Characterization of sporulation histidine kinases of Bacillus anthracis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 6972-6981

  Brunsing, Ryan L ^a   La Clair, Chandra ^a   Tang, Sharon ^a   Chiang, Christina ^a   Hancock, Lynn E ^a   Perego, Marta ^a   Hoch, James A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HISKA; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN SPOOA; PROTEIN SPOOB; PROTEIN SPOOF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BA1351 GENE; BA1356 GENE; BA1478 GENE; BA2291 GENE; BA2636 GENE; BA2644 GENE; BA3702 GENE; BA4223 GENE; BA5029 GENE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS STRAIN G9241; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID PXO1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 26444460272     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.20.6972-6981.2005     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Anagnostopoulos, C., and J. Spizizen. 1961. Requirements for transformation in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 81:741-746.
2. Arantes, O., and D. Lereclus. 1991. Construction of cloning vectors for Bacillus thuringiensis. Gene 108:115-119.
3. Baillie, L., A. Moir, and R. Manchee. 1998. The expression of the protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis in Bacillus subtilis. J. Appl. Microbiol. 84:741-746.
4. Burbulys, D., K. A. Trach, and J. A. Hoch. 1991. The initiation of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is controlled by a multicomponent phosphorelay. Cell 64:545-552.
5. Callegan, M. C., B. D. Jett, L. E. Hancock, and M. S. Gilmore. 1999. Role of hemolysin BL in the pathogenesis of extraintestinal Bacillus cereus infection assessed in an endophthalmitis model. Infect. Immun. 67:3357-3366.
6. Ferrari, E., S. M. H. Howard, and J. A. Hoch. 1986. Effect of stage 0 mutations on subtilisin expression. J. Bacteriol. 166:173-179.
7. 2-enhanced non-toxin gene expression in Bacillus anthracis. Infect. Immun. 65:3091-3099.
8. Hoffmaster, A. R., and T. M. Koehler. 1999. Control of virulence gene expression in Bacillus anthracis. J. Appl. Microbiol. 87:279-281.
9. Hoffmaster, A. R., J. Ravel, D. A. Rasko, G. D. Chapman, M. D. Chute, C. K. Marston, B. K. De, C. T. Sacchi, C. Fitzgerald, L. W. Mayer, M. C. Maiden, F. G. Priest, M. Barker, L. Jiang, R. Z. Cer, J. Rilstone, S. N. Peterson, R. S. Weyant, D. R. Galloway, T. D. Read, T. Popovic, and C. M. Fraser. 2004. Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:8449-8454.
10. Jiang, M., W. Shao, M. Perego, and J. A. Hoch. 2000. Multiple histidine kinases regulate entry into stationary phase and sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 38:535-542.
11. Kobayashi, K., K. Shoji, T. Shimizu, K. Nakano, T. Sato, and Y. Kobayashi. 1995. Analysis of a suppressor mutation ssb (kinC) of sur0B20 (spo0A) mutation in Bacillus subtilis reveals that kinC encodes a histidine protein kinase. J. Bacteriol. 177:176-182.
12. 2 and a trans-acting element activate transcription from one of two promoters. J. Bacteriol. 176:586-595.
13. LeDeaux, J. R., and A. D. Grossman. 1995. Isolation and characterization of kinC, a gene that encodes a sensor kinase homologous to the sporulation sensor kinases KinA and KinB in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 177:166-175.
14. LeDeaux, J. R., N. Yu, and A. D. Grossman. 1995. Different roles for KinA, KinB, and KinC in the initiation of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 177:861-863.
15. Leenhouts, K. J., B. Tolner, S. Bron, J. Kok, G. Venema, and J. F. Seegers. 1991. Nucleotide sequence and characterization of the broad-host-range lactococcal plasmid pWVO1. Plasmid 26:55-66.
16. Liu, J., K. Tan, and G. D. Stormo. 2003. Computational identification of the Spo0A-phosphate regulon that is essential for the cellular differentiation and development in Gram-positive spore-forming bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res. 31:6891-6903.
17. Maguin, E., P. Duwat, T. Hege, D. Ehrlich, and A. Gruss. 1992. New thermosensitive plasmid for gram-positive bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 174:5633-5638.
18. Mignot, T., M. Mock, and A. Fouet. 2003. A plasmid-encoded regulator couples the synthesis of toxins and surface structures in Bacillus anthracis. Mol. Microbiol. 47:917-927.
