been determined and display their structural similarity. Amino acid sequence alignment analyses show the remnant RRs (TcrA, NarL, MprA, KdpE, TrcR, and TcrX) also have a similar receiver domain in their N-terminus linked to their DNA binding domains (Shrivastava et al., 2006; Cho et al., 2014). The receiver domain has a conserved (β/α) 5 structure. Alternating β strands and α helices fold into a five-stranded parallel β-sheet surrounded by two α-helices on one side and three α-helices on the other side. Six functionally important residues (three Asp/Glu, one Thr/Ser, one Tyr/Phe, and one Lys) are conserved for phosphorylation of the receiver domain and the activation of the effector domain (Stock et al., 1989; Bourret et al., 1990). The two consecutive acidic FIGURE 6 I Receiver domain structures of response regulators from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. residues located in the β1-α1 loop (a) Superimposition of the receiver domains of four response regulators, PhoP (PDB ID 3ROJ), NarL (PDB coordinate a Mg2+ ion and the phosphorID 3EUL), PrrA (PDB ID 1YS6), and MtrA (PDB ID 3NHZ), which are presented in yellow, green, blue, and magenta, respectively. (b) PhoP dimerization is through a two-fold symmetrical interaction of α4-β5-α5 accepting Asp are in the β3-α3 loop motifs of the receiver domain. (c)~(e) The cartoon diagrams for the receiver domains of RegX3 (PDB (Stock et al., 1993). The carboxylate ID 2OQR), DosR (PDB ID 3C3W) and GlnR (PDB ID 4O1I) colored by secondary-structural elements oxygen of the Asp residue executes (α-helices, cyan; β-strands, magenta). (f) Comparison of the phosphorylation site in NarL (yellow) from M. tuberculosis with the active site of histidinol phosphate phosphatase (slate) from E. coli (PDB ID 2FPW). nucleophilic attack on the phosphorus The phospho-aspartyl intermediate is formed at D57, and the catalytic Mg2+ is replaced by Ca2+ (a atom for the phosphorylation of the green sphere)(Schnell et al., 2008). (g) Proposed model of DosR autodephosphorylation for nucleophilic receiver domain (Bourret, 2010). substitution. A water molecule positioned and activated by the hydroxyl group of S83 performs a nucleophilic in-line attack on the phosphorus, causing a planar PO3 transition state coordinated by The conserved Lys residue located conserved T82, K104, and the Mg2+. Residue numbers of histidinol phosphate phosphatase are in the in the β5-α5 loop forms an ionic parentheses (Cho et al., 2014). interaction with the phosphoaspartate in the phosphorylated RR (Lukat et effector domains are DNA-binding domains. A significant fraction al., 1991). Autodephosphorylation of the phosphoaspartate of RRs have effector domains as enzymes. Other RRs have is presumed to proceed through a similar mechanism to the effector domains binding to RNA, ligands, or proteins regulating autophosphorylation, but in reverse. A water molecule performs cellular process (Galperin, 2010). Some RRs consist of an nucleophilic in-line attack on the phosphorus. The conserved isolated receiver domain alone. Those regulate target effectors Thr/Ser, conserved Lys, and Mg2+ ion stabilize the planar PO3 through intermolecular interactions with functional proteins as transition state. shown in the chemotaxis protein CheY (Halkides et al., 2000). PhoP has a canonical receiver domain structure in its N-terminus (Menon et al., 2011). Like other receiver domains RECEIVER DOMAINS from the OmpR subfamily, it has a (βα)5 fold and the central fiveReceiver domains have well conserved structure and sequences, stranded parallel β-sheet is surrounded by α1 and α5 helices on suggesting a common mechanism to transfer signals from one side and α2, α3, and α4 helices on the other side (Figure 6a). 8 Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design bdjn.org Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang The β-strands are mainly composed of hydrophobic residues and the α-helices are amphipathic. The side facing the β-sheet is composed of hydrophobic residues while hydrophilic residues are exposed to solvent. PhoP forms a dimer through the α4β5-α5 motif of the receiver domain. The dimer with this interface has been proposed to be the active conformation (Figure 6b). The receiver domains of PrrA (Nowak et al., 2006), MtrA (Barbieri et al., 2010), PdtaR (Morth et al., 2004), and NarL (Schnell et al., 2008) also have the expected (βα)5 topology, with five parallel strands forming the hydrophobic core surrounded by two helices (α1 and α5) on one side and three (α2–α4) on the other (Figure 6a). The phosphorylation site is conserved Asp located in the loop at the C-terminal end of β3 strand and the site is covered by a flexible loop between α3 and β3. The N-terminal receiver domain of DosR contains an α/β fold with a (βα)4 arrangement unlike the typical receiver domain. The canonical secondary structure elements α4 and β5 appear to be absent from the DosR structure (Figure 6c). Surprisingly, the DosR α4 helix is positioned where α5 helix in the