Abstract
Wild type cAMP receptor protein (CRP) activates in vitro lac transcription only in the presence of cAMP. In contrast the mutant CRP*598 (Arg-142 to His, Ala-144 to Thr) can activate lac transcription in the absence of cyclic nucleotide or at concentrations of cAMP below that required by CRP. To further characterize the properties of CRP*598, the binding of cAMP and cGMP to CRP and CRP*598 has been determined. The intrinsic binding constant (K) values obtained for cAMP binding are: CRP, 1.9 x 10(4) M-1; CRP*598, 3.8 x 10(5) M-1. The K values obtained for cGMP binding are: CRP, 2.9 x 10(4) M-1; CRP*598, 2.7 x 10(4) M-1. The results indicate that the affinity of CRP and CRP*598 for cGMP is relatively unchanged while the affinity of CRP*598 for cAMP is approximately twenty times greater than that shown by CRP. Binding of cAMP by CRP and cGMP by CRP or CRP*598 exhibits slight negative cooperativity. The major difference seen is that CRP*598 binds cAMP with strong positive cooperativity. The importance of the unsubstituted N6 position of the adenine moiety is also shown by the similar affinity of both forms of CRP for N6-butyryl cAMP. The cAMP binding properties evinced by CRP*598 suggest that its intrinsically altered conformation may be related to that assumed by CRP in a CRP-DNA or a cAMP-CRP-DNA complex.
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