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Barske T, Spät P, Schubert H, Walke P, Maček B, Hagemann M. The Role of Serine/Threonine-Specific Protein Kinases in Cyanobacteria - SpkB Is Involved in Acclimation to Fluctuating Conditions in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Mol Cell Proteomics 2023; 22:100656. [PMID: 37797745 PMCID: PMC10651672 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/01/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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Protein phosphorylation via serine/threonine protein kinases (Spk) is a widespread mechanism to adjust cellular processes toward changing environmental conditions. To study their role(s) in cyanobacteria, we investigated a collection of 11 completely segregated spk mutants among the 12 annotated Spks in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Screening of the mutant collection revealed that especially the mutant defective in SpkB encoded by slr1697 showed clear deviations regarding carbon metabolism, that is, reduced growth rates at low CO2 or in the presence of glucose, and different glycogen accumulation patterns compared to WT. Alterations in the proteome of ΔspkB indicated changes of the cell surface but also metabolic functions. A phospho-proteome analysis revealed the absence of any phosphorylation in two proteins, while decreased phosphorylation of the carboxysome-associated protein CcmM and increased phosphorylation of the allophycocyanin alpha subunit ApcA was detected in ΔspkB. Furthermore, the regulatory PII protein appeared less phosphorylated in the mutant compared to WT, which was verified in Western blot experiments, indicating a clearly delayed PII phosphorylation in cells shifted from nitrate-containing to nitrate-free medium. Our results indicate that SpkB is an important regulator in Synechocystis that is involved in phosphorylation of the PII protein and additional proteins.
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- Thomas Barske
- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Organismic Interactions, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Department of Quantitative Proteomics, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology, Institute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Quantitative Proteomics, Interfaculty Institute for Cell Biology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biosciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; Interdisciplinary Faculty, Department Life, Light and Matter, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
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Zorina AA, Novikova GV, Gusev NB, Leusenko AV, Los DA, Klychnikov OI. SpkH (Sll0005) from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is an active Mn 2+-dependent Ser kinase. Biochimie 2023; 213:114-122. [PMID: 37209809 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2023.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Twelve genes for the potential serine-threonine protein kinases (STPKs) have been annotated in the genome of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Based on similarities and distinctive domain organization, they were divided into two clusters: serine/threonine-protein N2-like kinases (PKN2-type) and "activity of bc1 complex" kinases (ABC1-type). While the activity of the PKN2-type kinases have been demonstrated, no ABC1-type kinases activity have hitherto been reported. In this study, a recombinant protein previously annotated as a potential STPK of ABC1-type (SpkH, Sll0005) was expressed and purified to homogeneity. We demonstrated SpkH phosphorylating activity and substrate preference for casein in in vitro assays using [γ-32P]ATP. Detailed analyses of activity showed that Mn2+ had the strongest activation effect. The activity of SpkH was significantly inhibited by heparin and spermine, but not by staurosporine. By means of semi-quantitative mass-spectrometric detection of phosphopeptides, we identified a consensus motif recognized by this kinase - X1X2pSX3E. Thus, we first report here that SpkH of Synechocystis represents a true active serine protein kinase, which shares the properties of casein kinases according to its substrate specificity and sensitivity to some activity effectors.
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- A A Zorina
- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, 127276, Russia.
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, 127276, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, 127276, Russia
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, 127276, Russia
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- K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya Street 35, Moscow, 127276, Russia; Department of Biochemistry, School of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
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Koskinen S, Kurkela J, Linhartová M, Tyystjärvi T. The genome sequence of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substrain GT-T and its implications for the evolution of PCC 6803 substrains. FEBS Open Bio 2023; 13:701-712. [PMID: 36792971 PMCID: PMC10068330 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is a model cyanobacterium, glucose-tolerant substrains of which are commonly used as laboratory strains. In recent years, it has become evident that 'wild-type' strains used in different laboratories show some differences in their phenotypes. We report here the chromosome sequence of our Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substrain, named substrain GT-T. The chromosome sequence of GT-T was compared to those of two other commonly used laboratory substrains, GT-S and PCC-M. We identified 11 specific mutations in the GT-T substrain, whose physiological consequences are discussed. We also provide an update on evolutionary relationships between different Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substrains.
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- Satu Koskinen
- Department of Life Sciences/Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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- Department of Life Sciences/Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Department of Life Sciences/Molecular Plant Biology, University of Turku, Finland
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Discovery of a small protein factor involved in the coordinated degradation of phycobilisomes in cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2012277118. [PMID: 33509926 PMCID: PMC7865187 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2012277118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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During genome analysis, genes encoding small proteins are frequently neglected. Accordingly, small proteins have remained underinvestigated in all domains of life. Based on a previous systematic search for such genes, we present the functional analysis of the 66 amino acids protein NblD in a photosynthetic cyanobacterium. We show that NblD plays a crucial role during the coordinated dismantling of phycobilisome light-harvesting complexes. This disassembly is triggered when the cells become starved for nitrogen, a condition that frequently occurs in nature. Similar to NblA that tags phycobiliproteins for proteolysis, NblD binds to phycocyanin polypeptides but has a different function. The results show that, even in a well-investigated process, crucial new players can be discovered if small proteins are taken into consideration. Phycobilisomes are the major pigment–protein antenna complexes that perform photosynthetic light harvesting in cyanobacteria, rhodophyte, and glaucophyte algae. Up to 50% of the cellular nitrogen can be stored in their giant structures. Accordingly, upon nitrogen depletion, phycobilisomes are rapidly degraded following an intricate genetic program. Here, we describe the role of NblD, a cysteine-rich, small protein in this process in cyanobacteria. Deletion of the nblD gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 prevented the degradation of phycobilisomes, leading to a nonbleaching (nbl) phenotype, which could be complemented by a plasmid-localized gene copy. Competitive growth experiments between the ΔnblD and the wild-type strain provided direct evidence for the physiological importance of NblD under nitrogen-limited conditions. Ectopic expression of NblD under nitrogen-replete conditions showed no effect, in contrast to the unrelated proteolysis adaptors NblA1 and NblA2, which can trigger phycobilisome degradation. Transcriptome analysis indicated increased nblA1/2 transcript levels in the ΔnblD strain during nitrogen starvation, implying that NblD does not act as a transcriptional (co)regulator. However, immunoprecipitation and far-western experiments identified the chromophorylated (holo form) of the phycocyanin β-subunit (CpcB) as its target, while apo-CpcB was not bound. The addition of recombinant NblD to isolated phycobilisomes caused a reduction in phycocyanin absorbance and a broadening and shifting of the peak to lower wavelengths, indicating the occurrence of structural changes. These data demonstrate that NblD plays a crucial role in the coordinated dismantling of phycobilisomes and add it as a factor to the genetically programmed response to nitrogen starvation.
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Zhang H, Ge H, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Zhang P. Slr0320 Is Crucial for Optimal Function of Photosystem II during High Light Acclimation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Life (Basel) 2021; 11:life11040279. [PMID: 33810453 PMCID: PMC8065906 DOI: 10.3390/life11040279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Upon exposure of photosynthetic organisms to high light (HL), several HL acclimation responses are triggered. Herein, we identified a novel gene, slr0320, critical for HL acclimation in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The growth rate of the Δslr0320 mutant was similar to wild type (WT) under normal light (NL) but severely declined under HL. Net photosynthesis of the mutant was lower under HL, but maximum photosystem II (PSII) activity was higher under NL and HL. Immunodetection revealed the accumulation and assembly of PSII were similar between WT and the mutant. Chlorophyll fluorescence traces showed the stable fluorescence of the mutant under light was much higher. Kinetics of single flash-induced chlorophyll fluorescence increase and decay revealed the slower electron transfer from QA to QB in the mutant. These data indicate that, in the Δslr0320 mutant, the number of functional PSIIs was comparable to WT even under HL but the electron transfer between QA and QB was inefficient. Quantitative proteomics and real-time PCR revealed that expression profiles of psbL, psbH and psbI were significantly altered in the Δslr0320 mutant. Thus, Slr0320 protein plays critical roles in optimizing PSII activity during HL acclimation and is essential for PSII electron transfer from QA to QB.
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- Hao Zhang
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (H.Z.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; (H.G.); (Y.W.)
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (H.Z.); (Y.Z.)
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- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; (H.G.); (Y.W.)
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; (H.Z.); (Y.Z.)
- Correspondence:
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Dai W, Chen G, Bi X, Zhong H, Wang X, Dong S, Lv D, Zhang S, Zhang D, Wang N. Light limitation inducing overcompensatory growth of cyanobacteria and function of serine/threonine kinase (STK) genes involved. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2021; 83:1347-1356. [PMID: 33767041 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2021.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The rapid overcompensatory growth that appears when cyanobacteria are supplied with adequate resources after a period of resource deprivation might contribute to the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms. We investigated the changing characteristics of overcompensatory growth and serine/threonine kinase (STK) genes expression of cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa in response to light limitation. The results showed M. aeruginosa exhibited overcompensatory growth for 2 days after light recovery, during which the increase in growth was inversely related to light intensity. Expression of STK genes, such as spkD, was upregulated significantly at 0.5-4 h after light recovery (P < 0.05). To investigate the function of STK genes in the overcompensatory growth, M. aeruginosa spkD was heterologously expressed in Synechocystis. Transgenic Synechocystis exhibited greater and longer overcompensatory growth than wild-type Synechocystis after light recovery. Relative expression levels of STK genes in transgenic Synechocystis were significantly higher than those in wild-type Synechocystis at 24 h of light recovery (P < 0.05). Heterologous expression of Microcystis spkD might stimulate overcompensatory growth of Synechocystis by affecting its STK gene expression.
