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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 281, Issue 42, 32015-32024, October 20, 2006

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Allosteric Control of Cyclic di-GMP Signaling^*

Beat Christen¹, Matthias Christen¹, Ralf Paul, Franziska Schmid, Marc Folcher, Paul Jenoe, Markus Meuwly, and Urs Jenal²

From the Biozentrum and the Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

Cyclic di-guanosine monophosphate is a bacterial second messenger that has been implicated in biofilm formation, antibiotic resistance, and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in their animal host. Although the enzymes responsible for the regulation of cellular levels of c-di-GMP, diguanylate cyclases (DGC) and phosphodiesterases, have been identified recently, little information is available on the molecular mechanisms involved in controlling the activity of these key enzymes or on the specific interactions of c-di-GMP with effector proteins. By using a combination of genetic, biochemical, and modeling techniques we demonstrate that an allosteric binding site for c-di-GMP (I-site) is responsible for non-competitive product inhibition of DGCs. The I-site was mapped in both multi- and single domain DGC proteins and is fully contained within the GGDEF domain itself. In vivo selection experiments and kinetic analysis of the evolved I-site mutants led to the definition of an RXXD motif as the core c-di-GMP binding site. Based on these results and based on the observation that the I-site is conserved in a majority of known and potential DGC proteins, we propose that product inhibition of DGCs is of fundamental importance for c-di-GMP signaling and cellular homeostasis. The definition of the I-site binding pocket provides an entry point into unraveling the molecular mechanisms of ligand-protein interactions involved in c-di-GMP signaling and makes DGCs a valuable target for drug design to develop new strategies against biofilm-related diseases.

Received for publication, April 13, 2006 , and in revised form, June 21, 2006.

^* This work was supported by Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship 3100A0-108186 (to U. J.) and by a Swiss National Science Foundation Förderprofessur (to M. M.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains supplemental text and Figs. S1-S4.

¹ These authors contributed equally to this work.

² To whom correspondence should be addressed: Tel.: 41-61-267-2135; Fax: 41-61-267-2118; E-mail: urs.jenal{at}unibas.ch.

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