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Liu F, Wang F, Liu J. Characterization of chemotaxis and motility response towards fructose in Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 527:194-199. [PMID: 32446366 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.04.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Peritrichously flagellated bacteria such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) perform chemotaxis by a biased random walk toward various chemicals, which was driven by the bacterial flagellar motor. Fructose, a typical monosaccharide that can attract E. coli. However, little is known about the chemotaxis and motility response of E. coli towards fructose. Here, we characterized the chemotaxis behavior of E. coli to different concentrations of fructose from 0 mM to 50 mM by using microfluidics and bead assay. We observed the wild-type cells responded to the stimulus of fructose, which suggested fructose is an attractant to E. coli, while the cells defective in chemotaxis could not sense the stimulus of fructose. The motility of wild-type cells was reduced in various concentrations of fructose, which helped the aggregation of cells near surfaces, in contrast with the result that the fructose showed no effect on the motility of the cells defective in chemotaxis. Similar phenomena are expected to be found in the effect of other monosaccharides to E. coli.
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- Fanghai Liu
- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui Province, 230009, PR China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui Province, 230009, PR China.
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui Province, 230009, PR China.
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Shakeri-Garakani A, Brinkkötter A, Schmid K, Turgut S, Lengeler JW. The genes and enzymes for the catabolism of galactitol, D-tagatose, and related carbohydrates in Klebsiella oxytoca M5a1 and other enteric bacteria display convergent evolution. Mol Genet Genomics 2004; 271:717-28. [PMID: 15257457 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-004-1022-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2004] [Accepted: 04/30/2004] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Enteric bacteria (Enteriobacteriaceae) carry on their single chromosome about 4000 genes that all strains have in common (referred to here as "obligatory genes"), and up to 1300 "facultative" genes that vary from strain to strain and from species to species. In closely related species, obligatory and facultative genes are orthologous genes that are found at similar loci. We have analyzed a set of facultative genes involved in the degradation of the carbohydrates galactitol, D-tagatose, D-galactosamine and N-acetyl-galactosamine in various pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of these bacteria. The four carbohydrates are transported into the cell by phosphotransferase (PTS) uptake systems, and are metabolized by closely related or even identical catabolic enzymes via pathways that share several intermediates. In about 60% of Escherichia coli strains the genes for galactitol degradation map to a gat operon at 46.8 min. In strains of Salmonella enterica, Klebsiella pneumoniae and K. oxytoca, the corresponding gat genes, although orthologous to their E. coli counterparts, are found at 70.7 min, clustered in a regulon together with three tag genes for the degradation of D-tagatose, an isomer of D-fructose. In contrast, in all the E. coli strains tested, this chromosomal site was found to be occupied by an aga/kba gene cluster for the degradation of D-galactosamine and N-acetyl-galactosamine. The aga/kba and the tag genes were paralogous either to the gat cluster or to the fru genes for degradation of D-fructose. Finally, in more then 90% of strains of both Klebsiella species, and in about 5% of the E. coli strains, two operons were found at 46.8 min that comprise paralogous genes for catabolism of the isomers D-arabinitol (genes atl or dal) and ribitol (genes rtl or rbt). In these strains gat genes were invariably absent from this location, and they were totally absent in S. enterica. These results strongly indicate that these various gene clusters and metabolic pathways have been subject to convergent evolution among the Enterobacteriaceae. This apparently involved recent horizontal gene transfer and recombination events, as indicated by major chromosomal rearrangements found in their immediate vicinity.
