creators_name: Thakur, Meghna
creators_name: Chakraborti, Pradip K
type: article
datestamp: 2011-12-08 19:38:09
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title: Ability of PknA, a mycobacterial eukaryotic-type serine/threonine kinase, to transphosphorylate MurD, a ligase involved in the process of peptidoglycan biosynthesis.
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subjects: QD
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abstract: Eukaryotic-type serine/threonine protein kinases in bacteria have been implicated in controlling a host of cellular activities. PknA is one of eleven such protein kinases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis which regulates morphological changes associated with cell division. In the present study we provide the evidence for the ability of PknA to transphosphorylate mMurD (mycobacterial UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine:D-glutamate-ligase), the enzyme involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Its co-expression in Escherichia coli along with PknA resulted in phosphorylation of mMurD. Consistent with these observations, results of the solid-phase binding assays revealed a high-affinity in vitro binding between the two proteins. Furthermore, overexpression of m-murD in Mycobacterium smegmatis yielded a phosphorylated protein. The results of the present study therefore point towards the possibility of mMurD being a substrate of PknA.
date: 2008-10-01
date_type: published
publication: The Biochemical journal
volume: 415
number: 1
publisher: Portland Press
pagerange: 27-33
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1470-8728
official_url: http://www.biochemj.org/bj/415/0027/4150027.pdf
related_url_url: http://www.biochemj.org/bj/415/0027/4150027.pdf
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Thakur, Meghna and Chakraborti, Pradip K  (2008) Ability of PknA, a mycobacterial eukaryotic-type serine/threonine kinase, to transphosphorylate MurD, a ligase involved in the process of peptidoglycan biosynthesis.  The Biochemical journal, 415 (1).  pp. 27-33.  ISSN 1470-8728     
document_url: http://crdd.osdd.net/open/587/1/pradip08.1.pdf