Genotype, phenotype, and protein structure in a regulator of sporulation: Effects of mutations in the spoIIAA gene of Bacillus subtilis

D  Barilla; I  Lucet; A  Kuhlmann; M D  Yudkin

Genotype, phenotype, and protein structure in a regulator of sporulation: Effects of mutations in the spoIIAA gene of Bacillus subtilis

D Barilla, I Lucet, A Kuhlmann, M D Yudkin

Biology

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Abstract

SpoIIAA, a phosphorylatable protein, is essential to the regulation of sigma(F), the first sporulation-specific transcription factor of Bacillus subtilis. The solution structure of SpoIIAA has recently been published. Here we examine four mutant SpoIIAA proteins and correlate their properties with the phenotypes of the corresponding B. subtilis mutant strains. Two of the mutations severely disrupted the structure of the protein, a third greatly diminished the rate of its phosphorylation and abolished dephosphorylation, and the fourth left phosphorylation unaffected but reduced the rate of dephosphorylation about 10-fold.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3860-3863
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Bacteriology
Volume	181
Issue number	12
Publication status	Published - Jun 1999

Keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIGMA(F)
CELL-SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION
EXPRESSION
DIVISION
SITE

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