Helicobacter pylori glutamine synthetase lacks features associated with transcriptional and posttranslational regulation

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1839-1847

  Garner, Rachel M ^a   Fulkerson Jr , John ^a   Mobley, Harry L T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; KANAMYCIN; TYROSINE; UREA;

ADENYLATION; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0031900966     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.5.1839-1847.1998     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Ahnn, J., P. E. March, H. E. Takiff, and M. Inouye. 1986. A GTP-binding protein of Escherichia coli has homology to yeast RAS proteins. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:8849-8853.
2. Ausubel, F. M., R. Brent, R. E. Kingston, D. D. Moore, J. A. Smith, J. G. Seidman, and K. Struhl. 1987. Current protocols in molecular biology. Greene Publishing Associates and Wiley Interscience, New York, N.Y.
3. Bauerfeind, P., R. M. Garner, and H. L. T. Mobley. 1996. Allelic exchange mutagenesis of nix4 in Helicobacter pylori results in reduced nickel transport and urease activity. Infect. Immun. 64:2877-2880.
4. Bender, R. A., K. A. Janssen, A. D. Resnick, M. Blumenberg, F. Foor, and B. Magasanik. 1977. Biochemical parameters of glutamine synthetase from Klebsiella aerogenes. J. Bacteriol. 129:1001-1009.
5. Eaton, K. A., C. L. Brooks, D. R. Morgan, and S. Krakowka. 1991. Essential role of urease in pathogenesis of gastritis induced by Helicobacter pylori in gnotobiotic piglets. Infect. Immun. 59:2470-2475.
6. Eaton, K. A., and S. Krakowka. 1994. Effect of gastric pH on urease-dependent colonization of gnotohiotic piglets by Helicobacter pylori. Infect. Immun. 62:3604-3607.
7. Ferrero, R. L., V. Cussac, P. Courcoux, and A. Labigne. 1992. Construction of isogenic urease-negative mutants of Helicohacter pylori by allelic exchange. J. Bacteriol. 174:4212-1217.
8. Fisher, R., R. Tuli, and R. Haselkorn. 1981. A cloned cyanobacterial gene for glutamine synthetase functions in Kscherichia coli, but the enzyme is not adenvlated. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:3393-3397.
9. Foxall, P. K., L.-T. Uu, and H. L. T. Mobley. 1992. Use of polymerase chain reaction-amplified Helicobacter pylori urease structural genes for differentiation of isolates. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30:739-741.
10. Gherardini, F. C., M. M. Hobbs, L. V. Stamm, and P. J. Bassford, Jr. 1990. Complementation of an Escherichia coli proC mutation by a gene cloned from Treponema pallidum. J. Bacteriol. 172:2996-3002.
11. Gilbert, J. V., J. Ramakrishna, F. W. Sunderman, A. Wright, and A. G. Plaut. 1995. Protein Hpn: cloning and characterization of a histidine-rich metal-binding polypeptide in Helicobacter pylori. Infect. Immun. 63:2682-2688.
12. Goodwin, C. S., J. A. Armstrong, T. Chilvers, M. Peters, M. D. Collins, L. Sly, W. McConnell, and W. E. S. Harper. 1991. Transfer of Campylobacter pylori and Campylobacter mustelae to Helicobacter gen. nov. as Helicobacter pylori comb. nov. and Helicobacter mustelae comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 41:31-38.
13. Hamilton-Miller, J. M. T., and R. A. Gargan. 1979. Rapid screening for urease inhibitors. Invest. Urol. 16:327-328.
14. Hay, B., and J. M. Short. 1992. ExAssist helper phage and SOLR cells for Lambda ZAP II excisions. Strategies Mol. Biol. 5:16-18.
15. Hazell, S. L., T. J. Borody, and A. Lee. 1987. Campylobacter pyloridis gastritis. I. Detection of urease as a marker of bacterial colonization and gastritis. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 82:292-296.
16. Hendricks, J. K., and H. L. T. Mobley. 1997. Helicobacter pylori ABC transporter: effect of allelic exchange mutagenesis on urease activity. J. Bacteriol. 179:5892-5902.
17. Hohn, B., and J. Collins. 1980. A small cosmid for efficient cloning of large DNA fragments. Gene 11:291-298.
18. Hu, L.-T., P. F. Foxall, R. Russell, and H. L. T. Mobley. 1992. Purification of recombinant Helicobacter pylori urease apoenzyme encoded by ureA and ureB. Infect. Immun. 60:2657-2666.
19. Hu, L.-T., and H. L. T. Mobley. 1990. Purification and N-terminal analysis of urease from Helicobacter pylori. Infect. Immun. 58:992-998.