canonical structures of other members the subfamily is located. The catalytic Asp54 residue is located in the β3-α3 loop surrounded by the conserved Asp8 and Asp9 residues from the β1-α1 loop from the same subunit (Wisedchaisri et al., 2008). The monomer of RegX3 has an apparently incomplete receiver domain consisted of four-stranded parallel β-sheet and three α-helices. Four-stranded β-sheet is flanked by α1 helix on one side of the β-sheet and by α2 and α3 helices on the other side (Figure 6d) (King-Scott et al., 2007). It seems to be a conformational change in α4 helix of the receiver domain like DosR (Cho et al., 2014). Inactive MtrA forms an extensive interface between the receiver and effector domains over the α4-β5-α5 face of the regulatory domain, the transactivation loop (α7-α8 loop) and the recognition helix (α8) of the DNA-binding motif. Those functionally important surfaces of each domain are sequestered (Friedland et al., 2007). In the active state, the α4-β5-α5 face is proposed to mediate dimerization of the regulatory domains, and the recognition helix and transactivation loop play roles for interactions with DNA and RNA polymerase, respectively. GlnR considered an orphan RR because its cognate HK has not been identified. Its receiver domain have canonical structure consisted of five β-strands and five α-helices except that α1, α2, and α4 helices are partially unwound (Figure 6e). The two GlnR monomers form a homodimer through their α4-β5-α5 and the interface is essential for its physiological function (Lin et al., 2014). EFFECTOR DOMAINS Based on sequence similarity and structure of the effector domain, RRs can be classified into subfamilies such as OmpR, NarL, NtrC, LytR, ActR, and YesN-like subfamily (Stock et al., 2000). More than 60% of RRs contain a DNA binding domain as an effector domain and they are divided into subfamilies based on the fold of DNA binding domain. Other subfamilies include RRs containing RNA binding domains, a variety of enzymatic bdjn.org domains or protein-protein interaction domains (Galperin, 2006; Gao et al., 2007). All RRs in M. tuberculosis have a DNA binding domain except PdtaR, which contains a RNA binding domain (Morth et al., 2004). DNA binding domains of M. tuberculosis RRs can be grouped into two groups, NarL and OmpR families, which have Helix-turn-helix (HTH) motif and winged HTH (wHTH) motif, respectively. RRs containing wHTH motif are SenX3, TcrA, PhoP, PrrA, MprA, KdpE, TrcR, MtrA, and TcrX, and they belong to OmpR-like subfamily (Martínez-Hackert et al., 1997). NarL and DosR have HTH motif and belong to NarL-like subfamily (Baikalov et al., 1996). HTH motifs are found in all DNA binding proteins regulating gene expression. The motif consists of about twenty residues and is characterized by two α-helices. They are joined by a short turn and make close contacts with the DNA. The second α-helix of the motif fits into the major groove of the DNA with specific interactions between the side chains and the exposed bases, while the first α-helix helps to stabilize the position of the second α-helix. The wHTH motif consists of three α-helices (H1, H2, H3) and three- or four-stranded β-sheet (wing). The H2-H3 region forms a HTH motif and the DNA recognition helix (H3) makes sequence-specific DNA contacts at the major groove, while the wing makes DNA contacts at the minor groove or the backbone of DNA. Many proteins with wHTH motif present an exposed hydrophobic patch to mediate protein-protein interactions (Martínez-Hackert et al., 1997). M. tuberculosis PhoP, which belongs to the OmpR subfamily, the largest subfamily of RRs (Wang et al., 2007) has the typical structure of the wHTH motif in the C-terminal effector domain. The domain starts with a four-stranded antiparallel β-sheet, followed by three α-helices and a β-hairpin structure (Figure 7a). In solution it exists predominantly as a monomer (Menon et al., 2011). The effector domains of PrrA (Nowak et al., 2006), RegX3 (King-Scott et al., 2007) and MtrA (Friedland et al., 2007) (Figure 7b~d, respectively), another OmpR family members have also a winged helix fold composed of a four-stranded antiparallel β-sheet followed by a three-helix bundle and a C-terminal β-hairpin. The DNA recognition helix (α8) of RegX3 is fully exposed to the solvent as the case for the OmpR family members DrrB (Robinson et al., 2003) and DrrD (Buckler et al., 2002). DosR as a member of the NarL subfamily has C-terminal domain containing four α-helices (α7, α8, α9 and α10) on the basis of sequence alignment of the protein family (Wisedchaisri et al., 2005). The crystal structures of the DosR effector domain and its complex with DNA confirm that DosR is a member of the NarL subfamily of RRs. A dimer of DosR effector domain is the functional unit for DNA binding where the residues in the α10 helix form the dimerization interface (Figure 7e). Two DNA-binding dimers gather to form a tetramer through α7 and α8 helices of the effector domain. The crystal structure of