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Colton DM, Stoudenmire JL, Stabb EV. Growth on glucose decreases cAMP-CRP activity while paradoxically increasing intracellular cAMP in the light-organ symbiont Vibrio fischeri. Mol Microbiol 2015; 97:1114-27. [PMID: 26062003 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Proteobacteria often co-ordinate responses to carbon sources using CRP and the second messenger cyclic 3', 5'-AMP (cAMP), which combine to control transcription of genes during growth on non-glucose substrates as part of the catabolite-repression response. Here we show that cAMP-CRP is active and important in Vibrio fischeri during colonization of its host squid Euprymna scolopes. Moreover, consistent with a classical role in catabolite repression, a cAMP-CRP-dependent reporter showed lower activity in cells grown in media amended with glucose rather than glycerol. Surprisingly though, intracellular cAMP levels were higher in glucose-grown cells. Mutant analyses were consistent with predictions that CyaA was responsible for cAMP generation, that the EIIA(Glc) component of glucose transport could enhance cAMP production and that the phophodiesterases CpdA and CpdP consumed intracellular and extracellular cAMP respectively. However, the observation of lower cAMP levels in glycerol-grown cells seemed best explained by changes in cAMP export, via an unknown mechanism. Our data also indicated that cAMP-CRP activity decreased during growth on glucose independently of crp's native transcriptional regulation or cAMP levels. We speculate that some unknown mechanism, perhaps carbon-source-dependent post-translational modulation of CRP, may help control cAMP-CRP activity in V.fischeri.
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- Deanna M Colton
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Acetylation Regulates Survival of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium under Acid Stress. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:5675-82. [PMID: 26070677 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01009-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The ability to acetylate lysine residues is conserved across organisms, and acetylation of lysine residues plays important roles in various cellular functions. Maintaining intracellular pH homeostasis is crucial for the survival of enteric bacteria in the acidic gastric tract. It has been shown that eukaryotes can stabilize the intracellular pH by histone deacetylation. However, it remains unknown whether bacteria can utilize a reversible protein acetylation system to adapt to an acidic environment. Here we demonstrate that protein acetylation/deacetylation is critical for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to survive in an acidic environment. We used RNA sequencing to analyze the transcriptome patterns under acid stress and found that the transcriptional levels of genes involved in NAD(+)/NADH metabolism were significantly changed, leading to an increase in the intracellular NAD(+)/NADH ratio. Moreover, acid stress downregulated the transcriptional level of pat, encoding acetyltransferase, and genes cyaA and crp, encoding adenylate cyclase and cyclic AMP receptor protein, respectively, which are positive regulators of pat. It was found that the acid signal alerts the tricarboxylic acid cycle to promote the consumption of acetyl coenzyme A (Ac-CoA), an acetyl group donor for the acetylation reaction. A lowered acetylation level not only was the bacterial response to acid stress but also increased the survival rate of S. Typhimurium under acid stress. The pat deletion mutant had a more stable intracellular pH, which paralleled the higher survival rate after acid treatment compared with that of both the wild-type strain and the cobB (encoding deacetylase) deletion mutant. Our data indicate that bacteria can downregulate the protein acetylation level to prevent the intracellular pH from further falling under acid stress, and this work may provide a new perspective to understand the bacterial acid resistance mechanism.