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- Wei Dai
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail: ; † Wei Dai and Gao Chen are co-first authors of the article
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ji'nan, China and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Ji'nan, China; † Wei Dai and Gao Chen are co-first authors of the article
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ji'nan, China and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Ji'nan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China E-mail:
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Chen G, Cao Y, Zhong H, Wang X, Li Y, Cui X, Lu X, Bi X, Dai M. Serine/threonine Kinases Play Important Roles in Regulating Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:618969. [PMID: 33553135 PMCID: PMC7860145 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.618969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Serine/threonine kinases (STKs) play important roles in prokaryotic cellular functions such as growth, differentiation, and secondary metabolism. When the external environment changes, prokaryotes rely on signal transduction systems, including STKs that quickly sense these changes and alter gene expression to induce the appropriate metabolic changes. In this study, we examined the roles of the STK genes spkD and spkG in fatty acid biosynthesis in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, using targeted gene knockout. The linoleic acid (C18: 2), γ-linolenic acid (C18: 3n6), α-linolenic acid (C18: 3n3), and stearidonic acid (C18: 4) levels were significantly lower in spkD and spkG gene knockout mutants than in the wild type at a culture temperature of 30°C and a light intensity of 40 μmol⋅m–2⋅s–1. The expression levels of fatty acid desaturases and STK genes differed between the spkD and spkG gene knockout mutants. These observations suggest that spkD and spkG may directly or indirectly affect the fatty acid composition in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 by regulating the expression of fatty acid desaturases genes. Therefore, the STK genes spkD and spkG play important roles in polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. These findings could facilitate the development of cyanobacteria germplasm resources that yield high levels of fatty acids. In addition, they provide a theoretical basis for the genetic engineering of cyanobacteria with improved yields of secondary metabolites and increased economic benefits.
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- Gao Chen
- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.,Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.,Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.,Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.,Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genetic Improvement, Ecology and Physiology of Crops, Jinan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Aquatic-Ecology and Aquaculture of Tianjin, College of Fishery, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Thirumurthy MA, Hitchcock A, Cereda A, Liu J, Chavez MS, Doss BL, Ros R, El-Naggar MY, Heap JT, Bibby TS, Jones AK. Type IV Pili-Independent Photocurrent Production by the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1344. [PMID: 32714295 PMCID: PMC7344198 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Biophotovoltaic devices utilize photosynthetic organisms such as the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (Synechocystis) to generate current for power or hydrogen production from light. These devices have been improved by both architecture engineering and genetic engineering of the phototrophic organism. However, genetic approaches are limited by lack of understanding of cellular mechanisms of electron transfer from internal metabolism to the cell exterior. Type IV pili have been implicated in extracellular electron transfer (EET) in some species of heterotrophic bacteria. Furthermore, conductive cell surface filaments have been reported for cyanobacteria, including Synechocystis. However, it remains unclear whether these filaments are type IV pili and whether they are involved in EET. Herein, a mediatorless electrochemical setup is used to compare the electrogenic output of wild-type Synechocystis to that of a ΔpilD mutant that cannot produce type IV pili. No differences in photocurrent, i.e., current in response to illumination, are detectable. Furthermore, measurements of individual pili using conductive atomic force microscopy indicate these structures are not conductive. These results suggest that pili are not required for EET by Synechocystis, supporting a role for shuttling of electrons via soluble redox mediators or direct interactions between the cell surface and extracellular substrates.
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
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Chen Z, Li X, Tan X, Zhang Y, Wang B. Recent Advances in Biological Functions of Thick Pili in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:241. [PMID: 32210999 PMCID: PMC7076178 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Cyanobacteria have evolved various strategies to sense and adapt to biotic and abiotic stresses including active movement. Motility in cyanobacteria utilizing the type IV pili (TFP) is useful to cope with changing environmental conditions. The model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter named Synechocystis) exhibits motility via TFP called thick pili, and uses it to seek out favorable light/nutrition or escape from unfavorable conditions. Recently, a number of studies on Synechocystis thick pili have been undertaken. Molecular approaches support the role of the pilin in motility, cell adhesion, metal utilization, and natural competence in Synechocystis. This review summarizes the most recent studies on the function of thick pili as well as their formation and regulation in this cyanobacterium.
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- Zhuo Chen
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Hubei University, Wuhan, China
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Stress, College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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Calzadilla PI, Kirilovsky D. Revisiting cyanobacterial state transitions. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2020; 19:585-603. [DOI: 10.1039/c9pp00451c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Critical evaluation of “new” and “old” models of cyanobacterial state transitions. Phycobilisome and membrane contributions to this mechanism are addressed. The signaling transduction pathway is discussed.
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- Pablo I. Calzadilla
- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- CEA
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)
- 91198 Gif sur Yvette
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- Université Paris-Saclay
- CNRS
- CEA
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC)
- 91198 Gif sur Yvette
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Calzadilla PI, Zhan J, Sétif P, Lemaire C, Solymosi D, Battchikova N, Wang Q, Kirilovsky D. The Cytochrome b 6 f Complex Is Not Involved in Cyanobacterial State Transitions. THE PLANT CELL 2019; 31:911-931. [PMID: 30852554 PMCID: PMC6501608 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.00916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Photosynthetic organisms must sense and respond to fluctuating environmental conditions in order to perform efficient photosynthesis and to avoid the formation of dangerous reactive oxygen species. The excitation energy arriving at each photosystem permanently changes due to variations in the intensity and spectral properties of the absorbed light. Cyanobacteria, like plants and algae, have developed a mechanism, named "state transitions," that balances photosystem activities. Here, we characterize the role of the cytochrome b 6 f complex and phosphorylation reactions in cyanobacterial state transitions using Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 and Synechocystis PCC 6803 as model organisms. First, large photosystem II (PSII) fluorescence quenching was observed in State II, a result that does not appear to be related to energy transfer from PSII to PSI (spillover). This membrane-associated process was inhibited by betaine, Suc, and high concentrations of phosphate. Then, using different chemicals affecting the plastoquinone pool redox state and cytochrome b 6 f activity, we demonstrate that this complex is not involved in state transitions in S. elongatus or Synechocystis PCC6803. Finally, by constructing and characterizing 21 protein kinase and phosphatase mutants and using chemical inhibitors, we demonstrate that phosphorylation reactions are not essential for cyanobacterial state transitions. Thus, signal transduction is completely different in cyanobacterial and plant (green alga) state transitions.
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- Pablo I Calzadilla
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Molecular Plant Biology Lab, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Turku, Turku, FI-20014, Finland
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- Molecular Plant Biology Lab, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Turku, Turku, FI-20014, Finland
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
- Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Qiao C, Zhang M, Luo Q, Lu X. Identification of two two-component signal transduction mutants with enhanced sucrose biosynthesis in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J Basic Microbiol 2019; 59:465-476. [PMID: 30802333 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201800676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 01/13/2019] [Accepted: 01/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Metabolic engineering of the freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 (Syn7942), synthesizing sucrose as the only compatible solute upon salt stress, has greatly improved its sucrose productivity. However, the signaling and regulatory mechanisms of this physiological process are still unknown. To know more about these aspects, a library of inactivation mutants for all 44 predicted signal transduction genes of Syn7942 was constructed. By evaluating sucrose production, two two-component signal transduction mutants Δ1125 and Δ1404, in which Synpcc7942_1125 and Synpcc7942_1404 was inactivated, respectively, were identified. They exhibited stably enhanced sucrose production, but the growth and the expression of sps encoding sucrose-phosphate synthase under salt stress were not affected, indicating that the corresponding signal transduction proteins do not regulate salt-induced sucrose synthesis by directly regulating sps expression. Moreover, the glycogen accumulation was enhanced in Δ1125 and Δ1404, and the salt stress-intensified photodamage of these mutants was also found to be relieved. These results indicated that the basic cell metabolisms such as glycogen metabolism and photosynthesis of the mutants were affected by gene inactivation, which might further affect salt-induced sucrose synthesis. Further studies on gene functions and signaling pathways or networks of Synpcc7942_1125 and Synpcc7942_1404 would reveal more details about the molecular bases for the observed phenotypes of Δ1125 and Δ1404.