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- A Shakeri-Garakani
- Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Barbarastr.11, 49069, Osnabrück, Germany
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Plumbridge J. Expression of the phosphotransferase system both mediates and is mediated by Mlc regulation in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 1999; 33:260-73. [PMID: 10411743 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01462.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The ptsHIcrr operon encodes the cytoplasmic components of the phosphotransferase system (PTS). It is expressed from two major promoters, of which the upstream promoter has previously been shown to be induced by glucose and to be dependent upon cAMP/CAP. This promoter is now shown to be repressed by Mlc. Mlc is a transcriptional regulator controlling, among others, the gene ptsG, encoding EIICBGlc, the glucose-specific transporter of the PTS. Transcription of ptsH p0 and ptsG are subject to the same regulatory pattern. In addition to induction by glucose and repression by Mlc, mutations in ptsHIcrr, which interrupt the PEP-dependent phosphate transfer through the soluble components of the PTS, lead to high expression of both ptsH and ptsG, while mutations inactivating EIIBCGlc are non-inducible. Mutations in mlc lead to high constitutive expression and are dominant, implying that Mlc is the ultimate regulator of ptsHI and ptsG expression. Growth on other PTS sugars, besides glucose, also induces ptsH and ptsG expression, suggesting that the target of Mlc regulation is the PTS. However, induction by these other sugars is only observed in the presence of ptsG+, thus confirming the importance of glucose and EIICBGlc in the regulation of the PTS. The ptsG22 mutation, although negative for glucose transport, shows a weak positive regulatory phenotype. The mutation has been sequenced and its effect on regulation investigated.
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- J Plumbridge
- Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique (UPR9073), 13, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
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Lux R, Munasinghe VR, Castellano F, Lengeler JW, Corrie JE, Khan S. Elucidation of a PTS-carbohydrate chemotactic signal pathway in Escherichia coli using a time-resolved behavioral assay. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:1133-46. [PMID: 10198062 PMCID: PMC25240 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.4.1133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli toward phosphotransferase systems (PTSs)-carbohydrates requires phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent PTSs as well as the chemotaxis response regulator CheY and its kinase, CheA. Responses initiated by flash photorelease of a PTS substrates D-glucose and its nonmetabolizable analog methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside were measured with 33-ms time resolution using computer-assisted motion analysis. This, together with chemotactic mutants, has allowed us to map out and characterize the PTS chemotactic signal pathway. The responses were absent in mutants lacking the general PTS enzymes EI or HPr, elevated in PTS transport mutants, retarded in mutants lacking CheZ, a catalyst of CheY autodephosphorylation, and severely reduced in mutants with impaired methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) signaling activity. Response kinetics were comparable to those triggered by MCP attractant ligands over most of the response range, the most rapid being 11.7 +/- 3.1 s-1. The response threshold was <10 nM for glucose. Responses to methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside had a higher threshold, commensurate with a lower PTS affinity, but were otherwise kinetically indistinguishable. These facts provide evidence for a single pathway in which the PTS chemotactic signal is relayed rapidly to MCP-CheW-CheA signaling complexes that effect subsequent amplification and slower CheY dephosphorylation. The high sensitivity indicates that this signal is generated by transport-induced dephosphorylation of the PTS rather than phosphoenolpyruvate consumption.
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- R Lux
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Madison LL, Huisman GW. Metabolic engineering of poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates): from DNA to plastic. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999; 63:21-53. [PMID: 10066830 PMCID: PMC98956 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.1.21-53.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 884] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) are a class of microbially produced polyesters that have potential applications as conventional plastics, specifically thermoplastic elastomers. A wealth of biological diversity in PHA formation exists, with at least 100 different PHA constituents and at least five different dedicated PHA biosynthetic pathways. This diversity, in combination with classical microbial physiology and modern molecular biology, has now opened up this area for genetic and metabolic engineering to develop optimal PHA-producing organisms. Commercial processes for PHA production were initially developed by W. R. Grace in the 1960s and later developed by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and 1980s. Since the early 1990s, Metabolix Inc. and Monsanto have been the driving forces behind the commercial exploitation of PHA polymers in the United States. The gram-negative bacterium Ralstonia eutropha, formerly known as Alcaligenes eutrophus, has generally been used as the production organism of choice, and intracellular accumulation of PHA of over 90% of the cell dry weight have been reported. The advent of molecular biological techniques and a developing environmental awareness initiated a renewed scientific interest in PHAs, and the biosynthetic machinery for PHA metabolism has been studied in great detail over the last two decades. Because the structure and monomeric composition of PHAs determine the applications for each type of polymer, a variety of polymers have been synthesized by cofeeding of various substrates or by metabolic engineering of the production organism. Classical microbiology and modern molecular bacterial physiology have been brought together to decipher the intricacies of PHA metabolism both for production purposes and for the unraveling of the natural role of PHAs. This review provides an overview of the different PHA biosynthetic systems and their genetic background, followed by a detailed summation of how this natural diversity is being used to develop commercially attractive, recombinant processes for the large-scale production of PHAs.