19. Mignot, T., M. Mock, D. Robichon, A. Landier, D. Lereclus, and A. Fouet. 2001. The incompatibility between the PlcR- and AtxA-controlled regulons may have selected a nonsense mutation in Bacillus anthracis. Mol. Microbiol. 42:1189-1198.
20. Miller, C., H. Ingmer, L. E. Thomsen, K. Skarstad, and S. N. Cohen. 2003. DpiA binding to the replication origin of Escherichia coli plasmids and chromosomes destabilizes plasmid inheritance and induces the bacterial SOS response. J. Bacteriol. 185:6025-6031.
21. Miller, J. H. 1972. Experiments in molecular genetics, p. 352-355. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
22. Mock, M., and A. Fouet. 2001. Anthrax. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 55:647-671.
23. Molle, V., M. Fujita, S. T. Jensen, P. Eichenberger, J. E. Gonzalez-Pastor, J. S. Liu, and R. Losick. 2003. The Spo0A regulon of Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 50:1683-1701.
24. Perego, M. 1993. Integrational vectors for genetic manipulation in Bacillus subtilis, p. 615-624. In A. L. Sonenshein, J. A. Hoch, and R. Losick (ed.), Bacillus subtilis and other gram-positive bacteria: biochemistry, physiology, and molecular genetics. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
25. Perego, M. 1998. Kinase-phosphatase competition regulates Bacillus subtilis development. Trends Microbiol. 6:366-370.
26. Perego, M. 2001. A new family of aspartyl-phosphate phosphatases targeting the sporulation transcription factor Spo0A of Bacillus subtilis. Mol. Microbiol. 42:133-144.
27. Perego, M., S. P. Cole, D. Burbulys, K. A. Trach, and J. A. Hoch. 1989. Characterization of the gene for a protein kinase which phosphorylates the sporulation-regulatory proteins Spo0A and Spo0F of Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 171:6187-6196.
28. Poyart, C., and P. Trieu-Cuot. 1997. A broad-host-range mobilizable shuttle vector for the construction of transcriptional fusions to β-galactosidase in Gram-positive bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 156:193-198.
29. Saile, E., and T. M. Koehler. 2002. Control of anthrax toxin gene expression by the transition state regulator abrB. J. Bacteriol. 184:370-380.
30. Schaeffer, P., J. Millet, and J. P. Aubert. 1965. Catabolic repression of bacterial sporulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 54:704-711.
31. Slamti, L., S. Perchat, M. Gominet, G. Vilas-Boas, A. Fouet, M. Mock, V. Sanchis, J. Chaufaux, M. Gohar, and D. Lereclus. 2004. Distinct mutations in PlcR explain why some strains of the Bacillus cereus group are nonhemolytic. J. Bacteriol. 186:3531-3538.
32. Steinmetz, M., and R. Richter. 1994. Easy cloning of mini-Tn10 insertions from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. J. Bacteriol. 176:1761-1763.
33. Stephenson, K., and J. A. Hoch. 2002. Evolution of signaling in the sporulation phosphorelay. Mol. Microbiol. 46:297-304.
34. Strauch, M. A., P. Ballar, A. J. Rowshan, and K. L. Zoller. 2005. The DNA-binding specificity of the Bacillus anthracis AhrB protein. Microbiology 151:1751-1759.
35. Strauch, M. A., and J. A. Hoch. 1993. Transition state regulators: sentinels of Bacillus subtilis post-exponential gene expression. Mol. Microbiol. 7:337-342.
36. Tzeng, Y.-L., and J. A. Hoch. 1997. Molecular recognition in signal transduction: the interaction surfaces of the Spo0F response regulator with its cognate phosphorelay proteins revealed by alanine scanning mutagenesis. J. Mol. Biol. 272:200-212.
37. Vaughn, J. L., V. Feher, S. Naylor, M. A. Strauch, and J. Cavanagh. 2000. Novel DNA binding domain and genetic regulation model of Bacillus subtilis transition state regulator abrB. Nat. Struct. Biol. 7:1139-1146.
38. Zapf, J. W., U. Sen, Madhusudan, J. A. Hoch, and K. I. Varughese. 2000. A transient interaction between two phosphorelay proteins trapped in a crystal lattice reveals the mechanism of molecular recognition and phosphotransfer in signal transduction. Struct. Fold. Des. 8:851-862.
39. Zhao, H., T. Msadek, J. W. Zapf, Madhusudan, J. A. Hoch, and K. I. Varughese. 2002. DNA complexed structure of the key transcription factor initiating development in sporulating bacteria. Structure 10:1041-1050.