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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-2-16
pubmed:abstractText
The Cpx signalling system of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica senses extracytoplasmic stress and controls expression of factors that allow the bacterium to adapt to these stressors and thereby enhance survival. Many of the Cpx-responsive genes products are of unknown function. We determined the crystal structure of one of these gene products, called YihE in E. coli, which exhibits a eukaryotic kinase fold. Functional assays established that both YihE and the S. enterica YihE homologue, RdoA, undergo autophosphorylation and phosphorylate protein substrates at Ser/Thr residues in vitro, demonstrating that YihE/RdoA is a novel Ser/Thr protein kinase in prokaryotic cells. Phenotypic analysis of yihE/rdoA null strains indicates that this kinase is most abundant in stationary phase, and is important for long-term cell survival and for expression of surface appendages in both a Cpx-independent and -dependent manner. YihE/RdoA is therefore a previously unknown kinase component of a new type of bacterial phosphorelay mechanism, adding kinase activity as another response to the Cpx sensing system that functions to maintain cellular homeostasis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0950-382X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
63
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1360-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Adaptation, Physiological, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Adenosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Escherichia coli Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Microbial Viability, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Salmonella enterica, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:17302814-Signal Transduction
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Crystal structure of a novel prokaryotic Ser/Thr kinase and its implication in the Cpx stress response pathway.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't