Regulatory Functions of Serine-46-Phosphorylated HPr in Lactococcus lactis
AUTOR(ES)
Monedero, Vicente
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
In most low-G+C gram-positive bacteria, the phosphoryl carrier protein HPr of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) becomes phosphorylated at Ser-46. This ATP-dependent reaction is catalyzed by the bifunctional HPr kinase/P-Ser-HPr phosphatase. We found that serine-phosphorylated HPr (P-Ser-HPr) of Lactococcus lactis participates not only in carbon catabolite repression of an operon encoding a β-glucoside-specific EII and a 6-P-β-glucosidase but also in inducer exclusion of the non-PTS carbohydrates maltose and ribose. In a wild-type strain, transport of these non-PTS carbohydrates is strongly inhibited by the presence of glucose, whereas in a ptsH1 mutant, in which Ser-46 of HPr is replaced with an alanine, glucose had lost its inhibitory effect. In vitro experiments carried out with L. lactis vesicles had suggested that P-Ser-HPr is also implicated in inducer expulsion of nonmetabolizable homologues of PTS sugars, such as methyl β-d-thiogalactoside (TMG) and 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG). In vivo experiments with the ptsH1 mutant established that P-Ser-HPr is not necessary for inducer expulsion. Glucose-activated 2-DG expulsion occurred at similar rates in wild-type and ptsH1 mutant strains, whereas TMG expulsion was slowed in the ptsH1 mutant. It therefore seems that P-Ser-HPr is not essential for inducer expulsion but that in certain cases it can play an indirect role in this regulatory process.
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