International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications, 9(72), p. 726-731, 2016
DOI: 10.1107/s2053230x1601298x
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ToxT is an AraC-family transcriptional activator protein that controls the expression of key virulence factors inVibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. ToxT directly activates the expression of the genes that encode the toxin-coregulated pilus and cholera toxin, and also positively auto-regulates its own expression from thetcppromoter. The crystal structure of ToxT has previously been solved at 1.9 Å resolution (PDB entry 3gbg). In this study, a crystal structure of ToxT at 1.65 Å resolution with a similar overall structure to the previously determined structure is reported. However, there are distinct differences between the two structures, particularly in the region that extends from Asp101 to Glu110. This region, which can influence ToxT activity but was disordered in the previous structure, can be traced entirely in the current structure.