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- Cuncun Qiao
- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.,Marine Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Aoshanwei, Qingdao, China
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Xu W, Wang Y. Sequences, Domain Architectures, and Biological Functions of the Serine/Threonine and Histidine Kinases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2019; 188:1022-1065. [PMID: 30778824 DOI: 10.1007/s12010-019-02971-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter Synechocystis) is a photoautotrophic prokaryote with plant-like photosynthetic machineries which significantly contribute to global carbon fixation and atmospheric oxygen production. Because of the relatively short cell doubling time, small size of the genome, and the ease for genetic manipulation, Synechocystis is a popular model organism for studies including photosynthesis and biofuel production. The cyanobacterium contains 12 eukaryotic type Ser/Thr kinases (SpkA-L) and 49 histidine kinases (Hik1-47 and Sll1334 and Sll5060 are named as Hik48 and Hik49, respectively, in this review) of the two-component system. All SpkA-L kinases have a eukaryotic kinase DFG signature in their A-loops. Based on the types of the kinase domains, the Spks can be separated into three groups: one group contains SpkA and SpkG which are related to human kinases, while SpkH-L are in another group that is distinct from human kinases. The third group contains SpkB-F which are between the first two groups. Four histidine kinases (Hiks17, 36, 45, and 48) lack a clear histidine kinase domain, and the conserved phosphorylatable histidine residue could not be identified for six histidine kinases (Hiks11, 18, 29, 37, 39, and 43) even though they have clear histidine kinase domains. Each of the remaining 39 has a histidine kinase domain with the conserved histidine residue. Eight hybrid histidine kinases contain one or two receiver domains, and they all, except Hik25 (Slr0222), have the conserved phosphorylatable aspartate. The disruptants of all kinases except hik13 and hik15 have been generated, and the majority of them have modest or no obvious phenotypes, indicating other kinases could functionally compensate the loss of a particular kinase. This review presents a comprehensive discussion including a spectrum of sequence, domain architecture, in vivo function, and proteomics investigations of Ser/Thr and histidine kinases. Understanding the sequences, domain architectures, and biology of the kinases will help to integrate "omic" data to clarify their exact biochemical functions.
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- Wu Xu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70504, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1 West Beichen Rd., Beijing, 100101, China.
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Sycrp2 Is Essential for Twitching Motility in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803. J Bacteriol 2018; 200:JB.00436-18. [PMID: 30104238 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00436-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Two cAMP receptor proteins (CRPs), Sycrp1 (encoded by sll1371) and Sycrp2 (encoded by sll1924), exist in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Previous studies have demonstrated that Sycrp1 has binding affinity for cAMP and is involved in motility by regulating the formation of pili. However, the function of Sycrp2 remains unknown. Here, we report that sycrp2 disruption results in the loss of motility of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, and that the phenotype can be recovered by reintroducing the sycrp2 gene into the genome of sycrp2-disrupted mutants. Electron microscopy showed that the sycrp2-disrupted mutant lost the pilus apparatus on the cell surface, resulting in a lack of cell motility. Furthermore, the transcript level of the pilA9-pilA11 operon (essential for cell motility and regulated by the cAMP receptor protein Sycrp1) was markedly decreased in sycrp2-disrupted mutants compared with the wild-type strain. Moreover, yeast two-hybrid analysis and a pulldown assay demonstrated that Sycrp2 interacted with Sycrp1 to form a heterodimer and that Sycrp1 and Sycrp2 interacted with themselves to form homodimers. Gel mobility shift assays revealed that Sycrp1 specifically binds to the upstream region of pilA9 Together, these findings indicate that in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Sycrp2 regulates the formation of pili and cell motility by interacting with Sycrp1.IMPORTANCE cAMP receptor proteins (CRPs) are widely distributed in cyanobacteria and play important roles in regulating gene expression. Although many cyanobacterial species have two cAMP receptor-like proteins, the functional links between them are unknown. Here, we found that Sycrp2 in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is essential for twitching motility and that it interacts with Sycrp1, a known cAMP receptor protein involved with twitching motility. Our findings indicate that the two cAMP receptor-like proteins in cyanobacteria do not have functional redundancy but rather work together.
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Janczarek M, Vinardell JM, Lipa P, Karaś M. Hanks-Type Serine/Threonine Protein Kinases and Phosphatases in Bacteria: Roles in Signaling and Adaptation to Various Environments. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19102872. [PMID: 30248937 PMCID: PMC6213207 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19102872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Revised: 09/17/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Reversible phosphorylation is a key mechanism that regulates many cellular processes in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In prokaryotes, signal transduction includes two-component signaling systems, which involve a membrane sensor histidine kinase and a cognate DNA-binding response regulator. Several recent studies indicate that alternative regulatory pathways controlled by Hanks-type serine/threonine kinases (STKs) and serine/threonine phosphatases (STPs) also play an essential role in regulation of many different processes in bacteria, such as growth and cell division, cell wall biosynthesis, sporulation, biofilm formation, stress response, metabolic and developmental processes, as well as interactions (either pathogenic or symbiotic) with higher host organisms. Since these enzymes are not DNA-binding proteins, they exert the regulatory role via post-translational modifications of their protein targets. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge of STKs and STPs, and discuss how these enzymes mediate gene expression in prokaryotes. Many studies indicate that regulatory systems based on Hanks-type STKs and STPs play an essential role in the regulation of various cellular processes, by reversibly phosphorylating many protein targets, among them several regulatory proteins of other signaling cascades. These data show high complexity of bacterial regulatory network, in which the crosstalk between STK/STP signaling enzymes, components of TCSs, and the translational machinery occurs. In this regulation, the STK/STP systems have been proved to play important roles.
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- Monika Janczarek
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19 St., 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes 6, 41012 Sevilla, Spain.
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19 St., 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19 St., 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
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Surface Display of Small Affinity Proteins on Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 Mediated by Fusion to the Major Type IV Pilin PilA1. J Bacteriol 2018; 200:JB.00270-18. [PMID: 29844032 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00270-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Functional surface display of small affinity proteins, namely, affibodies (6.5 kDa), was evaluated for the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 through anchoring to native surface structures. These structures included confirmed or putative subunits of the type IV pili, the S-layer protein, and the heterologous Escherichia coli autotransporter antigen 43 system. The most stable display system was determined to be through C-terminal fusion to PilA1, the major type IV pilus subunit in Synechocystis, in a strain unable to retract these pili (ΔpilT1). Type IV pilus synthesis was upheld, albeit reduced, when fusion proteins were incorporated. However, pilus-mediated functions, such as motility and transformational competency, were negatively affected. Display of affibodies on Synechocystis and the complementary anti-idiotypic affibodies on E. coli or Staphylococcus carnosus was able to mediate interspecies cell-cell binding by affibody complex formation. The same strategy, however, was not able to drive cell-cell binding and aggregation of Synechocystis-only mixtures. Successful affibody tagging of the putative minor pilin PilA4 showed that it locates to the type IV pili in Synechocystis and that its extracellular availability depends on PilA1. In addition, affibody tagging of the S-layer protein indicated that the domains responsible for the anchoring and secretion of this protein are located at the N and C termini, respectively. This study can serve as a basis for future surface display of proteins on Synechocystis for biotechnological applications.IMPORTANCE Cyanobacteria are gaining interest for their potential as autotrophic cell factories. Development of efficient surface display strategies could improve their suitability for large-scale applications by providing options for designed microbial consortia, cell immobilization, and biomass harvesting. Here, surface display of small affinity proteins was realized by fusing them to the major subunit of the native type IV pili in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. The display of complementary affinity proteins allowed specific cell-cell binding between Synechocystis and Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus carnosus Additionally, successful tagging of the putative pilin PilA4 helped determine its localization to the type IV pili. Analogous tagging of the S-layer protein shed light on the regions involved in its secretion and surface anchoring.
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Hu J, Zhan J, Chen H, He C, Cang H, Wang Q. The Small Regulatory Antisense RNA PilR Affects Pilus Formation and Cell Motility by Negatively Regulating pilA11 in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:786. [PMID: 29740417 PMCID: PMC5924778 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Pili are found on the surface of many bacteria and play important roles in cell motility, pathogenesis, biofilm formation, and sensing and reacting to environmental changes. Cell motility in the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 relies on expression of the putative pilA9-pilA10-pilA11-slr2018 operon. In this study, we identified the antisense RNA PilR encoded in the noncoding strand of the prepilin-encoding gene pilA11. Analysis of overexpressor [PilR(+)] and suppressor [PilR(-)] mutant strains revealed that PilR is a direct negative regulator of PilA11 protein. Although overexpression of PilR did not affect cell growth, it greatly reduced levels of pilA11 mRNA and protein and decreased both the thickness and number of pili, resulting in limited cell motility and small, distinct colonies. Suppression of PilR had the opposite effect. A hypothetical model on the regulation of pilA9-pilA10-pilA11-slr2018 operon expression by PilR was proposed. These results add a layer of complexity to the mechanisms controlling pilA11 gene expression and cell motility, and provide novel insights into how sRNA and the intergenic region secondary structures can work together to discoordinatly regulate target gene in an operon in cyanobacterium.
