Transmembrane signal transduction by the Escherichia coli osmotic sensor, EnvZ: intermolecular complementation of transmembrane signalling.

Abstract:

:The Escherichia coli regulatory proteins, EnvZ and OmpR, are crucially involved in expression of the outer membrane proteins OmpF/OmpC in response to the medium osmolarity. The EnvZ protein is presumably a membrane-located osmotic sensor (or signal transducer), which exhibits both kinase and phosphatase activities specific for the OmpR protein. To examine the functional importance of the membrane-spanning segments (named TM1 and TM2) of EnvZ molecules in transmembrane signalling, a set of EnvZ mutants, each having amino acid substitutions within the membrane-spanning regions, was characterized in terms of both their in vivo phenotype and in vitro catalytic activities. One of them, characterized further, has an amino acid change (Pro-41 to Ser or Leu) in TM1, and appeared to be defective in its phosphatase activity but not in its kinase activity. This EnvZ mutant conferred a phenotype of OmpF-/OmpC-constitutive. For this EnvZ(P41S or P41L) mutant, a set of intragenic suppressors, each exhibiting a wild-type phenotype of OmpF+/OmpC+, was isolated. These suppressor mutants were revealed to have an additional amino acid change within either TM1 or TM2. Furthermore, they exhibited restored phosphatase activity (i.e., both kinase+ and phosphatase+ activities). It was further demonstrated that one of the suppressors, EnvZ(Arg-180 to Trp in TM2), was able to suppress the defects in both the in vivo phenotype and the in vitro catalytic activities caused by EnvZ(P41S), through intermolecular complementation. These results are best interpreted as meaning that an intimate intermolecular interaction between the membrane-spanning segments of EnvZ is crucial for transmembrane signalling per se in response to an external osmotic stimulus.

journal_name

Mol Microbiol

journal_title

Molecular microbiology

authors

Tokishita S,Mizuno T

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb00438.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-08-01 00:00:00

pages

435-44

issue

3

eissn

0950-382X

issn

1365-2958

journal_volume

13

pub_type

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