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Kim MJ, Kim J, Lee HY, Noh HJ, Lee KH, Park SJ. Role of AcsR in expression of the acetyl-CoA synthetase gene in Vibrio vulnificus. BMC Microbiol 2015; 15:86. [PMID: 25887971 PMCID: PMC4409781 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0418-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND VarS/VarA is one of the global factors regulating diverse aspects of the metabolism and virulence of bacteria including pathogenic Vibrio spp. An experiment to identify the VarS/VarA-regulon in V. vulnificus revealed that a putative LuxR-type transcriptional regulator was down-regulated in ΔvarA mutant. To investigate the roles of this regulatory cascade, the target gene regulated by a LuxR-regulator was identified and its expression was characterized. RESULTS Transcriptomic analysis of the mutant deficient in this LuxR-type regulator showed that the acsA gene encoding acetyl-CoA synthetase was down-regulated. Thus, this regulator was named AcsR for "regulator of acetyl-CoA synthetase". A putative histidine kinase gene, acsS, was located five ORFs downstream of the acsR gene. Expression of an acsA::luxAB transcriptional fusion was decreased in both ΔacsR and ΔacsS mutants. Similar to a ΔacsA mutant, strains carrying deletions either in acsR or acsS grew slowly than wild type in a minimal medium with acetate as a sole carbon source. Growth defect of the ΔacsR strain in acetate-minimal medium was restored by complementation. To investigate if AcsR directly regulates acsA expression, in vitro-gel shift assays were performed using the recombinant AcsR and the regulatory region of the acsA gene, showing that AcsR specifically bound the upstream region of the acsA ORF. CONCLUSION This study indicates that the VarS/VarA system plays a role in V. vulnificus metabolism via regulating AcsR, which in turn controls acetate metabolism by activating the transcription of the acetyl-CoA synthetase gene.
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- Min Jung Kim
- Department of Environmental Medical Biology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea.
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- Department of Environmental Medical Biology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea.
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- Department of Environmental Medical Biology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea.
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- Department of Environmental Medical Biology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea.
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- Department of Life Science, Sogang University, Seoul, 121-742, South Korea.
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- Department of Environmental Medical Biology and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea.
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Pisithkul T, Patel NM, Amador-Noguez D. Post-translational modifications as key regulators of bacterial metabolic fluxes. Curr Opin Microbiol 2015; 24:29-37. [PMID: 25597444 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2014] [Revised: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In order to survive and compete in natural settings, bacteria must excel at quickly adapting their metabolism to fluctuations in nutrient availability and other environmental variables. This necessitates fast-acting post-translational regulatory mechanisms, that is, allostery or covalent modification, to control metabolic flux. While allosteric regulation has long been a well-established strategy for regulating metabolic enzyme activity in bacteria, covalent post-translational modes of regulation, such as phosphorylation or acetylation, have previously been regarded as regulatory mechanisms employed primarily by eukaryotic organisms. Recent findings, however, have shifted this perception and point to a widespread role for covalent posttranslational modification in the regulation of metabolic enzymes and fluxes in bacteria. This review provides an outline of the exciting recent advances in this area.
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- Tippapha Pisithkul
- Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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- Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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Castaño-Cerezo S, Bernal V, Röhrig T, Termeer S, Cánovas M. Regulation of acetate metabolism in Escherichia coli BL21 by protein Nε-lysine acetylation. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 99:3533-45. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-6280-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2014] [Revised: 11/16/2014] [Accepted: 11/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bernal V, Castaño-Cerezo S, Gallego-Jara J, Écija-Conesa A, de Diego T, Iborra JL, Cánovas M. Regulation of bacterial physiology by lysine acetylation of proteins. N Biotechnol 2014; 31:586-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nbt.2014.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2013] [Revised: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Castaño-Cerezo S, Bernal V, Post H, Fuhrer T, Cappadona S, Sánchez-Díaz NC, Sauer U, Heck AJR, Altelaar AFM, Cánovas M. Protein acetylation affects acetate metabolism, motility and acid stress response in Escherichia coli. Mol Syst Biol 2014; 10:762. [PMID: 25518064 PMCID: PMC4299603 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Although protein acetylation is widely observed, it has been associated with few specific
regulatory functions making it poorly understood. To interrogate its functionality, we analyzed the
acetylome in Escherichia coli knockout mutants of cobB, the only
known sirtuin-like deacetylase, and patZ, the best-known protein acetyltransferase.