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- Jinlu Hu
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.,Donghu Experimental Station of Lake Ecosystems, State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology of China, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Angeleri M, Zorina A, Aro EM, Battchikova N. Interplay of SpkG kinase and the Slr0151 protein in the phosphorylation of ferredoxin 5 in Synechocystis
sp. strain PCC 6803. FEBS Lett 2018; 592:411-421. [DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Martina Angeleri
- Molecular Plant Biology; Department of Biochemistry; University of Turku; Finland
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- Institute of Plant Physiology; Laboratory of Intracellular Regulation; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow Russia
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- Molecular Plant Biology; Department of Biochemistry; University of Turku; Finland
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- Molecular Plant Biology; Department of Biochemistry; University of Turku; Finland
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Lamb JJ, Hohmann-Marriott MF. Manganese acquisition is facilitated by PilA in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0184685. [PMID: 29016622 PMCID: PMC5634550 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Manganese is an essential element required by cyanobacteria, as it is an essential part of the oxygen-evolving center of photosystem II. In the presence of atmospheric oxygen, manganese is present as manganese oxides, which have low solubility and consequently provide low bioavailability. It is unknown if cyanobacteria are able to utilize these manganese sources, and what mechanisms may be employed to do so. Recent evidence suggests that type IV pili in non-photosynthetic bacteria facilitate electron donation to extracellular electron acceptors, thereby enabling metal acquisition. Our present study investigates whether PilA1 (major pilin protein of type IV pili) enables the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6808 to access to Mn from manganese oxides. We present physiological and spectroscopic data, which indicate that the presence of PilA1 enhances the ability of cyanobacteria to grow on manganese oxides. These observations suggest a role of PilA1-containing pili in cyanobacterial manganese acquisition.
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- Jacob J. Lamb
- Department of Biotechnology & PhotoSynLab, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Electronic Systems & ENERSENSE, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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Vivek PJ, Resmi MS, Sreekumar S, Sivakumar KC, Tuteja N, Soniya EV. Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase in Ginger Binds with Importin-α through Its Junction Domain for Nuclear Localization, and Further Interacts with NAC Transcription Factor. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:1909. [PMID: 28133460 PMCID: PMC5233720 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) are important sensors of Ca2+ elevations in plant cells regulating the gene expression linked with various cellular processes like stress response, growth and development, metabolism, and cytoskeleton dynamics. Ginger is an extensively used spice due to its unique flavor and immense medicinal value. The two major threats that interfere with the large scale production of ginger are the salinity and drought stress. ZoCDPK1 (Zingiber officinale Calcium-dependent protein kinase 1) is a salinity and drought-inducible CDPK gene isolated from ginger and undergoes dynamic subcellular localization during stress conditions. ZoCDPK1, with signature features of a typical Ca2+ regulated kinase, also possesses a bipartite nuclear localization sequence (NLS) in its junction domain (JD). A striking feature in ZoCDPK1 is the rare occurrence of a coupling between the NLS in JD and consensus sequences in regulatory domain. Here, we further identified its nature of nuclear localization and its interaction partners. In the homology model generated for ZoCDPK1, the regulatory domain mimics the crystal structure of the regulatory domain in Arabidopsis CDPK1. Molecular docking simulation of importin (ZoIMPα), an important protein involved in nuclear translocation, into the NLS of ZoCDPK1 was well-visualized. Furthermore, the direct interaction of ZoCDPK1 and ZoIMPα proteins was studied by the yeast 2-hybrid (Y2H) system, which confirmed that junction domain (JD) is an important interaction module required for ZoCDPK1 and ZoIMPα binding. The probable interacting partners of ZoCDPK1 were also identified using Y2H experiment. Of the 10 different stress-related interacting partners identified for ZoCDPK1, NAC transcription factor (TF) needs special mention, especially in the context of ZoCDPK1 function. The interaction between ZoCDPK1 and NAC TF, in fact, corroborate with the results of gene expression and over-expression studies of ZoCDPK1. Hence ZoCDPK1 is operating through NAC TF mediated ABA-independent, cold non-responsive stress signaling pathway in ginger.
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- Rajiv Gandhi Centre for BiotechnologyThiruvananthapuram, India
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- Rajiv Gandhi Centre for BiotechnologyThiruvananthapuram, India
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- Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity UniversityNoida, India
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- Rajiv Gandhi Centre for BiotechnologyThiruvananthapuram, India
- *Correspondence: Eppurathu Vasudevan Soniya
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Ding Q, Chen G, Wang Y, Wei D. Identification of Specific Variations in a Non-Motile Strain of Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Originated from ATCC 27184 by Whole Genome Resequencing. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:24081-93. [PMID: 26473841 PMCID: PMC4632739 DOI: 10.3390/ijms161024081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2015] [Revised: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is a widely used model organism in basic research and biofuel biotechnology application. Here, we report the genomic sequence of chromosome and seven plasmids of a glucose-tolerant, non-motile strain originated from ATCC 27184, GT-G, in use at Guangzhou. Through high-throughput genome re-sequencing and verification by Sanger sequencing, eight novel variants were identified in its chromosome and plasmids. The eight novel variants, especially the five non-silent mutations might have interesting effects on the phenotype of GT-G strains, for example the truncated Sll1895 and Slr0322 protein. These resequencing data provide background information for further research and application based on the GT-G strain and also provide evidence to study the evolution and divergence of Synechocystis 6803 globally.
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- Qinglong Ding
- College of Light Industry and Food Sciences, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, 510641 Guangzhou, China.
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- College of Light Industry and Food Sciences, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, 510641 Guangzhou, China.
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- College of Light Industry and Food Sciences, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, 510641 Guangzhou, China.
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- College of Light Industry and Food Sciences, South China University of Technology, 381 Wushan Road, 510641 Guangzhou, China.
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Chen Z, Zhan J, Chen Y, Yang M, He C, Ge F, Wang Q. Effects of Phosphorylation of β Subunits of Phycocyanins on State Transition in the Model Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 56:1997-2013. [PMID: 26315596 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (hereafter Synechocystis) is a model cyanobacterium and has been used extensively for studies concerned with photosynthesis and environmental adaptation. Although dozens of protein kinases and phosphatases with specificity for Ser/Thr/Tyr residues have been predicted, only a few substrate proteins are known in Synechocystis. In this study, we report 194 in vivo phosphorylation sites from 149 proteins in Synechocystis, which were identified using a combination of peptide pre-fractionation, TiO(2) enrichment and liquid chromatograpy-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis. These phosphorylated proteins are implicated in diverse biological processes, such as photosynthesis. Among all identified phosphoproteins involved in photosynthesis, the β subunits of phycocyanins (CpcBs) were found to be phosphorylated on Ser22, Ser49, Thr94 and Ser154. Four non-phosphorylated mutants were constructed by using site-directed mutagenesis. The in vivo characterization of the cpcB mutants showed a slower growth under high light irradiance and displayed fluorescence quenching to a lower level and less efficient energy transfer inside the phycobilisome (PBS). Notably, the non-phosphorylated mutants exhibited a slower state transition than the wild type. The current results demonstrated that the phosphorylation status of CpcBs affects the energy transfer and state transition of photosynthesis in Synechocystis. This study provides novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of protein phosphorylation in the regulation of photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and may facilitate the elucidation of the entire regulatory network by linking kinases to their physiological substrates.
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- Zhuo Chen
- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China These authors contributed equally to this work.
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China These authors contributed equally to this work.
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Algal Biology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
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Schuergers N, Wilde A. Appendages of the cyanobacterial cell. Life (Basel) 2015; 5:700-15. [PMID: 25749611 PMCID: PMC4390875 DOI: 10.3390/life5010700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Extracellular non-flagellar appendages, called pili or fimbriae, are widespread in gram-negative bacteria. They are involved in many different functions, including motility, adhesion, biofilm formation, and uptake of DNA. Sequencing data for a large number of cyanobacterial genomes revealed that most of them contain genes for pili synthesis. However, only for a very few cyanobacteria structure and function of these appendages have been analyzed. Here, we review the structure and function of type IV pili in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and analyze the distribution of type IV pili associated genes in other cyanobacteria. Further, we discuss the role of the RNA-chaperone Hfq in pilus function and the presence of genes for the chaperone-usher pathway of pilus assembly in cyanobacteria.
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- Nils Schuergers
- University of Freiburg, Institute of Biology III, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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- University of Freiburg, Institute of Biology III, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Linhartová M, Bučinská L, Halada P, Ječmen T, Setlík J, Komenda J, Sobotka R. Accumulation of the Type IV prepilin triggers degradation of SecY and YidC and inhibits synthesis of Photosystem II proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. Mol Microbiol 2014; 93:1207-23. [PMID: 25060824 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Type IV pilins are bacterial proteins that are small in size but have a broad range of functions, including motility, transformation competence and secretion. Although pilins vary in sequence, they possess a characteristic signal peptide that has to be removed by the prepilin peptidase PilD during pilin maturation. We generated a pilD (slr1120) null mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 that accumulates an unprocessed form of the major pilin PilA1 (pPilA1) and its non-glycosylated derivative (NpPilA1). Notably, the pilD strain had aberrant membrane ultrastructure and did not grow photoautotrophically because the synthesis of Photosystem II subunits was abolished. However, other membrane components such as Photosystem I and ATP synthase were synthesized at levels comparable to the control strain. Proliferation of the pilD strain was rescued by elimination of the pilA1 gene, demonstrating that PilA1 prepilin inhibited the synthesis of Photosystem II. Furthermore, NpPilA1 co-immunoprecipitated with the SecY translocase and the YidC insertase, and both of these essential translocon components were degraded in the mutant. We propose that unprocessed prepilins inactivate an identical pool of translocons that function in the synthesis of both pilins and the core subunits of Photosystem II.