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- L L Madison
- Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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Jeziore-Sassoon Y, Hamblin PA, Bootle-Wilbraham CA, Poole PS, Armitage JP. Metabolism is required for chemotaxis to sugars in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 1):229-239. [PMID: 9467915 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-1-229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Chemotaxis towards carbohydrates is mediated, in enteric bacteria, either by the transport-independent, methylation-dependent chemotaxis pathway or by transport and phosphorylation via the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS). This study shows that Rhodobacter sphaeroides is chemotactic to a range of carbohydrates but the response involves neither the classical methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) pathway nor the PTS transport pathway. The chemoattractant fructose was transported by a fructose-specific PTS system, but transport through this system did not appear to cause a chemotactic signal. Chemotaxis to sugars was inducible and occurred with the induction of carbohydrate transport systems and with substrate incorporation. A mutation of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (zwf) inhibited chemotaxis towards substrates metabolized by this pathway although transport was unaffected. Chemotaxis to other, unrelated, chemoattractants (e.g. succinate) was unaffected. These data, in conjunction with the fact that mannitol and fructose (which utilize different transport pathways) compete in chemotaxis assays, suggest that in R. sphaeroides the chemotactic signal is likely to be generated by metabolic intermediates or the activities of the electron-transport chain and not by a cell-surface receptor or the rate or mode of substrate transport.
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- Yehudit Jeziore-Sassoon
- Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Microbiology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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Chapter 25 Phosphotransferase systems or PTSs as carbohydrate transport and as signal transduction systems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1383-8121(96)80066-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Lux R, Jahreis K, Bettenbrock K, Parkinson JS, Lengeler JW. Coupling the phosphotransferase system and the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein-dependent chemotaxis signaling pathways of Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:11583-7. [PMID: 8524808 PMCID: PMC40446 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.25.11583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Chemotactic responses in Escherichia coli are typically mediated by transmembrane receptors that monitor chemoeffector levels with periplasmic binding domains and communicate with the flagellar motors through two cytoplasmic proteins, CheA and CheY. CheA autophosphorylates and then donates its phosphate to CheY, which in turn controls flagellar rotation. E. coli also exhibits chemotactic responses to substrates that are transported by the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-dependent carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS). Unlike conventional chemoreception, PTS substrates are sensed during their uptake and concomitant phosphorylation by the cell. The phosphoryl groups are transferred from PEP to the carbohydrates through two common intermediates, enzyme I (EI) and phosphohistidine carrier protein (HPr), and then to sugar-specific enzymes II. We found that in mutant strains HPr-like proteins could substitute for HPr in transport but did not mediate chemotactic signaling. In in vitro assays, these proteins exhibited reduced phosphotransfer rates from EI, indicating that the phosphorylation state of EI might link the PTS phospho-relay to the flagellar signaling pathway. Tests with purified proteins revealed that unphosphorylated EI inhibited CheA autophosphorylation, whereas phosphorylated EI did not. These findings suggest the following model for signal transduction in PTS-dependent chemotaxis. During uptake of a PTS carbohydrate, EI is dephosphorylated more rapidly by HPr than it is phosphorylated at the expense of PEP. Consequently, unphosphorylated EI builds up and inhibits CheA autophosphorylation. This slows the flow of phosphates to CheY, eliciting an up-gradient swimming response by the cell.
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- R Lux
- Fachbereich Biologie/Chemie, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
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Johnson MS, Rowsell EH, Taylor BL. Investigation of transphosphorylation between chemotaxis proteins and the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system. FEBS Lett 1995; 374:161-4. [PMID: 7589525 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)01097-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Transphosphorylation between the chemotaxis proteins and phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) from Escherichia coli was investigated by incubating the CheA, CheW and CheY proteins of the chemotaxis cascade, and Enzyme I, HPr and Enzyme IImtl of the PTS with [gamma-32P]ATP or [32P]phosphoenolpyruvate in the presence and absence of cell extract. In the absence of cell extract, ATP phosphorylated CheA, but in the presence of cell extract, Enzyme I was also phosphorylated. Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphorylated only PTS components. The transphosphorylation of Enzyme I by ATP did not require chemotaxis proteins, and likely occurred through acetate kinase. Regardless of phosphorylation state, the HPr protein did not inhibit the rate of ATP-dependent phosphorylation of the CheA or the CheY protein. It is concluded that chemotaxis to PTS substrates is not mediated by transphosphorylation between the PTS and chemotaxis systems.
