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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.02084
Keywords
post-translational modification; toxin-antitoxin; AMPylation; filamentation induced by cAMP; DNA gyrase; topoisomerase IV; cell filamentation; DNA replication
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31872020, 31572045]
- National Key Research and Development Program [2017YFD0201106]
- 111 Project [B13006]
- Yunnan Provincial Tobacco Monopoly Bureau [2018530000241006, 2019530000241007, 2020530000241013]
- National Institutes of Health [R01AI127465]
- China Scholarship Council
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The Fic (filamentation induced by cyclic AMP) domain is a widely distributed motif with a conserved sequence of HPFx[D/E]GN[G/K]R, some of which regulate cellular activity by catalyzing the transfer of the AMP moiety from ATP to protein substrates. Some Fic proteins, including Fic-1 from the soil bacteriumPseudomonas fluorescensstrain 2P24, have been shown to inhibit bacterial DNA replication by AMPylating the subunit B of DNA gyrase (GyrB), but the biochemical activity and cellular target of most Fic proteins remain unknown. Here, we report that Fic-2, which is another Fic protein from strain 2P24 and Fic-1 AMPylate the topoisomerase IV ParE at Tyr(109). We also examined Fic proteins from several phylogenetically diverse bacteria and found that those fromYersinia pseudotuberculosisandStaphylococcus aureusAMPylate ParE and GrlB, the counterpart of ParE in Gram-positive bacteria, respectively. Modification by Fic-1 ofP. fluorescensand FicY ofY. pseudotuberculosisinhibits the relaxation activity of topoisomerase IV. Consistent with the inhibition of ParE activity, ectopic expression of these Fic proteins causes cell filamentation akin to the canonicalparphenotype in which nucleoids are assembled in the center of elongated cells, a process accompanied by the induction of the SOS response. Our results establish that Fic proteins from diverse bacterial species regulate chromosome division and cell separation in bacteria by targeting ParE.
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