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- Markéta Linhartová
- Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences, Opatovický mlýn, 37981, Třeboň, Czech Republic; Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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Zorina AA, Bedbenov VS, Novikova GV, Panichkin VB, Los’ DA. Involvement of serine/threonine protein kinases in the cold stress response in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: Functional characterization of SpkE protein kinase. Mol Biol 2014. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893314030212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mikkat S, Fulda S, Hagemann M. A 2D gel electrophoresis-based snapshot of the phosphoproteome in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2013; 160:296-306. [PMID: 24275102 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.074443-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophic prokaryotes that occur in highly variable environments. Protein phosphorylation is one of the most widespread means to adjust cell metabolism and gene expression to the demands of changing growth conditions. Using a 2D gel electrophoresis-based approach and a phosphoprotein-specific dye, we investigated the protein phosphorylation pattern in cells of the model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. The comparison of gels stained for total and phosphorylated proteins revealed that approximately 5 % of the protein spots seemed to be phosphoproteins, from which 32 were identified using MALDI-TOF MS. For eight of them the phosphorylated amino acid residues were mapped by subsequent mass spectrometric investigations of isolated phosphopeptides. Among the phosphoproteins, we found regulatory proteins, mostly putative anti-sigma factor antagonists, and proteins involved in translation. Moreover, a number of enzymes catalysing steps in glycolysis or the Calvin-Benson cycle were found to be phosphorylated, implying that protein phosphorylation might represent an important mechanism for the regulation of the primary carbon metabolism in cyanobacterial cells.
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- Stefan Mikkat
- Core Facility Proteomanalytik, Universitätsmedizin, Universität Rostock, Schillingallee 69, 18057 Rostock, Germany
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- Zellphysiologie, Institut Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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- Pflanzenphysiologie, Institut Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18051 Rostock, Germany
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Liu Z, Li H, Wei Y, Chu W, Chong Y, Long X, Liu Z, Qin S, Shao H. Signal transduction pathways inSynechocystissp. PCC 6803 and biotechnological implications under abiotic stress. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2013; 35:269-80. [DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2013.838662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Trautmann D, Voß B, Wilde A, Al-Babili S, Hess WR. Microevolution in cyanobacteria: re-sequencing a motile substrain of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res 2012; 19:435-48. [PMID: 23069868 PMCID: PMC3514855 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dss024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2012] [Accepted: 09/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is a widely used model cyanobacterium for studying photosynthesis, phototaxis, the production of biofuels and many other aspects. Here we present a re-sequencing study of the genome and seven plasmids of one of the most widely used Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 substrains, the glucose tolerant and motile Moscow or 'PCC-M' strain, revealing considerable evidence for recent microevolution. Seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) specifically shared between 'PCC-M' and the 'PCC-N and PCC-P' substrains indicate that 'PCC-M' belongs to the 'PCC' group of motile strains. The identified indels and SNPs in 'PCC-M' are likely to affect glucose tolerance, motility, phage resistance, certain stress responses as well as functions in the primary metabolism, potentially relevant for the synthesis of alkanes. Three SNPs in intergenic regions could affect the promoter activities of two protein-coding genes and one cis-antisense RNA. Two deletions in 'PCC-M' affect parts of clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats-associated spacer-repeat regions on plasmid pSYSA, in one case by an unusual recombination between spacer sequences.
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestr. 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Liu J, Chen L, Wang J, Qiao J, Zhang W. Proteomic analysis reveals resistance mechanism against biofuel hexane in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2012; 5:68. [PMID: 22958739 PMCID: PMC3479031 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-5-68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2012] [Accepted: 08/30/2012] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Recent studies have demonstrated that photosynthetic cyanobacteria could be an excellent cell factory to produce renewable biofuels and chemicals due to their capability to utilize solar energy and CO2 as the sole energy and carbon sources. Biosynthesis of carbon-neutral biofuel alkanes with good chemical and physical properties has been proposed. However, to make the process economically feasible, one major hurdle to improve the low cell tolerance to alkanes needed to be overcome. RESULTS Towards the goal to develop robust and high-alkane-tolerant hosts, in this study, the responses of model cyanobacterial Synechocystis PCC 6803 to hexane, a representative of alkane, were investigated using a quantitative proteomics approach with iTRAQ - LC-MS/MS technologies. In total, 1,492 unique proteins were identified, representing about 42% of all predicted protein in the Synechocystis genome. Among all proteins identified, a total of 164 and 77 proteins were found up- and down-regulated, respectively. Functional annotation and KEGG pathway enrichment analyses showed that common stress responses were induced by hexane in Synechocystis. Notably, a large number of transporters and membrane-bound proteins, proteins against oxidative stress and proteins related to sulfur relay system and photosynthesis were induced, suggesting that they are possibly the major protection mechanisms against hexane toxicity. CONCLUSION The study provided the first comprehensive view of the complicated molecular mechanism employed by cyanobacterial model species, Synechocystis to defend against hexane stress. The study also provided a list of potential targets to engineer Synechocystis against hexane stress.
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- Jie Liu
- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
- Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
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Mata-Cabana A, García-Domínguez M, Florencio FJ, Lindahl M. Thiol-based redox modulation of a cyanobacterial eukaryotic-type serine/threonine kinase required for oxidative stress tolerance. Antioxid Redox Signal 2012; 17:521-33. [PMID: 22530622 PMCID: PMC3373224 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2011.4483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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AIMS Protein phosphorylation is a principal signaling mechanism that mediates regulation of enzymatic activities, modulation of gene expression, and adaptation to environmental changes. Recent studies have shown a ubiquitous distribution of eukaryotic-type Serine/Threonine protein kinases in prokaryotic genomes, though the functions, substrates, and possible regulation of these enzymes remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated whether cyanobacterial protein phosphorylation may be subject to redox regulation through modulation of the cysteine redox state, as has previously been reported for animals and plants. We also explored the role of a cyanobacterial Serine/Threonine kinase in oxidative stress tolerance. RESULTS The Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Serine/Threonine kinase SpkB was found to be inhibited by oxidation and reactivated by thioredoxin-catalyzed reduction. A Synechocystis mutant devoid of the SpkB kinase was unable to phosphorylate the glycyl-tRNA synthetase β-subunit (GlyS), one of the most prominent phosphoproteins in the wild type, and recombinant purified SpkB could phosphorylate purified GlyS. In vivo characterization of the SpkB mutant showed a pronounced hypersensitivity to oxidative stress and displayed severe growth retardation or death in response to menadione, methyl viologen, and elevated light intensities. INNOVATION This study points out a previously unrecognised complexity of prokaryotic regulatory pathways in adaptation to the environment and extends the roles of bacterial eukaryotic-like Serine/Threonine kinases to oxidative stress response. CONCLUSION The SpkB kinase is required for survival of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 under conditions implying increased concentrations of reactive oxygen species, and the activity of SpkB depends on the redox state of its cysteines.
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- Alejandro Mata-Cabana
- The Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis, The Spanish Research Council-University of Seville, IBVF(CSIC/US), Isla de la Cartuja Scientific Research Center (CicCartuja), Seville, Spain
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Eisenhut M, Georg J, Klähn S, Sakurai I, Mustila H, Zhang P, Hess WR, Aro EM. The antisense RNA As1_flv4 in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 prevents premature expression of the flv4-2 operon upon shift in inorganic carbon supply. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:33153-62. [PMID: 22854963 PMCID: PMC3460422 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.391755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The functional relevance of natural cis-antisense transcripts is mostly unknown. Here we have characterized the association of three antisense RNAs and one intergenically encoded noncoding RNA with an operon that plays a crucial role in photoprotection of photosystem II under low carbon conditions in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Cyanobacteria show strong gene expression dynamics in response to a shift of cells from high carbon to low levels of inorganic carbon (Ci), but the regulatory mechanisms are poorly understood. Among the most up-regulated genes in Synechocystis are flv4, sll0218, and flv2, which are organized in the flv4-2 operon. The flavodiiron proteins encoded by this operon open up an alternative electron transfer route, likely starting from the QB site in photosystem II, under photooxidative stress conditions. Our expression analysis of cells shifted from high carbon to low carbon demonstrated an inversely correlated transcript accumulation of the flv4-2 operon mRNA and one antisense RNA to flv4, designated as As1_flv4. Overexpression of As1_flv4 led to a decrease in flv4-2 mRNA. The promoter activity of as1_flv4 was transiently stimulated by Ci limitation and negatively regulated by the AbrB-like transcription regulator Sll0822, whereas the flv4-2 operon was positively regulated by the transcription factor NdhR. The results indicate that the tightly regulated antisense RNA As1_flv4 establishes a transient threshold for flv4-2 expression in the early phase after a change in Ci conditions. Thus, it prevents unfavorable synthesis of the proteins from the flv4-2 operon.
