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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-8
pubmed:abstractText
BarA is a membrane-associated protein that belongs to a subclass of tripartite sensors of the two-component signal transduction system family. In this study, we report that UvrY is the cognate response regulator for BarA of Escherichia coli. This conclusion is based upon homologies with analogous two-component systems and demonstrated by both biochemical and genetic means. We show that the purified BarA protein is able to autophosphorylate when incubated with [gamma-(32)P]ATP but not with [alpha-(32)P]ATP or [gamma-(32)P]GTP. Phosphorylated BarA, in turn, acts as an efficient phosphoryl group donor to UvrY but not to the non-cognate response regulators ArcA, PhoB, or CpxR. The specificity of the transphosphorylation reaction is further supported by the fact that UvrY can receive the phosphoryl group from BarA-P but not from the non-cognate tripartite sensor ArcB-P or ATP. In addition, genetic evidence that BarA and UvrY mediate the same signal transduction pathway is provided by the finding that both uvrY and barA mutant strains exhibit the same hydrogen peroxide hypersensitive phenotype. These results provide the first biochemical evidence as well as genetic support for a link between BarA and UvrY, suggesting that the two proteins constitute a new two-component system for gene regulation in Escherichia coli.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adenosine Triphosphate, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Escherichia coli Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hydrogen Peroxide, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phosphotransferases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/barA protein, E coli
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
276
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
225-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Adenosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Escherichia coli Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Genes, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Hydrogen Peroxide, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Phosphotransferases, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11022030-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of UvrY as the cognate response regulator for the BarA sensor kinase in Escherichia coli.
pubmed:affiliation
Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't