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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
46
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-11-18
pubmed:abstractText
Transmembrane receptors in the signaling pathways of bacterial chemotaxis systems influence cell motility by forming noncovalent complexes with the cytoplasmic signaling proteins to regulate their activity. The requirements for receptor-mediated activation of CheA, the principal kinase of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signaling pathway, were investigated using self-assembled clusters of a receptor fragment (CF) derived from the cytoplasmic domain of the aspartate receptor, Tar. Histidine-tagged Tar CF was assembled on the surface of sonicated unilamellar vesicles via a lipid containing the nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid moiety as a headgroup. In the presence of the adaptor protein CheW, CheA bound to and was activated approximately 180-fold by vesicle-bound CF. The extent of CheA activation was found to be independent of the level of covalent modification on the CF. Instead, the stability of the complex increased significantly as the level of covalent modification increased. Surface-assembled CF was also found to serve as a substrate for receptor methylation in a reaction catalyzed by the receptor methyltransferase, CheR. Since neither CheA activation nor CF methylation was observed in comparable samples in the absence of vesicles, it is concluded that surface templating generates the organization among CF subunits required for biochemical activity.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adenosine Triphosphatases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CheW protein, Bacteria, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CheW protein, E coli, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Escherichia coli Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Lipids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Methyltransferases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Fragments, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Cell Surface, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tar protein, E coli, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/chemotaxis methyltransferase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13379-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Template-directed assembly of receptor signaling complexes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, LGRT 701, 710 North Pleasant Street, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9336, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.