For four growth conditions, more than 2,000 unique acetylated peptides, belonging to 809 proteins,
were identified and differentially quantified. Nearly 65% of these proteins are related to
metabolism. The global activity of CobB contributes to the deacetylation of a large number of
substrates and has a major impact on physiology. Apart from the regulation of acetyl-CoA synthetase,
we found that CobB-controlled acetylation of isocitrate lyase contributes to the fine-tuning of the
glyoxylate shunt. Acetylation of the transcription factor RcsB prevents DNA binding, activating
flagella biosynthesis and motility, and increases acid stress susceptibility. Surprisingly, deletion
of patZ increased acetylation in acetate cultures, which suggests that it regulates
the levels of acetylating agents. The results presented offer new insights into functional roles of
protein acetylation in metabolic fitness and global cell regulation.
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- Sara Castaño-Cerezo
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia Campus de Excelencia Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia Campus de Excelencia Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia Campus de Excelencia Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Netherlands Proteomics Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular B e Inmunología, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Murcia Campus de Excelencia Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain
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Arifin Y, Archer C, Lim S, Quek LE, Sugiarto H, Marcellin E, Vickers CE, Krömer JO, Nielsen LK. Escherichia coli W shows fast, highly oxidative sucrose metabolism and low acetate formation. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 98:9033-44. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5956-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2014] [Revised: 07/07/2014] [Accepted: 07/08/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Xu JY, You D, Leng PQ, Ye BC. Allosteric regulation of a protein acetyltransferase in Micromonospora aurantiaca by the amino acids cysteine and arginine. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:27034-27045. [PMID: 25124041 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.579078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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ACT domains (amino acid-binding domains) are linked to a wide range of metabolic enzymes that are regulated by amino acid concentration. Seventy proteins with ACT-GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) domain organization were found in actinomycetales. In this study, we investigate the ACT-containing GNAT acetyltransferase, Micau_1670 (MaKat), from Micromonospora aurantiaca ATCC 27029. Arginine and cysteine were identified as ligands by monitoring the conformational changes that occur upon amino acids binding to the ACT domain in the MaKat protein using FRET assay. It was found that MaKat is an amino acid-regulated protein acetyltransferase, whereas arginine and cysteine stimulated the activity of MaKat with regard to acetylation of acetyl-CoA synthetase (Micau_0428). Our research reveals the biochemical characterization of a protein acetyltransferase that contains a fusion of a GNAT domain with an ACT domain and provides a novel signaling pathway for regulating cellular protein acetylation. These findings indicate that acetylation of proteins and acetyltransferase activity may be tightly linked to cellular concentrations of some amino acids in actinomycetales.
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- Jun-Yu Xu
- Lab of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Lab of Biosystems and Microanalysis, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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Acetyl coenzyme A synthetase is acetylated on multiple lysine residues by a protein acetyltransferase with a single Gcn5-type N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) domain in Saccharopolyspora erythraea. J Bacteriol 2014; 196:3169-78. [PMID: 24957627 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01961-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reversible lysine acetylation (RLA) is used by cells of all domains of life to modulate protein function. To date, bacterial acetylation/deacetylation systems have been studied in a few bacteria (e.g., Salmonella enterica, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Erwinia amylovora, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Geobacillus kaustophilus), but little is known about RLA in antibiotic-producing actinomycetes. Here, we identify the Gcn5-like protein acetyltransferase AcuA of Saccharopolyspora erythraea (SacAcuA, SACE_5148) as the enzyme responsible for the acetylation of the AMP-forming acetyl coenzyme A synthetase (SacAcsA, SACE_2375). Acetylated SacAcsA was deacetylated by a sirtuin-type NAD(+)-dependent consuming deacetylase (SacSrtN, SACE_3798). In vitro acetylation/deacetylation of SacAcsA enzyme was studied by Western blotting, and acetylation of lysine residues Lys(237), Lys(380), Lys(611), and Lys(628) was confirmed by mass spectrometry. In a strain devoid of SacAcuA, none of the above-mentioned Lys residues of SacAcsA was acetylated. To our knowledge, the ability of SacAcuA to acetylate multiple Lys residues is unique among AcuA-type acetyltransferases. Results from site-specific mutagenesis experiments showed that the activity of SacAcsA was controlled by lysine acetylation. Lastly, immunoprecipitation data showed that in vivo acetylation of SacAcsA was influenced by glucose and acetate availability. These results suggested that reversible acetylation may also be a conserved regulatory posttranslational modification strategy in antibiotic-producing actinomycetes.
