Characterization of eukaryotic-like kinase activity in Escherichia coli using the gene-protein database

The gene-protein database was used to obtain the two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel coordinates of proteins phosphorylated in extracts of Escherichia coli including those phosphorylated by eukaryotic-like kinase activities. These suggest that the phosphoproteins correspond to, or co-migrate with, the product of an open reading frame at 1.3 min (Orf80), Enzyme 1 of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PtsI), the tRNA synthetase for histidine (HisS), and proteins involved in the response to carbon starvation and quinone treatment.