Transcription Factor

Accessions: ECK120005002 (RegulonDB 7.5)
Names: LexA
Organisms: ECK12
Libraries: RegulonDB 7.5 1
1 Salgado H, Peralta-Gil M, Gama-Castro S, Santos-Zavaleta A, Muniz-Rascado L, Garcia-Sotelo JS, Weiss V, Solano-Lira H, Martinez-Flores I, Medina-Rivera A, Salgado-Osorio G, Alquicira-Hernandez S, Alquicira-Hernandez K, Lopez-Fuentes A, Porron-Sotelo L, Huerta AM, Bonavides-Martinez C, Balderas-Martinez YI, Pannier L, Olvera M, Labastida A, Jimenez-Jacinto V, Vega-Alvarado L, Del Moral-Chavez V, Hernandez-Alvarez A, Morett E, Collado-Vides J. RegulonDB v8.0: omics data sets, evolutionary conservation, regulatory phrases, cross-validated gold standards and more. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan 1;41(D1):D203-D213. [Pubmed]
Notes: SOS response; transcription, DNA-dependent; repressor; regulon; Transcription related; cytoplasm; transcriptionally active chromatin; serine-type endopeptidase activity; regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent; hydrolase activity; response to DNA damage stimulus; proteolysis; DNA replication; DNA binding; DNA repair
Length: 203
Pfam Domains: 1-65 LexA DNA binding domain
114-180 Peptidase S24-like
Sequence:
(in bold interface residues)
1 MKALTARQQEVFDLIRDHISQTGMPPTRAEIAQRLGFRSPNAAEEHLKALARKGVIEIVS 60
61 GASRGIRLLQEEEEGLPLVGRVAAGEPLLAQQHIEGHYQVDPSLFKPNADFLLRVSGMSM 120
121 KDIGIMDGDLLAVHKTQDVRNGQVVVARIDDEVTVKRLKKQGNKVELLPENSEFKPIVVD 180
181 LRQQSFTIEGLAVGVIRNGDWL*
Interface Residues: 28, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45
3D-footprint Homologues: 3jso_B
Binding Motifs: LexA waCTGtATAwAwawmCAGya
Binding Sites: ECK120012772
ECK120012774
ECK120012875
ECK120012890
ECK120012898
ECK120012901
ECK120012903
ECK120013419
ECK120013837
ECK120015229
ECK120015620
ECK120015626
ECK120015628
ECK120015705
ECK120015707
ECK120015709
ECK120015711
ECK120015767
ECK120015769
ECK120015969
ECK120016101
ECK120016106
ECK120016145
ECK120019269
ECK120019273
ECK120019275
ECK120033006
ECK120033008
ECK120033346
ECK120048800
ECK120048802
ECK120048804
ECK120048806
ECK120048810
ECK120048812
ECK120048814
ECK120051321
ECK120051386
ECK125108646
Publications: Luo Y., Pfuetzner RA., Mosimann S., Paetzel M., Frey EA., Cherney M., Kim B., Little JW., Strynadka NC. Crystal structure of LexA: a conformational switch for regulation of self-cleavage. Cell. 106(5):585-94 (2001). [Pubmed]

Schnarr M., Granger-Schnarr M., Hurstel S., Pouyet J. The carboxy-terminal domain of the LexA repressor oligomerises essentially as the entire protein. FEBS Lett. 234(1):56-60 (1988). [Pubmed]

Little JW., Mount DW., Yanisch-Perron CR. Purified lexA protein is a repressor of the recA and lexA genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 78(7):4199-203 (1981). [Pubmed]

Mohana-Borges R., Pacheco AB., Sousa FJ., Foguel D., Almeida DF., Silva JL. LexA repressor forms stable dimers in solution. The role of specific dna in tightening protein-protein interactions. J Biol Chem. 275(7):4708-12 (2000). [Pubmed]

Erill I., Escribano M., Campoy S., Barbe J. In silico analysis reveals substantial variability in the gene contents of the gamma proteobacteria LexA-regulon. Bioinformatics. 19(17):2225-36 (2003). [Pubmed]

Walker GC. Mutagenesis and inducible responses to deoxyribonucleic acid damage in Escherichia coli. Microbiol Rev. 48(1):60-93 (1984). [Pubmed]

Gillor O., Vriezen JA., Riley MA. The role of SOS boxes in enteric bacteriocin regulation. Microbiology. 154(Pt 6):1783-92 (2008). [Pubmed]

Zhang AP., Pigli YZ., Rice PA. Structure of the LexA-DNA complex and implications for SOS box measurement. Nature. 466(7308):883-6 (2010). [Pubmed]

Krueger JH., Elledge SJ., Walker GC. Isolation and characterization of Tn5 insertion mutations in the lexA gene of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 153(3):1368-78 (1983). [Pubmed]

Brown MH., Paulsen IT., Skurray RA. The multidrug efflux protein NorM is a prototype of a new family of transporters. Mol Microbiol. 31(1):394-5 (1999). [Pubmed]

Butala M., Zgur-Bertok D., Busby SJ. The bacterial LexA transcriptional repressor. Cell Mol Life Sci. 66(1):82-93 (2009). [Pubmed]

d'Ari R. The SOS system. Biochimie. 67(3-4):343-7 (1985). [Pubmed]

Fernandez De Henestrosa AR., Ogi T., Aoyagi S., Chafin D., Hayes JJ., Ohmori H., Woodgate R. Identification of additional genes belonging to the LexA regulon in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol. 35(6):1560-72 (2000). [Pubmed]

Brent R., Ptashne M. The lexA gene product represses its own promoter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 77(4):1932-6 (1980). [Pubmed]

Chen Z., Yang H., Pavletich NP. Mechanism of homologous recombination from the RecA-ssDNA/dsDNA structures. Nature. 453(7194):489-4 (2008). [Pubmed]

Cox MM. Regulation of bacterial RecA protein function. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 42(1):41-63 (2007). [Pubmed]

Giese KC., Michalowski CB., Little JW. RecA-dependent cleavage of LexA dimers. J Mol Biol. 377(1):148-61 (2008). [Pubmed]

Little JW. Mechanism of specific LexA cleavage: autodigestion and the role of RecA coprotease. Biochimie. 73(4):411-21 (1991). [Pubmed]

Butala M., Klose D., Hodnik V., Rems A., Podlesek Z., Klare JP., Anderluh G., Busby SJ., Steinhoff HJ., Zgur-Bertok D. Interconversion between bound and free conformations of LexA orchestrates the bacterial SOS response. Nucleic Acids Res (2011). [Pubmed]

Mazon G., Erill I., Campoy S., Cortes P., Forano E., Barbe J. Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the LexA-binding sequence. Microbiology. 150(Pt 11):3783-95 (2004). [Pubmed]

Fogh RH., Ottleben G., Ruterjans H., Schnarr M., Boelens R., Kaptein R. Solution structure of the LexA repressor DNA binding domain determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy. EMBO J. 13(17):3936-44 (1994). [Pubmed]
Related annotations: PaperBLAST

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