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Fluorescence-Based Measurements of Phosphatidylserine/Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate Exchange Between Membranes
Published on: March 14, 2021
Dephosphorylated NPr of the nitrogen PTS regulates lipid A biosynthesis by direct interaction with LpxD
Hyun-Jin Kim1, Chang-Ro Lee, Miri Kim
1Department of Biological Sciences and Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase systems (PTS) play multiple roles in addition to sugar transport. Recent studies revealed that enzyme IIA(Ntr) of the nitrogen PTS regulates the intracellular concentration of K(+) by direct interaction with TrkA and KdpD. In this study, we show that dephosphorylated NPr of the nitrogen PTS interacts with Escherichia coli LpxD which catalyzes biosynthesis of lipid A of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) layer. Mutations in lipid A biosynthetic genes such as lpxD are known to confer hypersensitivity to hydrophobic antibiotics such as rifampin; a ptsO (encoding NPr) deletion mutant showed increased resistance to rifampin and increased LPS biosynthesis. Taken together, our data suggest that unphosphorylated NPr decreases lipid A biosynthesis by inhibiting LpxD activity.
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