发布: 2016年12月05日第6卷第23期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2036 浏览次数: 10996
评审: Maria SinetovaAnna A. ZorinaTatsuki Kunoh
Abstract
This is a detailed protocol of an autophosphorylation and phosphotransfer activities of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 full-length Histidine Kinase 2 (Hik2) protein described by Ibrahim et al., 2016. In this protocol, radioactively labelled ATP was used to study an autophosphorylation and phosphotransfer activity of the full-length Hik2 protein.
Keywords: Histidine Kinase 2 (组氨酸激酶2)Background
Protein phosphorylation is an important post-translational modification of proteins that takes place in every living organism. The activity of protein kinases, the enzyme that catalyses the phosphorylation of proteins, was first described by Burnett and Kennedy in 1954, where they showed phosphorylation of casein by a liver enzyme (Burnett and Kennedy, 1954). However, its significance was not appreciated until the 1970s and 1980s (Cohen, 2002). The transfer of the γ-phosphate from an ATP molecule to proteins can be studied using coupled assays or directly with radioactively labelled ATP. Kinase assays based on incorporation of 32P can easily be followed by autoradiography, whereas coupled assays require monitoring of indirect reporter enzyme-catalysed colorimetric or chemiluminescence signals. The work presented here was conducted using radioactive ATP. Serine/threonine-type protein kinases dominate in eukaryotes, while in prokaryotes histidine kinases are the primary protein kinases involved in signal transduction. A histidine kinase catalyses the transfer of only γ-phosphate from an ATP molecule to its conserved histidine residue and transfers phosphoryl group to its response regulator (see Figure 1), but cannot catalyse the transfer of α-phosphate of ATP (Pernestig et al., 2001). Therefore [α-32P]ATP can be used as a negative control when characterising the autophosphorylation activity of putative histidine kinases.
Figure 1. Domain architecture of two-component system. The sensor domain is indicated by oval, the dimerisation and phosphoaccepting (DHp) domain by a cylinder, and the catalytic and ATP-binding (CA) domain by a triangle; receiver (Rec) domain by a hexagon; effector (Effe) domain by a pentagon.
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Ibrahim, I. M. (2016). In vitro Autophosphorylation and Phosphotransfer Assay of Cyanobacterial Histidine Kinase 2. Bio-protocol 6(23): e2036. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2036.
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微生物学 > 微生物信号传导 > 磷酸化
分子生物学 > 蛋白质 > 磷酸化
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