期刊
PROTEIN SCIENCE
卷 16, 期 8, 页码 1708-1719出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1110/ps.072897707
关键词
FixL; GAF domain; heme-based sensor; histidine-protein kinase; host-microbe interactions; oxygen sensor; sensor kinase; response regulator; signal transduction
Exposure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to hypoxia is known to alter the expression of many genes, including ones thought to be involved in latency, via the transcription factor DevR (also called DosR). Two sensory kinases, DosT and DevS (also called DosS), control the activity of DevR. We show that, like DevS, DosT contains a heme cofactor within an N-terminal GAF domain. For full-length DosT and DevS, we determined the ligand- binding parameters and the rates of ATP reaction with the liganded and unliganded states. In both proteins, the heme state was coupled to the kinase such that the unliganded, CO-bound, and NO-bound forms were active, but the O-2-bound form was inactive. Oxygen-bound DosT was unusually inert to oxidation to the ferric state ( half life in air > 60 h). Though the kinase activity of DosT was unaffected by NO, this ligand bound 5000 times more avidly than O-2 to DosT (K-d [NO] similar to 5 nM versus K-d [O-2] = 26 mu M). These results demonstrate direct and specific O-2 sensing by proteins in M. tuberculosis and identify for the first time a signal ligand for a sensory kinase from this organism. They also explain why exposure of M. tuberculosis to NO donors under aerobic conditions can give results identical to hypoxia, i.e., NO saturates DosT, preventing O-2 binding and yielding an active kinase.
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