20. Ishino, Y., P. Morgenthaler, H. Hottinger, and D. Soil. 1992. Organization and nucleotide sequence of the glutamine synthetase (glnA) gene from Laclobacillu dlbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58:3165-3169.
21. Magasanik, B. 1996. Regulation of nitrogen utilization, p. 1344-1356. In F. C. Neidhardt, R. Curtiss III, J. L. Ingraham, E. C. C Lin, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik, W. S. Reznikoff, M. Riley, M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
22. Marshall, B. J., J. R. Warren, G. J. Francis, S. R. Langton, C. S. Goodwin, and E. D. Blincow. 1987. Rapid urease test in the management of Campylobacter pyloridis-associated gastritis. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 82:200-210.
23. Mayer, E. P., O. H. Smith, W. W. Fredricks, and M. A. McKinney. 1975. The isolation and characterization of glutamine-requiring strains of Escherichia coli K 12. Mol. Gen. Genet. 137:131-142.
24. McNulty, C. A. M., and R. Wise. 1985. Rapid diagnosis of campylobacter-associatcd gastritis. Lancet i:1443.
25. Mobley, H., R. Garner, and P. Bauerfeind. 1995. Helicobacter pylori nickel-transport gene nixA: synthesis of catalytically active urease in Escherichia coli independent of growth conditions. Mol. Microbiol. 16:97-109.
26. Mobley, H. L. T. 1997. Structure and function of H. pvlori urease, p. 59-73. In P. B. Ernst, P. Michetti, and P. D. Smith (ed.), The immunobiology of H. pylori: from pathogenesis to prevention. Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa.
27. Mobley, H. L. T., M. J. Cortesia, L. E. Rosenthal, and B. D. Jones. 1988. Characterization of urease from Camylobacter pylori. J. Clin. Microbiol. 26:831-836.
28. Mobley, H. L. T., B. D. Jones, and A. E. Jerse. 1986. Cloning of urease gene sequences from Providencia stuartii. Infect. Immun. 54:161-169.
29. Reitzer, L. J. 1996. Ammonia assimilation and the biosynthesis of glutamine, glutamate, aspartate, asparagine, L-alanine, and D-alanine, p. 391-407. In F. C. Neidhardt, R. Curtiss III, J. L. Ingraham, E. C. C. Lin, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik, W. S. Reznikoff, M. Riley, M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
30. Reitzer, L. J., and B. Magasanik. 1987. Ammonia assimilation and the biosynthesis of glutamine, glutamate, aspartate, asparugine, L-alanine, and D-alanine, p. 302-320. In F. C. Neidhardt, J. L. Ingraham, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik, M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium: cellular and molecular biology. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
31. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
32. Sanger, F., S. Nicklen, and A. R. Coulson. 1977. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:5463-5467.
33. Shapiro, B. M., and E. R. Stadtman. 1968. 5′-Adenylyl-O-tyrosine: the novel phosphodiester residue of adenylated glutamine synthetase from Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 243:3769-3771.
34. Tomb, J. F., O. White, A. R. Kerlabage, R. A. Clayton, G. G. Sutton, R. D. Fleischmann, K. A. Ketchum, H. P. Klenk, S. Gill, B. A. Dougherty, K. Nelson, J. Quackenbush, L. Zhou, E. F. Kirkness, S. Peterson, B. Loftus, D. Richardson, R. Dodson, H. G. Khalak, A. Glodek, K. McKenney, L. M. Fitzegerald, N. Lee, M. D. Adams, E. K. Hickey, D. E. Berg, J. D. Gocayne, T. R. Utterback, J. D. Peterson, J. M. Kelley, M. D. Cotton, J. M. Weidman, C. Fujii, C. Bowman, L. Watthey, E. Wallin, W. S. Hayes, M. Borodovsky, P. D. Karp, H. O. Smith, C. M. Fraser, and J. C. Venter. 1997. The complete genome sequence of the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Nature 388: 539-547.
35. Trieu-Cuot, P., and P. Courvalin. 1993. Nucleotide sequence of the Streptococcus faecalis plasmid gene encoding the 3′5′-aminoglycoside phosphotransferase type III. Gene 23:331-341.
36. Usdin, K. P., H. Zappe, D. T. Jones, and D. R. Woods. 1986. Cloning, expression, and purification of glutamine synthetase from Clostridium acetobutylicum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 52:413-419.
37. Valentine, J. L., R. R. Arthur, H. L. T. Mobley, and J. D. Dick. 1991. Detection of Helicobacter pylori by using the polymerase chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 29:689-695.
38. Wang, Y., and D. E. Taylor. 1990. Chloramphenicol resistance in Campylobacter coli: nucleotide sequence, expression, and cloning vector construction. Gene 94:23-28.