fulllength unphosphorylated DosR reveals a novel topology of the N-terminal receiver domain and a unique conformation for the Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design 9 Two component signaling systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (a) (b) (e) (c) (d) (f) (g) FIGURE 7 I Effector domain structures of response regulators from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (a)~(d) Effector domains of PhoP (PDB ID 2PMU) (a), PrrA (PDB ID 1YS6) (b), RegX3 (PDB ID 2OQR) (c), and MtrA (PDB ID 2GWR) (d), which have a wHTH motif. (e) A dimer of DosR effector domains binding DNA. The key residues for the interaction (T198, V202, and T205) for the dimerization are on the helix α10, and a9 helices are inserted in the major groove (Wisedchaisri et al., 2005). (f) Superposition of the three different structures of DosR C-terminal domain are superimposed; the domains from the full-length protein (green), a complex with DNA (orange), and in crystal form II (cyan) (20). (g) The HTH motif of PdtaR effector domain (PDB ID 1S8N). Ribbon diagram (left) and the superimposition (rignt) of the motif of PdtaR (red) on that of ANTAR domains of AmiR (Cyan) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The side chains believed to be involved in tertiary structure organization are shown in ball-and-stick (Morth et al., 2004). C-terminal effector domain. The effector domain in the full-length DosR structure shows a novel position of α10 helix, which allows Gln199 to interact with the catalytic Asp54 residue of the receiver domain, while the structure of the DosR effector domain alone displays an unstructured conformation for α10 helix, indicating considerable flexibility (Figure 7f). Activation of DosR induced by phosphorylation is though conformation changes by a helix rearrangement (Wisedchaisri et al., 2008). PdtaR contains an RNA binding domain only found in M. tuberculosis (Morth et al., 2004). The C-terminal effector domain of PdtaR is structurally homologous to the ANTAR domain of AmiR from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It is known to be involved in transcriptional antitermination (Shu et al., 2002). It has a helical bundle made of three α-helices and the geometrical arrangement of helices in the ANTAR domain is highly conserved between the domains (Figure 7g). It seems likely that the binding mode of 10 Bio Design l Vol.3 l No.1 l Mar 30, 2015 © 2015 Bio Design PdtaR is similar to that of NarL to DNA. AUTODEPHOSPHORYLATION Phosphorylation on the receiver domain facilitates a conformational alteration affecting RR to work as a transcriptional activator. Genes activated in this manner tend to remain active until the RR is deactivated by dephosphorylation (West et al., 2001). In many TCS, the primary route of RR dephosphorylation is through the phosphatase activity of other proteins. RR is also dephosphorylated by its cognate HK or by itself called “autodephosphorylation”. The active site in the receiver domain of RRs is similar to that of members of the haloacid dehalogenase (HAD) family, a family of phosphatases, because it also forms a phospho-aspartyl intermediate (Seifried et al., 2013; Rangarajan et al., 2006). An aspartic acid acting as the catalytic acid/base in HAD enzymes is substituted by an arginine in bdjn.org Ha Yeon Cho and Beom Sik Kang NarL (Figure 6f). It is unlikely to participate in the step of proton abstraction. This replacement may prolong the phospho-aspartyl state. Among RRs in M. tuberculosis, NarL has high sequence similarity to DosR, and autophosphorylated DosS can transfers its phosphate group not only to DosR but also to NarL. Phosphorylated DosR is more rapidly dephosphorylated than phosphorylated NarL. DosR and NarL differ with respect to the amino acids at positions T + 1 and T + 2 around the phosphorylation sites in the N-terminal receiver domain; DosR has Ser83 and Tyr84, whereas NarL has Ala90 and His91. A DosR Ser83Ala mutant shows prolonged phosphorylation. Structural comparison with a histidinol phosphate phosphatase (Figure 6g) suggests that the Ser83 at the T + 1 position provides space for a water molecule and its hydroxyl group is involved in the activation of the water molecule for the triggering of autodephosphorylation (Cho et al., 2014). REFERENCES CONCLUDING REMARKS Barbieri, C.M., Mack, T.R., Robinson, V.L., Miller, M.T., and Stock, A.M. (2010). Regulation of response regulator autophosphorylation through interdomain contacts. J Biol Chem 285, 32325-32335. Here, we summarize the current structural studies on the TCS proteins from M. tuberculosis. HKs have conserved ABD and DHp domains, while receiver domain and effector domain of RRs are structurally very preserved. PAS and GAF domains are frequently used as sensor domains, while most of RR has a DNA binding domain containing HTH or wHTH. The domains of essential proteins for survival of M. tuberculosis and could be potential antituberculosis drug targets. 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