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- M S Johnson
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Loma Linda University, CA 92350, USA
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Hellingwerf KJ, Postma PW, Tommassen J, Westerhoff HV. Signal transduction in bacteria: phospho-neural network(s) in Escherichia coli? FEMS Microbiol Rev 1995; 16:309-21. [PMID: 7654406 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1995.tb00178.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The molecular basis of many forms of signal transfer in living organisms is provided via the transient phosphorylation of regulatory proteins by transfer of phosphoryl groups between these proteins. The dominant form of signal transduction in prokaryotic microorganisms proceeds via so-called two-component regulatory systems. These systems constitute phosphoryl transfer pathways, consisting of two or more components. Most of these pathways are linear, but some converge and some are divergent. The molecular properties of some of the well-characterised representatives of two-component systems comply with the requirements to be put upon the elements of a neural network: they function as logical operators and show the phenomenon of autoamplification. Because there are many phosphoryl transfer pathways in parallel and because there also appears to be cross-talk between these pathways, the total of all two-component regulatory systems in a single prokaryotic cell may show the typical characteristics of a 'phospho-neural network'. This may well lead to signal amplification, associative responses and memory effects, characteristics which are typical for neural networks. One of the main challenges in molecular microbial physiology is to determine the extent of the connectivity of the constituting elements of this presumed 'phospho-neural network', and to outline the extent of intelligence-like behaviour this network can generate. Escherichia coli is the organism of choice for this characterization.
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- K J Hellingwerf
- Vakgroep Microbiologie, E.C. Slater Instituut, BioCentrum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Begley GS, Jacobson GR. Overexpression, phosphorylation, and growth effects of ORF162, a Klebsiella pneumoniae protein that is encoded by a gene linked to rpoN, the gene encoding sigma 54. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994; 119:389-94. [PMID: 8050721 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb06918.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The product of a Klebsiella pneumoniae gene, orf162, may regulate sigma 54-dependent transcription and has sequence similarity to proteins of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS). We have overproduced the product of orf162 and demonstrated its PTS-dependent phosphorylation in Escherichia coli extracts. We have also observed moderate growth inhibition of a wild-type, but not a sigma 54-mutant, strain by overexpression of orf162. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the product of orf162 could be a regulatory link between the PTS and sigma 54 activity in bacteria.
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- G S Begley
- Department of Biology, Boston University, MA 02215
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Jacobson GR, Saraceni-Richards C. The Escherichia coli mannitol permease as a model for transport via the bacterial phosphotransferase system. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1993; 25:621-6. [PMID: 8144490 DOI: 10.1007/bf00770249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) consists of several proteins whose primary functions are to transport and phosphorylate their substrates. The complexity of the PTS undoubtedly reflects its additional roles in chemotaxis to PTS substrates and in regulation of other metabolic processes in the cell. The PTS permeases (Enzymes II) are the membrane-associated proteins of the PTS that sequentially recognize, transport, and phosphorylate their specific substrates in separate steps, and the Escherichia coli mannitol permease is one of the best studied of these proteins. It consists of two cytoplasmic domains (EIIA and EIIB) involved in mannitol phosphorylation and an integral membrane domain (EIIC) which is sufficient to bind mannitol, but which transports mannitol at a rate that is dependent on phosphorylation of the EIIA and EIIB domains. Recent results show that several residues in a hydrophilic, 85-residue segment of the EIIC domain are important for the binding, transport, and phosphorylation of mannitol. This segment may be at least partially exposed to the cytoplasm of the cell. A model is proposed in which this region of the EIIC domain is crucial in coupling phosphorylation of the EIIB domain to transport through the EIIC domain of the mannitol permease.
