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How these substitutions reshape the protein's conformational landscape to drive functional diversification remains poorly understood. Members of the cAMP receptor protein family (CRP), a ubiquitous bacterial transcription factor, share a common architecture yet differentially couple cAMP binding to DNA interactions. Here, our results support a model in which allosteric diversification in CRP arises from the tuning of sequence\u2010encoded protein's conformational dynamics. Comparative analysis of sequence conservation and helical propensity across proteobacterial and actinobacterial CRPs reveals lineage\u2010specific distributions of conformational heterogeneity within the dimerization C\u2010helix. These evolutionary patterns map onto the proteobacterial\n                    <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) CRP and the actinobacterial\n                    <jats:italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>MTB<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) CRP, two protein homologs that respond to cAMP through distinct allosteric mechanisms. Guided by functional and evolutionary differences, we introduced CRP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    \u2010inspired C\u2010helix substitutions into CRP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>MTB<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    to identify sequence, structural and conformational features that contribute to the divergent allosteric behavior in CRP\n                    <jats:sub>\n                      <jats:italic>MTB<\/jats:italic>\n                    <\/jats:sub>\n                    . The resulting C\u2010helix variants preserved the global fold, but displayed altered thermodynamic stability, cAMP binding affinity and cooperativity, DNA recognition properties, and promoter\u2010associated oligomerization. Among these, the C\u2010helix hinge residue, N135, emerges as an allosteric node that redistributes cAMP\u2010induced conformational responses, modulating DNA binding. 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