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Peebo K, Valgepea K, Nahku R, Riis G, Õun M, Adamberg K, Vilu R. Coordinated activation of PTA-ACS and TCA cycles strongly reduces overflow metabolism of acetate in Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 98:5131-43. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-014-5613-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The acetylation motif in AMP-forming Acyl coenzyme A synthetases contains residues critical for acetylation and recognition by the protein acetyltransferase pat of Rhodopseudomonas palustris. J Bacteriol 2014; 196:1496-504. [PMID: 24488314 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00004-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The AMP-forming acyl coenzyme A (acyl-CoA) synthetases are a large class of enzymes found in both anabolic and catabolic pathways that activate fatty acids to acyl-CoA molecules. The protein acetyltransferase (Pat) from Rhodopseudomonas palustris (RpPat) inactivates AMP-forming acyl-CoA synthetases by acetylating the ε-amino group of a conserved, catalytic lysine residue. In all of the previously described RpPat substrates, this lysine residue is located within a PX4GK motif that has been proposed to be a recognition motif for RpPat. Here, we report five new substrates for RpPat, all of which are also AMP-forming acyl-CoA synthetases. This finding supports the idea that Pat enzymes may have evolved to control the activity of this family of enzymes. Notably, RpPat did not acetylate the wild-type long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase B (RpLcsB; formerly Rpa2714) enzyme of this bacterium. However, a single amino acid change two residues upstream of the acetylation site was sufficient to convert RpLcsB into an RpPat substrate. The results of mutational and functional analyses of RpLcsB and RpPimA variants led us to propose PK/RTXS/T/V/NGKX2K/R as a substrate recognition motif. The underlined positions within this motif are particularly important for acetylation by RpPat. The first residue, threonine, is located 4 amino acids upstream of the acetylation site. The second residue can be S/T/V/N and is located two positions upstream of the acetylation site. Analysis of published crystal structures suggests that the side chains of these two residues are very close to the acetylated lysine residue, indicating that they may directly interact with RpPat.
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Acetylation of the response regulator RcsB controls transcription from a small RNA promoter. J Bacteriol 2013; 195:4174-86. [PMID: 23852870 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00383-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Nε-lysine acetylation was recently discovered on many bacterial proteins that function in diverse cellular processes. Thus, many questions remain unanswered. For example, what mechanisms regulate lysine acetylation? Does acetylation affect physiology? To help answer these questions, we studied the Escherichia coli response regulator and transcription factor RcsB, which is reported to be acetylated in vitro. To characterize RcsB acetylation, we monitored transcription from the rprA promoter, which requires RcsB. The conventional view is that RcsB is activated by phosphorylation through either the Rcs phosphorelay or acetyl phosphate. We affirmed that rprA transcription requires phosphorylated RcsB and showed that acetyl-phosphate (AcP) is a phosphoryl group donor to RcsB. However, a mutant that accumulates AcP (ackA) exhibited a reduction in rprA transcription instead of the predicted increase. rprA transcription also diminished in the cobB mutant, which lacks the only known E. coli protein deacetylase. This suggests the existence of an inhibitory mechanism that involves lysine acetylation, a supposition supported by the observation that RcsB isolated from the ackA or cobB mutant was hyperacetylated. Finally, we used a genetic approach to identify an AckA- and CobB-sensitive lysine (Lys-154) that controls RcsB activity. We propose that acetylation inhibits RcsB activity and that some of this inhibition acts through the acetylation of Lys-154.
