Affiliation:
1. Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe phosphorylated form of NRI is the transcriptional activator of nitrogen-regulated genes inEscherichia coli. NRI∼P displays a slow autophosphatase activity and is rapidly dephosphorylated by the complex of the NRII and PII signal transduction proteins. Here we describe the isolation of two mutations, causing the alterations ΔD10 and K104Q in the receiver domain of NRI, that were selected as conferring resistance to dephosphorylation by the NRII-PII complex. The mutations, which alter highly conserved residues near the D54 site of phosphorylation in the NRI receiver domain, resulted in elevated expression of nitrogen-regulated genes under nitrogen-rich conditions. The altered NRI receiver domains were phosphorylated by NRII in vitro but were defective in dephosphorylation. The ΔD10 receiver domain retained normal autophosphatase activity but was resistant to dephosphorylation by the NRII-PII complex. The K104Q receiver domain lacked both the autophosphatase activity and the ability to be dephosphorylated by the NRII-PII complex. The properties of these altered proteins are consistent with the hypothesis that the NRII-PII complex is not a true phosphatase but rather collaborates with NRI≈P to bring about its dephosphorylation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
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