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- G R Jacobson
- Department of Biology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215
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A list of currently identified gene products of Escherichia coli is given, together with a bibliography that provides pointers to the literature on each gene product. A scheme to categorize cellular functions is used to classify the gene products of E. coli so far identified. A count shows that the numbers of genes concerned with small-molecule metabolism are on the same order as the numbers concerned with macromolecule biosynthesis and degradation. One large category is the category of tRNAs and their synthetases. Another is the category of transport elements. The categories of cell structure and cellular processes other than metabolism are smaller. Other subjects discussed are the occurrence in the E. coli genome of redundant pairs and groups of genes of identical or closely similar function, as well as variation in the degree of density of genetic information in different parts of the genome.
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- M Riley
- Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
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Postma PW, Lengeler JW, Jacobson GR. Phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems of bacteria. Microbiol Rev 1993; 57:543-94. [PMID: 8246840 PMCID: PMC372926 DOI: 10.1128/mr.57.3.543-594.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 850] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Numerous gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria take up carbohydrates through the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP):carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS). This system transports and phosphorylates carbohydrates at the expense of PEP and is the subject of this review. The PTS consists of two general proteins, enzyme I and HPr, and a number of carbohydrate-specific enzymes, the enzymes II. PTS proteins are phosphoproteins in which the phospho group is attached to either a histidine residue or, in a number of cases, a cysteine residue. After phosphorylation of enzyme I by PEP, the phospho group is transferred to HPr. The enzymes II are required for the transport of the carbohydrates across the membrane and the transfer of the phospho group from phospho-HPr to the carbohydrates. Biochemical, structural, and molecular genetic studies have shown that the various enzymes II have the same basic structure. Each enzyme II consists of domains for specific functions, e.g., binding of the carbohydrate or phosphorylation. Each enzyme II complex can consist of one to four different polypeptides. The enzymes II can be placed into at least four classes on the basis of sequence similarity. The genetics of the PTS is complex, and the expression of PTS proteins is intricately regulated because of the central roles of these proteins in nutrient acquisition. In addition to classical induction-repression mechanisms involving repressor and activator proteins, other types of regulation, such as antitermination, have been observed in some PTSs. Apart from their role in carbohydrate transport, PTS proteins are involved in chemotaxis toward PTS carbohydrates. Furthermore, the IIAGlc protein, part of the glucose-specific PTS, is a central regulatory protein which in its nonphosphorylated form can bind to and inhibit several non-PTS uptake systems and thus prevent entry of inducers. In its phosphorylated form, P-IIAGlc is involved in the activation of adenylate cyclase and thus in the regulation of gene expression. By sensing the presence of PTS carbohydrates in the medium and adjusting the phosphorylation state of IIAGlc, cells can adapt quickly to changing conditions in the environment. In gram-positive bacteria, it has been demonstrated that HPr can be phosphorylated by ATP on a serine residue and this modification may perform a regulatory function.
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- P W Postma
- E. C. Slater Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Deamidation of HPr, a phosphocarrier protein of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system, involves asparagine 38 (HPr-1) and asparagine 12 (HPr-2) in isoaspartyl acid formation. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)46760-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Jahreis K, Lengeler JW. Molecular analysis of two ScrR repressors and of a ScrR-FruR hybrid repressor for sucrose and D-fructose specific regulons from enteric bacteria. Mol Microbiol 1993; 9:195-209. [PMID: 8412665 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01681.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The scr regulon of pUR400 and the chromosomally encoded scr regulon of Klebsiella pneumoniae KAY2026 are both negatively controlled by a specific repressor (ScrR). As deduced from the nucleotide sequences, both scrR genes encode polypeptides of 334 residues (85.5% identical base pairs, 91.3% identical amino acids), containing an N-terminal helix-turn-helix motif. Comparison with other regulatory proteins revealed 30.6% identical amino acids to FruR, 27.0% to Lacl and 28.1% to GalR. Six scrRs super-repressor mutations define the inducer-binding domain. The scr operator sequences were identified by in vivo titration tests of the sucrose repressor and by in vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays. D-fructose, an intracellular product of sucrose transport and hydrolysis, and D-fructose 1-phosphate were shown to be molecular inducers of both scr regulons. An active ScrR-FruR hybrid repressor protein was constructed with the N-terminal part of the sucrose repressor of K. pneumoniae and the C-terminal part of the fructose repressor of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Gel retardation assays showed that the hybrid protein bound to scr-specific operators, and that D-fructose 1-phosphate, the inducer for FruR, was the only inducer. In vivo, neither the operators of the fru operon nor of the pps operon, the natural targets for FruR, were recognized, but the scr operators were. These data and the data obtained from the super-repressor alleles confirm previous models on the binding of repressors of the Lacl family to their operators.