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Hayden JD, Brown LR, Gunawardena HP, Perkowski EF, Chen X, Braunstein M. Reversible acetylation regulates acetate and propionate metabolism in Mycobacterium smegmatis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2013; 159:1986-1999. [PMID: 23813678 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.068585-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Carbon metabolic pathways are important to the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis. However, extremely little is known about metabolic regulation in mycobacteria. There is growing evidence for lysine acetylation being a mechanism of regulating bacterial metabolism. Lysine acetylation is a post-translational modification in which an acetyl group is covalently attached to the side chain of a lysine residue. This modification is mediated by acetyltransferases, which add acetyl groups, and deacetylases, which remove the acetyl groups. Here we set out to test whether lysine acetylation and deacetylation impact acetate metabolism in the model mycobacteria Mycobacterium smegmatis, which possesses 25 candidate acetyltransferases and 3 putative lysine deacetylases. Using mutants lacking predicted acetyltransferases and deacetylases we showed that acetate metabolism in M. smegmatis is regulated by reversible acetylation of acetyl-CoA synthetase (Ms-Acs) through the action of a single pair of enzymes: the acetyltransferase Ms-PatA and the sirtuin deacetylase Ms-SrtN. We also confirmed that the role of Ms-PatA in regulating Ms-Acs regulation depends on cAMP binding. We additionally demonstrated a role for Ms-Acs, Ms-PatA and Ms-SrtN in regulating the metabolism of propionate in M. smegmatis. Finally, along with Ms-Acs, we identified a candidate propionyl-CoA synthetase, Ms5404, as acetylated in whole-cell lysates. This work lays the foundation for studying the regulatory circuit of acetylation and deacetylation in the cellular context of mycobacteria.
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- Jennifer D Hayden
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Lee HJ, Lang PT, Fortune SM, Sassetti CM, Alber T. Cyclic AMP regulation of protein lysine acetylation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2012; 19:811-8. [PMID: 22773105 PMCID: PMC3414669 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2012] [Accepted: 06/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Protein lysine acetylation networks can regulate central processes such as carbon metabolism and gene expression in bacteria. In Escherichia coli, cyclic-AMP (cAMP) regulates protein lysine acetyltransferase (PAT) activity at the transcriptional level, but in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, fusion of a cyclic-nucleotide binding domain to a Gcn5-like PAT domain enables direct cAMP control of protein acetylation. Here we describe the allosteric activation mechanism of M. tuberculosis PAT. The crystal structures of the auto-inhibited and cAMP-activated PAT reveal that cAMP binds to a cryptic site in the regulatory domain over 32 Å from the catalytic site. An extensive conformational rearrangement relieves auto-inhibition by a substrate-mimicking lid that covers the protein-substrate binding surface. A steric double latch couples the domains by harnessing a classic, cAMP-mediated, conformational switch. The structures suggest general features that enable the evolution of long-range communication between linked domains.
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- Ho Jun Lee
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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Lin H, Su X, He B. Protein lysine acylation and cysteine succination by intermediates of energy metabolism. ACS Chem Biol 2012; 7:947-60. [PMID: 22571489 DOI: 10.1021/cb3001793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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In the past few years, several new protein post-translational modifications that use intermediates in metabolism have been discovered. These include various acyl lysine modifications (formylation, propionylation, butyrylation, crotonylation, malonylation, succinylation, myristoylation) and cysteine succination. Here, we review the discovery and the current understanding of these modifications. Several of these modifications are regulated by the deacylases, sirtuins, which use nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), an important metabolic small molecule. Interestingly, several of these modifications in turn regulate the activity of metabolic enzymes. These new modifications reveal interesting connections between metabolism and protein post-translational modifications and raise many questions for future investigations.
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- Hening Lin
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United
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