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- Marion Eisenhut
- Department of Biochemistry and Food Science, Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Turku, Turku FI-20014, Finland
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Das S, Roymondal U, Chottopadhyay B, Sahoo S. Gene expression profile of the cynobacterium synechocystis genome. Gene 2012; 497:344-52. [PMID: 22310391 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2011] [Accepted: 01/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The expression of functional proteins plays a crucial role in modern biotechnology. The free-living cynobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 is an interesting model organism to study oxygenic photosynthesis as well as other metabolic processes. Here we analyze a gene expression profiling methodology, RCBS (the scores of relative codon usage bias) to elucidate expression patterns of genes in the Synechocystis genome. To assess the predictive performance of the methodology, we propose a simple algorithm to calculate the threshold score to identify the highly expressed genes in a genome. Analysis of differential expression of the genes of this genome reveals that most of the genes in photosynthesis and respiration belong to the highly expressed category. The other genes with the higher predicted expression level include ribosomal proteins, translation processing factors and many hypothetical proteins. Only 9.5% genes are identified as highly expressed genes and we observe that highly expressed genes in Synechocystis genome often have strong compositional bias in terms of codon usage. An important application concerns the automatic detection of a set of impact codons and genes that are highly expressed tend to use this narrow set of preferred codons and display high codon bias .We further observe a strong correlation between RCBS and protein length indicating natural selection in favor of shorter genes to be expressed at higher level. The better correlations of RCBS with 2D electrophoresis and microarray data for heat shock proteins compared to the expression measure based on codon usage difference, E(g) and codon adaptive index, CAI indicate that the genomic expression profile available in our method can be applied in a meaningful way to study the mRNA expression patterns, which are by themselves necessary for the quantitative description of the biological states.
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- Shibsankar Das
- Department of Mathematics, Uluberia College, Uluberia, Howrah, India.
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Kanesaki Y, Shiwa Y, Tajima N, Suzuki M, Watanabe S, Sato N, Ikeuchi M, Yoshikawa H. Identification of substrain-specific mutations by massively parallel whole-genome resequencing of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. DNA Res 2011; 19:67-79. [PMID: 22193367 PMCID: PMC3276265 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsr042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The cyanobacterium, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, was the first photosynthetic organism whose genome sequence was determined in 1996 (Kazusa strain). It thus plays an important role in basic research on the mechanism, evolution, and molecular genetics of the photosynthetic machinery. There are many substrains or laboratory strains derived from the original Berkeley strain including glucose-tolerant (GT) strains. To establish reliable genomic sequence data of this cyanobacterium, we performed resequencing of the genomes of three substrains (GT-I, PCC-P, and PCC-N) and compared the data obtained with those of the original Kazusa strain stored in the public database. We found that each substrain has sequence differences some of which are likely to reflect specific mutations that may contribute to its altered phenotype. Our resequence data of the PCC substrains along with the proposed corrections/refinements of the sequence data for the Kazusa strain and its derivatives are expected to contribute to investigations of the evolutionary events in the photosynthetic and related systems that have occurred in Synechocystis as well as in other cyanobacteria.
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- Yu Kanesaki
- Genome Research Center, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan
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Griese M, Lange C, Soppa J. Ploidy in cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2011; 323:124-31. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02368.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2011] [Revised: 07/21/2011] [Accepted: 07/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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- Marco Griese
- Institute for Molecular Biosciences; Biocentre; Goethe-University; Frankfurt; Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences; Biocentre; Goethe-University; Frankfurt; Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences; Biocentre; Goethe-University; Frankfurt; Germany
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Liang C, Zhang X, Chi X, Guan X, Li Y, Qin S, Shao HB. Serine/threonine protein kinase SpkG is a candidate for high salt resistance in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. PLoS One 2011; 6:e18718. [PMID: 21637338 PMCID: PMC3102658 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2011] [Accepted: 03/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background Seven serine/threonine kinase genes have been predicted in unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. SpkA and SpkB were shown to be required for cell motility and SpkE has no kinase activity. There is no report whether the other four STKs are involved in stress-mediated signaling in Synechocystis PCC6803. Methodology/Principal Findings In this paper, we examined differential expression of the other four serine/threonine kinases, SpkC, SpkD, SpkF and SpkG, at seven different stress conditions. The transcriptional level was up-regulated of spkG and down-regulated of spkC under high salt stress condition. Two spk deletion mutants, ΔspkC and ΔspkG, were constructed and their growth characteristic were examined compared to the wild strain. The wild strain and ΔspkC mutant were not affected under high salt stress conditions. In contrast, growth of spkG mutant was completely impaired. To further confirm the function of spkG, we also examined the effect of mutation of spkG on the expression of salt stress-inducible genes. We compared genome-wide patterns of transcription between wild-type Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 and cells with a mutation in the SpkG with DNA microarray analysis. Conclusion In this study, we first study the spkG gene as sensor of high salt signal. We consider that SpkG play essential roles in Synechocystis sp. for sensing the high salt signal directly, rather than mediating signals among other kinases. Our microarray experiment may help select relatively significant genes for further research on mechanisms of signal transduction of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 under high salt stress.
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- Chengwei Liang
- Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, China
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Zorina A, Stepanchenko N, Novikova GV, Sinetova M, Panichkin VB, Moshkov IE, Zinchenko VV, Shestakov SV, Suzuki I, Murata N, Los DA. Eukaryotic-like Ser/Thr protein kinases SpkC/F/K are involved in phosphorylation of GroES in the Cyanobacterium synechocystis. DNA Res 2011; 18:137-51. [PMID: 21551175 PMCID: PMC3111230 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsr006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Serine/threonine protein kinases (STPKs) are the major participants in intracellular signal transduction in eukaryotes, such as yeasts, fungi, plants, and animals. Genome sequences indicate that these kinases are also present in prokaryotes, such as cyanobacteria. However, their roles in signal transduction in prokaryotes remain poorly understood. We have attempted to identify the roles of STPKs in response to heat stress in the prokaryotic cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, which has 12 genes for STPKs. Each gene was individually inactivated to generate a gene-knockout library of STPKs. We applied in vitro Ser/Thr protein phosphorylation and phosphoproteomics and identified the methionyl-tRNA synthetase, large subunit of RuBisCO, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, translation elongation factor Tu, heat-shock protein GrpE, and small chaperonin GroES as the putative targets for Ser/Thr phosphorylation. The expressed and purified GroES was used as an external substrate to screen the protein extracts of the individual mutants for their Ser/Thr kinase activities. The mutants that lack one of the three protein kinases, SpkC, SpkF, and SpkK, were unable to phosphorylate GroES in vitro, suggesting possible interactions between them towards their substrate. Complementation of the mutated SpkC, SpkF, and SpkK leads to the restoration of the ability of cells to phosphorylate the GroES. This suggests that these three STPKs are organized in a sequential order or a cascade and they work one after another to finally phosphorylate the GroES.
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- Anna Zorina
- Institute of Plant Physiology, Botanicheskaya Street 35, 127276 Moscow, Russia
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Tyagi N, Anamika K, Srinivasan N. A framework for classification of prokaryotic protein kinases. PLoS One 2010; 5:e10608. [PMID: 20520783 PMCID: PMC2877116 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2009] [Accepted: 04/13/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Overwhelming majority of the Serine/Threonine protein kinases identified by gleaning archaeal and eubacterial genomes could not be classified into any of the well known Hanks and Hunter subfamilies of protein kinases. This is owing to the development of Hanks and Hunter classification scheme based on eukaryotic protein kinases which are highly divergent from their prokaryotic homologues. A large dataset of prokaryotic Serine/Threonine protein kinases recognized from genomes of prokaryotes have been used to develop a classification framework for prokaryotic Ser/Thr protein kinases. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We have used traditional sequence alignment and phylogenetic approaches and clustered the prokaryotic kinases which represent 72 subfamilies with at least 4 members in each. Such a clustering enables classification of prokaryotic Ser/Thr kinases and it can be used as a framework to classify newly identified prokaryotic Ser/Thr kinases. After series of searches in a comprehensive sequence database we recognized that 38 subfamilies of prokaryotic protein kinases are associated to a specific taxonomic level. For example 4, 6 and 3 subfamilies have been identified that are currently specific to phylum proteobacteria, cyanobacteria and actinobacteria respectively. Similarly subfamilies which are specific to an order, sub-order, class, family and genus have also been identified. In addition to these, we also identify organism-diverse subfamilies. Members of these clusters are from organisms of different taxonomic levels, such as archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes and viruses. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE Interestingly, occurrence of several taxonomic level specific subfamilies of prokaryotic kinases contrasts with classification of eukaryotic protein kinases in which most of the popular subfamilies of eukaryotic protein kinases occur diversely in several eukaryotes. Many prokaryotic Ser/Thr kinases exhibit a wide variety of modular organization which indicates a degree of complexity and protein-protein interactions in the signaling pathways in these microbes.
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- Nidhi Tyagi
- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
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Los DA, Zorina A, Sinetova M, Kryazhov S, Mironov K, Zinchenko VV. Stress sensors and signal transducers in cyanobacteria. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2010; 10:2386-415. [PMID: 22294932 PMCID: PMC3264485 DOI: 10.3390/s100302386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Revised: 02/15/2010] [Accepted: 03/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In living cells, the perception of environmental stress and the subsequent transduction of stress signals are primary events in the acclimation to changes in the environment. Some molecular sensors and transducers of environmental stress cannot be identified by traditional and conventional methods. Based on genomic information, a systematic approach has been applied to the solution of this problem in cyanobacteria, involving mutagenesis of potential sensors and signal transducers in combination with DNA microarray analyses for the genome-wide expression of genes. Forty-five genes for the histidine kinases (Hiks), 12 genes for serine-threonine protein kinases (Spks), 42 genes for response regulators (Rres), seven genes for RNA polymerase sigma factors, and nearly 70 genes for transcription factors have been successfully inactivated by targeted mutagenesis in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Screening of mutant libraries by genome-wide DNA microarray analysis under various stress and non-stress conditions has allowed identification of proteins that perceive and transduce signals of environmental stress. Here we summarize recent progress in the identification of sensory and regulatory systems, including Hiks, Rres, Spks, sigma factors, transcription factors, and the role of genomic DNA supercoiling in the regulation of the responses of cyanobacterial cells to various types of stress.
