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Bacterial sensor kinase TodS interacts with agonistic and antagonistic signals

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dc.creator Busch, Andreas
dc.creator Lacal, Jesús
dc.creator Martos, Ariadna
dc.creator Ramos, Juan L.
dc.creator Krell, Tino
dc.date 2008-04-01T09:02:50Z
dc.date 2008-04-01T09:02:50Z
dc.date 2007-08-21
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:01:23Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:01:23Z
dc.identifier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 August 21; 104(34): 13774–13779
dc.identifier 1091-6490
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3398
dc.identifier 10.1073/pnas.0701547104
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3398
dc.description Copyright © by National Academy of Sciences. Final full-text version of the paper available at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/34/13774
dc.description The TodS/TodT two-component system controls expression of the toluene dioxygenase (TOD) pathway for the metabolism of toluene in Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E. TodS is a sensor kinase that ultimately controls tod gene expression through its cognate response regulator, TodT. We used isothermal titration calorimetry to study the binding of different compounds to TodS and related these findings to their capacity to induce gene expression in vivo. Agonistic compounds bound to TodS and induced gene expression in vivo. Toluene was a powerful agonist, but ortho-substitutions of toluene reduced or abolished in vivo responses, although TodS recognized o-xylene with high affinity. These compounds were called antagonists. We show that agonists and antagonists compete for binding to TodS both in vitro and in vivo. The failure of antagonists to induce gene expression in vivo correlated with their inability to stimulate TodS autophosphorylation in vitro. We propose intramolecular TodS signal transmission, not molecular recognition of compounds by TodS, to be the phenomenon that determines whether a given compound will lead to activation of expression of the tod genes. Molecular modeling identified residues F46, I74, F79, and I114 as being potentially involved in the binding of effector molecules. Alanine substitution mutants of these residues reduced affinities (2- to 345-fold) for both agonistic and antagonistic compounds. Our data indicate that determining the inhibitory activity of antagonists is a potentially fruitful alternative to design specific two-component system inhibitors for the development of new drugs to inhibit processes regulated by two-component systems.
dc.description This work was supported by Ministry of Science and Education (Spain) Grant BIO-2006-05668, European Union Grant Sysmo GEN-2006- 27750-CS-5B, and Junta de Andalucía Grant CVI-344
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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dc.subject Histidine kinases
dc.subject Isothermal titration calorimetry
dc.subject Pseudomonas
dc.subject Two-component systems
dc.subject Aromatic hydrocarbons
dc.title Bacterial sensor kinase TodS interacts with agonistic and antagonistic signals
dc.type Artículo


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