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- K Jahreis
- Arbeitsgruppe Genetik, Universität Osnabrück, Germany
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Yu C, Bassler B, Roseman S. Chemotaxis of the marine bacterium Vibrio furnissii to sugars. A potential mechanism for initiating the chitin catabolic cascade. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98365-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Dailey FE, Berg HC. Change in direction of flagellar rotation in Escherichia coli mediated by acetate kinase. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:3236-9. [PMID: 8098330 PMCID: PMC204652 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.10.3236-3239.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Strains of Escherichia coli lacking all cytoplasmic chemotaxis proteins except CheY swim smoothly under most conditions. However, they tumble when exposed to acetate. Acetate coenzyme A synthetase (EC 6.2.1.1) was thought to be essential for this response. New evidence suggests that the tumbling is mediated instead by acetate kinase (EC 2.7.2.1), which might phosphorylate CheY via acetyl phosphate. In strains that were wild type for chemotaxis, neither acetate coenzyme A synthetase, acetate kinase, nor phosphotransacetylase (EC 2.3.1.8) (and thus acetyl phosphate) was required for responses to aspartate, serine, or sugars sensed by the phosphotransferase system. Thus, acetate-induced tumbling does not appear to play an essential role in chemotaxis in wild-type cells.
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- F E Dailey
- Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Titgemeyer F. Signal transduction in chemotaxis mediated by the bacterial phosphotransferase system. J Cell Biochem 1993; 51:69-74. [PMID: 8432745 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240510113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Gram-negative bacteria are able to respond chemotactically to carbohydrates which are substrates of the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS). The mechanism of signal transduction in PTS-mediated chemotaxis is different from the well-studied mechanism involving methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs). In PTS-mediated chemotaxis, carbohydrate transport is required, and phosphorylation seems to be involved in both excitation and adaptation. In this review the roles of the components of the PTS in chemotactic signal transduction are discussed.
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- F Titgemeyer
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0116
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Weng Q, Elder J, Jacobson G. Site-specific mutagenesis of residues in the Escherichia coli mannitol permease that have been suggested to be important for its phosphorylation and chemoreception functions. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41807-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Schlaepfer D, Fisher D, Brandt M, Bode H, Jones J, Haigler H. Identification of a novel annexin in Hydra vulgaris. Characterization, cDNA cloning, and protein kinase C phosphorylation of annexin XII. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)50123-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Wanner BL. Is cross regulation by phosphorylation of two-component response regulator proteins important in bacteria? J Bacteriol 1992; 174:2053-8. [PMID: 1551826 PMCID: PMC205819 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.7.2053-2058.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- B L Wanner
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Cyclic AMP (cAMP) is found in a variety of prokaryotes including both eubacteria and archaebacteria. cAMP plays a role in regulating gene expression, not only for the classic inducible catabolic operons, but also for other categories. In the enteric coliforms, the effects of cAMP on gene expression are mediated through its interaction with and allosteric modification of a cAMP-binding protein (CRP). The CRP-cAMP complex subsequently binds specific DNA sequences and either activates or inhibits transcription depending upon the positioning of the complex relative to the promoter. Enteric coliforms have provided a model to explore the mechanisms involved in controlling adenylate cyclase activity, in regulating adenylate cyclase synthesis, and in performing detailed examinations of CRP-cAMP complex-regulated gene expression. This review summarizes recent work focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of CRP-cAMP complex-mediated processes. For other bacteria, less detail is known. cAMP has been implicated in regulating antibiotic production, phototrophic growth, and pathogenesis. A role for cAMP has been suggested in nitrogen fixation. Often the only data that support cAMP involvement in these processes includes cAMP measurement, detection of the enzymes involved in cAMP metabolism, or observed effects of high concentrations of the nucleotide on cell growth.
