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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 188, 期 9, 页码 3299-3307出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.9.3299-3307.2006
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA042014, CA42014] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM019559, R37 GM019559, GM19559] Funding Source: Medline
During chemotactic signaling by Escherichia coli, autophosphorylation of the histidine kinase CheA is coupled to chemoreceptor control by the CheW protein, which interacts with the C-terminal P5 domain of CheA. To identify P5 determinants important for CheW binding and receptor coupling control, we isolated and characterized a series of P5 missense mutants. The mutants fell into four phenotypic groups on the basis of in vivo behavioral and protein stability tests and in vitro assays with purified mutant proteins. Group 1 mutants exhibited autophosphorylation and receptor-coupling defects, and their CheA proteins were subject to relatively rapid degradation in vivo. Group1 mutations were located at hydrophobic residues in P5 subdomain 2 and most likely caused folding defects. Group 2 mutants made stable CheA proteins with normal autophosphorylation ability but with defects in CheW binding and in receptor-mediated activation of CheA autophosphorylation. Their mutations affected residues in P5 subdomain 1 near the interface with the CheA dimerization (P3) and ATP-binding (P4) domains. Mutant proteins of group 3 were normal in all tests yet could not support chemotaxis, suggesting that P5 has one or more important but still unknown signaling functions. Group 4 mutant proteins were specifically defective in receptor-mediated deactivation control. The group 4 mutations were located in P5 subdomain 1 at the P3/P3' interface. We conclude that P5 subdomain I is important for CheW binding and for receptor coupling control and that these processes may require substantial motions of the P5 domain relative to the neighboring P3 and P4 domains of CheA.
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