Transmembrane signal transduction and osmoregulation in Escherichia coli: functional importance of the transmembrane regions of membrane-located protein kinase, EnvZ
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Transmembrane signal transduction and osmoregulation in Escherichia coli: functional importance of the transmembrane regions of membrane-located protein kinase, EnvZ
Abstract
EnvZ is a membrane-located protein kinase which modulates expression of the ompF and ompC genes through phosphotransfer signal transduction in Escherichia coli. Previously, we developed an in vitro method for analyzing the intact form of EnvZ in isolated cytoplasmic membranes, and demonstrated that this particular form of EnvZ exhibits the ability not only of OmpR phosphorylation but also OmpR dephosphorylation. Taking advantage of this in vitro system, in this study, to assess the structural and functional importance of the membrane-spanning (transmembrane) regions of EnvZ, a set of mutant envZ genes, each of which specifies a mutant EnvZ protein with a single amino acid replacement within or very near the transmembrane regions, were isolated and characterized in terms of their in vivo osmoregulatory phenotypes and in vitro EnvZ-OmpR phosphotransfer activities. On the basis of the results, it was suggested that the transmembrane regions of EnvZ play roles in transmembrane signaling and consequent modulation of the kinase/phosphatase activity exhibited by the cytoplasmic domain in response to an osmotic stimulus.
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