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- Dmitry A. Los
- Laboratory of Intracellular Regulation, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (A.Z.); (M.S.); (K.M.)
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- Laboratory of Intracellular Regulation, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (A.Z.); (M.S.); (K.M.)
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- Laboratory of Intracellular Regulation, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (A.Z.); (M.S.); (K.M.)
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (S.K.); (V.V.Z.)
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- Laboratory of Intracellular Regulation, Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanicheskaya street 35, 127276, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (A.Z.); (M.S.); (K.M.)
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; E-Mails: (S.K.); (V.V.Z.)
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Dienst D, Dühring U, Mollenkopf HJ, Vogel J, Golecki J, Hess WR, Wilde A. The cyanobacterial homologue of the RNA chaperone Hfq is essential for motility of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2008; 154:3134-3143. [PMID: 18832319 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/020222-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The ssr3341 locus was previously suggested to encode an orthologue of the RNA chaperone Hfq in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Insertional inactivation of this gene resulted in a mutant that was not naturally transformable and exhibited a non-phototactic phenotype compared with the wild-type. The loss of motility was complemented by reintroduction of the wild-type gene, correlated with the re-establishment of type IV pili on the cell surface. Microarray analyses revealed a small set of genes with drastically reduced transcript levels in the knockout mutant compared with the wild-type cells. Among the most strongly affected genes, slr1667, slr1668, slr2015, slr2016 and slr2018 stood out, as they belong to two operons that had previously been shown to be involved in motility, controlled by the cAMP receptor protein SYCRP1. This suggests a link between cAMP signalling, motility and possibly the involvement of RNA-based regulation. This is believed to be the first report demonstrating a functional role of an Hfq orthologue in cyanobacteria, establishing a new factor in the control of motility.
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- Dennis Dienst
- Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology, Schänzlestr. 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392 Giessen, Germany.,Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Biology, Chausseestr. 117, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Laurent S, Jang J, Janicki A, Zhang CC, Bédu S. Inactivation of spkD, encoding a Ser/Thr kinase, affects the pool of the TCA cycle metabolites in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2008; 154:2161-2167. [PMID: 18599843 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/016196-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The inactivation of sll0776 (spkD), a gene encoding a protein Ser/Thr kinase in Synechocystis PCC 6803, led to a pleiotropic phenotype of the SpkD null mutant. This mutant is impaired in its growth ability under low concentration of inorganic carbon (C(i)), though its C(i)-uptake system is not affected. Addition of glucose, phosphoglyceraldehyde or pyruvate does not allow the mutant to grow under low-C(i) conditions. In contrast, this growth defect can be restored when the low-C(i) culture medium is supplemented with metabolites of the TCA cycle. Growth of the mutant is also inhibited when ammonium is provided as nitrogen source, whatever the carbon regime of the cells, due to the high demand for 2-oxoglutarate, which is the carbon skeleton for ammonium assimilation. When mutant cells are cultured under standard growth conditions, the intracellular concentration of 2-oxoglutarate is 20 % lower than is observed in the wild-type strain. However, this decrease of 2-oxoglutarate level only slightly affects the phosphorylation state of PII, a protein that regulates nitrogen and carbon metabolism according to the intracellular levels of 2-oxoglutarate. Properties of the SpkD mutant suggest that the Ser/Thr kinase SpkD could be involved in adjusting the pool of the TCA cycle metabolites according to C(i) supply in the culture medium.
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- Sophie Laurent
- CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UPR9043), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UPR9043), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UPR9043), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UPR9043), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
- Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
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- CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne (UPR9043), Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, 13402 Marseille cedex 20, France
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Zhang X, Zhao F, Guan X, Yang Y, Liang C, Qin S. Genome-wide survey of putative serine/threonine protein kinases in cyanobacteria. BMC Genomics 2007; 8:395. [PMID: 17971218 PMCID: PMC2176072 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2007] [Accepted: 10/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Serine/threonine kinases (STKs) have been found in an increasing number of prokaryotes, showing important roles in signal transduction that supplement the well known role of two-component system. Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophic prokaryotes able to grow in a wide range of ecological environments, and their signal transduction systems are important in adaptation to the environment. Sequence information from several cyanobacterial genomes offers a unique opportunity to conduct a comprehensive comparative analysis of this kinase family. In this study, we extracted information regarding Ser/Thr kinases from 21 species of sequenced cyanobacteria and investigated their diversity, conservation, domain structure, and evolution. Results 286 putative STK homologues were identified. STKs are absent in four Prochlorococcus strains and one marine Synechococcus strain and abundant in filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. Motifs and invariant amino acids typical in eukaryotic STKs were conserved well in these proteins, and six more cyanobacteria- or bacteria-specific conserved residues were found. These STK proteins were classified into three major families according to their domain structures. Fourteen types and a total of 131 additional domains were identified, some of which are reported to participate in the recognition of signals or substrates. Cyanobacterial STKs show rather complicated phylogenetic relationships that correspond poorly with phylogenies based on 16S rRNA and those based on additional domains. Conclusion The number of STK genes in different cyanobacteria is the result of the genome size, ecophysiology, and physiological properties of the organism. Similar conserved motifs and amino acids indicate that cyanobacterial STKs make use of a similar catalytic mechanism as eukaryotic STKs. Gene gain-and-loss is significant during STK evolution, along with domain shuffling and insertion. This study has established an overall framework of sequence-structure-function interactions for the STK gene family, which may facilitate further studies of the role of STKs in various organisms.
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- Xiaowen Zhang
- Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanhai Road, Qingdao, China.
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Panichkin VB, Arakawa-Kobayashi S, Kanaseki T, Suzuki I, Los DA, Shestakov SV, Murata N. Serine/threonine protein kinase SpkA in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is a regulator of expression of three putative pilA operons, formation of thick pili, and cell motility. J Bacteriol 2006; 188:7696-9. [PMID: 16916897 PMCID: PMC1636250 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00838-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies showed that a Ser/Thr protein kinase, SpkA, in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is involved in cell motility. The present study, in which DNA microarray analysis and electron microscopy were used, demonstrated that SpkA regulates the expression of putative pilA9-pilA10-pilA11-slr2018, pilA5-pilA6, and pilA1-pilA2 operons and is essential for the formation of thick pili.
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Zhang CC, Jang J, Sakr S, Wang L. Protein phosphorylation on Ser, Thr and Tyr residues in cyanobacteria. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 9:154-66. [PMID: 16415589 DOI: 10.1159/000089644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Cyanobacteria belong to an extremely diverse group of gram-negative prokaryotes. They are all able to perform oxygen-evolving photosynthesis, but differ in morphology, ecological habitats, and physiology. This diversity is also reflected in the complexity of regulatory proteins involved in protein phosphorylation on Ser, Thr and Tyr residues. For those strains whose genomes are completely sequenced, for example, the number of genes identified so far that encode Ser/Thr and Tyr kinases range from none to 52. Genetic, molecular as well as functional genomic analyses demonstrate that Ser/Thr and Tyr kinases and phosphatases are involved in the regulation of a variety of activities according to changes in growth conditions or cell metabolism, such as cell motility, carbon and nitrogen metabolism, photosynthesis and stress response. The major challenge in the near future is to integrate these components into signaling pathways and identify their targets. Some of the Ser/Thr and Tyr kinases and phosphatases are expected to interact with classical two-component signaling pathways.
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- Cheng-Cai Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
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Li R, Potters MB, Shi L, Kennelly PJ. The protein phosphatases of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803: open reading frames sll1033 and sll1387 encode enzymes that exhibit both protein-serine and protein-tyrosine phosphatase activity in vitro. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:5877-84. [PMID: 16109928 PMCID: PMC1196173 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.17.5877-5884.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The open reading frames (ORFs) encoding two potential protein-serine/threonine phosphatases from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 were cloned and their protein products expressed in Escherichia coli cells. The product of ORF sll1033, SynPPM3, is a homologue of the PPM family of protein-serine/threonine phosphatases found in all eukaryotes as well as many members of the Bacteria. Surprisingly, the recombinant protein phosphatase dephosphorylated phosphotyrosine- as well as phosphoserine-containing proteins in vitro. While kinetic analyses indicate that the enzyme was more efficient at dephosphorylating the latter, replacement of Asp608 by asparagine enhanced activity toward a phosphotyrosine-containing protein fourfold. The product of ORF sll1387, SynPPP1, is the sole homolog of the PPP family of protein phosphatases encoded by the genome of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Like many other bacterial PPPs, the enzyme dephosphorylated phosphoserine- and phosphotyrosine-containing proteins with comparable efficiencies. However, while previously described PPPs from prokaryotic organisms required the addition of exogenous metal ion cofactors, such as Mg2+ or Mn2+, for activity, recombinantly produced SynPPP1 displayed near-maximal activity in the absence of added metals. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry indicated that recombinant SynPPP1 contained significant quantities, 0.32 to 0.44 mol/mole total, of Mg and Mn. In this respect, the cyanobacterial enzyme resembled eukaryotic members of the PPP family, which are metalloproteins. mRNA encoding SynPPP1 or SynPPM3 could be detected in cells grown under many, but not all, environmental conditions.
