Bacterial (intramembrane-sensing) histidine kinases: signal transfer rather than stimulus perception.

Abstract:

:Most membrane-anchored histidine kinases (HKs) of bacterial two-component systems (2CSs) contain an extracellular input domain that is thought to be responsible for sensing an environmental cue. By contrast, intramembrane-sensing HKs (IM-HKs) lack a sensory domain and cannot perceive their stimuli directly. Instead, an N-terminal signal transfer region, consisting solely of two transmembrane helices, presumably connects the IM-HKs with accessory membrane proteins that function as the true sensors. This intermolecular signal transfer, in combination with intramolecular signal conversion, provides HKs with versatile signaling relays to connect, integrate, and amplify external signals from different sensory inputs ultimately to modulate the activity of the corresponding kinase domain.

journal_name

Trends Microbiol

journal_title

Trends in microbiology

authors

Mascher T

doi

10.1016/j.tim.2014.05.006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-10-01 00:00:00

pages

559-65

issue

10

eissn

0966-842X

issn

1878-4380

pii

S0966-842X(14)00115-2

journal_volume

22

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