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- J L Botsford
- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003
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Abstract
Cyclic AMP (cAMP) is found in a variety of prokaryotes including both eubacteria and archaebacteria. cAMP plays a role in regulating gene expression, not only for the classic inducible catabolic operons, but also for other categories. In the enteric coliforms, the effects of cAMP on gene expression are mediated through its interaction with and allosteric modification of a cAMP-binding protein (CRP). The CRP-cAMP complex subsequently binds specific DNA sequences and either activates or inhibits transcription depending upon the positioning of the complex relative to the promoter. Enteric coliforms have provided a model to explore the mechanisms involved in controlling adenylate cyclase activity, in regulating adenylate cyclase synthesis, and in performing detailed examinations of CRP-cAMP complex-regulated gene expression. This review summarizes recent work focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of CRP-cAMP complex-mediated processes. For other bacteria, less detail is known. cAMP has been implicated in regulating antibiotic production, phototrophic growth, and pathogenesis. A role for cAMP has been suggested in nitrogen fixation. Often the only data that support cAMP involvement in these processes includes cAMP measurement, detection of the enzymes involved in cAMP metabolism, or observed effects of high concentrations of the nucleotide on cell growth.
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- J L Botsford
- Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003
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Jacobson GR. Interrelationships between protein phosphorylation and oligomerization in transport and chemotaxis via the Escherichia coli mannitol phosphotransferase system. Res Microbiol 1992; 143:113-6. [PMID: 1641509 DOI: 10.1016/0923-2508(92)90040-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The membrane-bound enzymes II of the bacterial carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) are multifunctional: they are required for the transport, phosphorylation and chemotactic sensing of their substrates. An oligomer (minimally a dimer) of at least one of these PTS permeases, the Escherichia coli mannitol permease, appears to be necessary for this protein to optimally carry out these functions. Much indirect evidence is consistent with this hypothesis, and recent experiments show that transport and phosphorylation of, and chemotaxis to, mannitol in E. coli involves an intersubunit phosphotransfer reaction, which can only occur in a protein oligomer. Membrane topological studies of the mannitol permease also argue in favour of an oligomeric structure in the membrane which may be necessary to form the hydrophilic channel through which mannitol must traverse the phospholipid bilayer. The possibility that the oligomerization state of the mannitol permease is a target for regulation of its activity in vivo is proposed, but has not yet been explored experimentally.
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- G R Jacobson
- Department of Biology, Boston University, MA 02215
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Erni B. Group translocation of glucose and other carbohydrates by the bacterial phosphotransferase system. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1992; 137:127-48. [PMID: 1428669 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62675-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- B Erni
- Institut für Biochemie, Universität Bern, Switzerland
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- M D Manson
- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843-3258
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Pries A, Priefert H, Krüger N, Steinbüchel A. Identification and characterization of two Alcaligenes eutrophus gene loci relevant to the poly(beta-hydroxybutyric acid)-leaky phenotype which exhibit homology to ptsH and ptsI of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:5843-53. [PMID: 1653223 PMCID: PMC208318 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.18.5843-5853.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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From genomic libraries of Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 in lambda L47 and in pVK100, we cloned DNA fragments which restored the wild-type phenotype to poly(beta-hydroxybutyric acid) (PHB)-leaky mutants derived from strains H16 and JMP222. The nucleotide sequence analysis of a 4.5-kb region of one of these fragments revealed two adjacent open reading frames (ORF) which are relevant for the expression of the PHB-leaky phenotype. The 1,799-bp ORF1 represented a gene which was referred to as phbI. The amino acid sequence of the putative protein I (Mr, 65,167), which was deduced from phbI, exhibited 38.9% identity with the primary structure of enzyme I of the Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PEP-PTS). The upstream 579-bp ORF2 was separated by 50 bp from ORF1. It included the 270-bp phbH gene which encoded protein H (Mr, 9,469). This protein exhibited 34.9% identity to the HPr protein of the E. coli PEP-PTS. Insertions of Tn5 in different PHB-leaky mutants were mapped at eight different positions in phbI and at one position in phbH. Mutants defective in phbH or phbI exhibited no pleiotropic effects and were not altered with respect to the utilization of fructose. However, PHB was degraded at a higher rate in the stationary growth phase. The functions of these HPr- and enzyme I-like proteins in the metabolism of PHB are still unknown. Evidence for the involvement of these proteins in regulation of the metabolism of intracellular PHB was obtained, and a hypothetical model is proposed.
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- A Pries
- Institut für Mikrobiologie Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
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