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- Renhui Li
- Department of Biochemistry-0308, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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Krupa A, Srinivasan N. Diversity in domain architectures of Ser/Thr kinases and their homologues in prokaryotes. BMC Genomics 2005; 6:129. [PMID: 16171520 PMCID: PMC1262709 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2004] [Accepted: 09/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Ser/Thr/Tyr kinases (STYKs) commonly found in eukaryotes have been recently reported in many bacterial species. Recent studies elucidating their cellular functions have established their roles in bacterial growth and development. However functions of a large number of bacterial STYKs still remain elusive. The organisation of domains in a large dataset of bacterial STYKs has been investigated here in order to recognise variety in domain combinations which determine functions of bacterial STYKs. Results Using sensitive sequence and profile search methods, domain organisation of over 600 STYKs from 125 prokaryotic genomes have been examined. Kinase catalytic domains of STYKs tethered to a wide range of enzymatic domains such as phosphatases, HSP70, peptidyl prolyl isomerases, pectin esterases and glycoproteases have been identified. Such distinct preferences for domain combinations are not known to be present in either the Histidine kinase or the eukaryotic STYK families. Domain organisation of STYKs specific to certain groups of bacteria has also been noted in the current anlaysis. For example, Hydrophobin like domains in Mycobacterial STYK and penicillin binding domains in few STYKs of Gram-positive organisms and FHA domains in cyanobacterial STYKs. Homologues of characterised substrates of prokaryotic STYKs have also been identified. Conclusion The domains and domain architectures of most of the bacterial STYKs identified are very different from the known domain organisation in STYKs of eukaryotes. This observation highlights distinct biological roles of bacterial STYKs compared to eukaryotic STYKs. Bacterial STYKs reveal high diversity in domain organisation. Some of the modular organisations conserved across diverse bacterial species suggests their central role in bacterial physiology. Unique domain architectures of few other groups of STYKs reveal recruitment of functions specific to the species.
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- A Krupa
- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
- Cell Cycle Control Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research – UK, South Mimms, Hertfordshire, EN6 3LD UK
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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Okajima K, Yoshihara S, Fukushima Y, Geng X, Katayama M, Higashi S, Watanabe M, Sato S, Tabata S, Shibata Y, Itoh S, Ikeuchi M. Biochemical and functional characterization of BLUF-type flavin-binding proteins of two species of cyanobacteria. J Biochem 2005; 137:741-50. [PMID: 16002996 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvi089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BLUF (a sensor of Blue-Light Using FAD) is a novel putative photoreceptor domain that is found in many bacteria and some eukaryotic algae. As found on genome analysis, certain cyanobacteria have BLUF proteins with a short C-terminal extension. As typical examples, Tll0078 from thermophilic Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 and Slr1694 from mesophilic Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 were comparatively studied. FAD of both proteins was hardly reduced by exogenous reductants or mediators except methylviologen but showed a typical spectral shift to a longer wavelength upon excitation with blue light. In particular, freshly prepared Tll0078 protein showed slow but reversible aggregation, indicative of light-induced conformational changes in the protein structure. Tll0078 is far more stable as to heat treatment than Slr1694, as judged from flavin fluorescence. The slr1694-disruptant showed phototactic motility away from the light source (negative phototaxis), while the wild type Synechocystis showed positive phototaxis toward the source. Yeast two-hybrid screening with slr1694 showed self-interaction of Slr1694 (PixD) with itself and interaction with a novel PatA-like response regulator, Slr1693 (PixE). These results were discussed in relation to the signaling mechanism of the "short" BLUF proteins in the regulation of cyanobacterial phototaxis.
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- Koji Okajima
- Department of Life Sciences (Biology), The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Many photosynthetic microorganisms have evolved the ability to sense light quality and/or quantity and can steer themselves into optimal conditions within the environment. Phototaxis and gliding motility in unicellular cyanobacteria require type IV pili, which are multifunctional cell surface appendages. Screens for cells exhibiting aberrant motility uncovered several non-motile mutants as well as some that had lost positive phototaxis (consequently, they were negatively phototactic). Several negatively phototactic mutants mapped to the tax1 locus, which contains five chemotaxis-like genes. This locus includes a gene that encodes a putative photoreceptor (TaxD1) for positive phototaxis. A second chemotaxis-like cluster (tax3 locus) appears to be involved in pilus biogenesis. The biosynthesis and regulation of type IV pilus-based motility as well as the communication between the pilus motor and photosensory molecules appear to be complex and tightly regulated. Furthermore, the discovery that cyclic AMP and novel gene products are necessary for phototaxis/motility suggests that there might be additional levels of communication and signal processing.
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- Devaki Bhaya
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Kim YH, Park YM, Kim SJ, Park YI, Choi JS, Chung YH. The role of Slr1443 in pilus biogenesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: involvement in post-translational modification of pilins. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 315:179-86. [PMID: 15013443 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.01.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We isolated a transposon-induced nonmotile mutant of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. The mutant was revealed to have a Tn5 insertion in the slr1443 gene that showed sequence similarity to a eukaryotic-type protein kinase. Thick pili were not observed on the mutant cell surface under the electron microscope. The slr1443 gene was not involved in transcription or translation of the pilA1 gene encoding pilin, the major component of thick pili. In the mutant, lower molecular mass pilin peptides were detected than in the wild-type. The pilin variant was not truncated at the N- or C-terminus of mature PilA1. The reduced molecular mass may have resulted from insufficient post-translational modification. The amounts of pilin variants were remarkably reduced in the periplasmic and surface fractions. The pilin variants were released into liquid media without being assembled into pili. Our finding suggests that Slr1443 plays an important role in pilus biogenesis at the level of the post-translational modification of pilin.
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- Young Hye Kim
- Proteome Analysis Team, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
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Mutsuda M, Michel KP, Zhang X, Montgomery BL, Golden SS. Biochemical properties of CikA, an unusual phytochrome-like histidine protein kinase that resets the circadian clock in Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:19102-10. [PMID: 12626498 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m213255200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We recently described the cikA (circadian input kinase A) gene, whose product supplies environmental information to the circadian oscillator in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942. CikA possesses three distinct domains: a GAF, a histidine protein kinase (HPK), and a receiver domain similar to those of the response regulator family. To determine how CikA functions in providing circadian input, we constructed modified alleles to tag and truncate the protein, allowing analysis of each domain individually. CikA covalently bound bilin chromophores in vitro, even though it lacks the expected ligand residues, and the GAF domain influenced but did not entirely account for this function. Full-length CikA and truncated variants that carry the HPK domain showed autophosphorylation activity. Deletion of the GAF domain or the N-terminal region adjacent to GAF dramatically reduced autophosphorylation, whereas elimination of the receiver domain increased activity 10-fold. Assays to test phosphorelay from the HPK to the cryptic receiver domain, which lacks the conserved aspartyl residue that serves as a phosphoryl acceptor in response regulators, were negative. We propose that the cryptic receiver is a regulatory domain that interacts with an unknown protein partner to modulate the autokinase activity of CikA but does not work as bona fide receiver domain in a phosphorelay.
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- Michinori Mutsuda
- Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3258, USA
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Rajagopal L, Clancy A, Rubens CE. A eukaryotic type serine/threonine kinase and phosphatase in Streptococcus agalactiae reversibly phosphorylate an inorganic pyrophosphatase and affect growth, cell segregation, and virulence. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:14429-41. [PMID: 12562757 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212747200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Protein phosphorylation is essential for the regulation of cell growth, division, and differentiation in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Signal transduction in prokaryotes was previously thought to occur primarily by histidine kinases, involved in two-component signaling pathways. Lately, bacterial homologues of eukaryotic-type serine/threonine kinases and phosphatases have been found to be necessary for cellular functions such as growth, differentiation, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolism. The Gram-positive bacteria Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococci, GBS) is an important human pathogen. We have identified and characterized a eukaryotic-type serine/threonine protein kinase (Stk1) and its cognate phosphatase (Stp1) in GBS. Biochemical assays revealed that Stk1 has kinase activity and localizes to the membrane and that Stp1 is a soluble protein with manganese-dependent phosphatase activity on Stk1. Mutations in these genes exhibited pleiotropic effects on growth, virulence, and cell segregation of GBS. Complementation of these mutations restored the wild type phenotype linking these genes to the regulation of various cellular processes in GBS. In vitro phosphorylation of cell extracts from wild type and mutant strains revealed that Stk1 is essential for phosphorylation of six GBS proteins. We have identified the predominant endogenous substrate of both Stk1 and Stp1 as a manganese-dependent inorganic pyrophosphatase (PpaC) by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry. These results suggest that these eukaryotic-type enzymes regulate pyrophosphatase activity and other cellular functions of S. agalactiae.
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- Lakshmi Rajagopal
- Division of Infectious Disease, Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98105, USA
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