PtsH

• Description: HPr, General component of the sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS).
  
  

Gene name	ptsH
Synonyms
Essential	no
Product	histidine-containing phosphocarrier protein HPr of the PTS
Function	PTS-dependent sugar transport and carbon catabolite repression
MW, pI	9,1 kDa, 4.58
Gene length, protein length	264 bp, 88 amino acids
Immediate neighbours	ptsG, ptsI
Gene sequence (+200bp)	Protein sequence
Genetic context This image was kindly provided by SubtiList

The gene

Basic information

• Coordinates: 1458693 - 1458956

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry:[2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Protein HPr N(pi)-phospho-L-histidine + protein EIIA = protein HPr + protein EIIA N(tau)-phospho-L-histidine

• Protein family: HPr family

• Paralogous protein(s): Crh

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains: HPr Domain (2–88)

• Modification: phosphorylations: transient phosphorylation by Enzyme I of the PTS on His-15, regulatory phosphorylation on Ser-46 by HprK PubMed, weak phosphorylation on Ser-12 PubMed, an extensive study on in vivo HPr phosphorylation can be found in Singh et al. (2008) PubMed

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions: GapA-HPr PubMed, HPr-MtlR, HPr-LicR, HPr-LevR,HPr-ManR, YesS-HPr (HPr-His-P), HPr-CcpA PubMed, HPr-RbsR PubMed, HprK-HPr PubMed

• Localization: Cytoplasm PubMed

Database entries

• Structure: NCBI, complex of L. Casei HprK with B. Subtilis HPr NCBI, complex of L. Casei HprK with B. Subtilis HPr-Ser-P NCBI

• Swiss prot entry: [3]

• KEGG entry: [4]

• E.C. number: 2.7.11.-

Expression and regulation

• Operon:
  • ptsG-ptsH-ptsI
  • ptsH-ptsI

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation: expression activated by glucose (2-fold) PubMed, induction by glucose (ptsG), constitutive (ptsH)

• Regulatory mechanism: ptsG: transcriptional antitermination via the GlcT-dependent RNA-switch

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant: MZ303 (cat), GP507 ptsH1 (S46A), GP506 (ptsH-H15A), available in Stülke lab

• Expression vector: pGP438 (with N-terminal Strep-tag, in pGP172), pAG2 (His-tag) pGP371(ptsH-S46A, with His-tag, in pWH844), available in Stülke

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system: B. pertussis adenylate cyclase-based bacterial two hybrid system (BACTH), available in Görke lab

• Antibody: available in Stülke lab

Labs working on this gene/protein

Josef Deutscher, Paris-Grignon, France

Jörg Stülke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage

Wolfgang Hillen, Erlangen University, Germany Homepage

Richard Brennan, Houston, Texas, USA Homepage

Boris Görke, University of Göttingen, Germany Homepage

Anne Galinier, University of Marseille, France

References

1. Blencke et al. (2003) Transcriptional profiling of gene expression in response to glucose in Bacillus subtilis: regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Metab Eng. 5: 133-149 PubMed
2. Macek B, Mijakovic I, Olsen JV (2007) The serine/threonine/tyrosine phosphoproteome of the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Mol Cell Proteomics 6(4): 697-707. PubMed
3. Müller W, Horstmann N, Hillen W (2006) The transcription regulator RbsR represents a novel interaction partner of the phosphoprotein HPr-Ser46-P in Bacillus subtilis FEBS J. 273(6): 1251-61. PubMed
4. Pompeo et al. (2007) Interaction of GapA with HPr and its homologue, Crh: Novel levels of regulation of a key step of glycolysis in Bacillus subtilis? J Bacteriol 189, 1154-1157.PubMed
5. Fieulaine, S., Morera, S., Poncet, S., Mijakovic, I., Galinier, A., Janin, J., Deutscher, J., and Nessler, S. (2002) X-ray structure of a bifunctional protein kinase in complex with its protein substrate HPr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99: 13437-13441. PubMed
6. Arnaud M, Vary P, Zagorec M, Klier A, Débarbouillé M, Postma P, Rapoport G (1992) Regulation of the sacPA operon of Bacillus subtilis: identification of phosphotransferase system components involved in SacT activity. J Bacteriol 174:3161-3170. PubMed
7. Deutscher, J., Kessler, U., Alpert, C. A., and Hengstenberg, W. (1984) Bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system: P-ser-HPr and its possible regulatory function. Biochemistry 23: 4455-4460. DOI:10.1021/bi00314a033
8. Deutscher, J., Küster, E., Bergstedt, U., Charrier, V., and Hillen, W. (1995) Protein kinase-dependent HPr/CcpA interaction links glycolytic activity to carbon catabolite repression in Gram-positive bacteria. Mol. Microbiol. 15: 1049-1053. PubMed
9. Eisermann, R., Deutscher, J., Gonzy-Tréboul, G., and Hengstenberg, W. (1988) Site-directed mutagenesis with the ptsH gene of Bacillus subtilis. J Biol Chem 263: 17050-17054. PubMed
10. Frisby, D., and Zuber, P. 1994. Mutations in pts cause catabolite-resistant sporulation and altered regulation of spo0H in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 176: 2587-2595. PubMed
11. Galinier A, Deutscher J, Martin-Verstraete I: (1999) Phosphorylation of either Crh or HPr mediates binding of CcpA to the Bacillus subtilis xyn cre and catabolite repression of the xyn operon. J Mol Biol , 286:307-314. PubMed
12. Görke, B., Fraysse, L. & Galinier, A. (2004) Drastic differences in Crh and HPr synthesis levels reflect their different impacts on catabolite repression in Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 186, 2992-2995 . PubMed
13. Lindner, C., Galinier, A., Hecker, M. & Deutscher, J. (1999) Regulation of the activity of the Bacillus subtilis antiterminator LicT by multiple PEP-dependent, enzyme I- and HPr-catalysed phosphorylation. Mol. Microbiol. 31, 995-1006 . PubMed
14. Lindner, C., Hecker, M., Le Coq, D. & Deutscher, J. (2002) Bacillus subtilis mutant LicT antiterminators exhibiting enzyme I- and HPr-independent antitermination affect catabolite repression of the bglPH operon. J. Bacteriol. 184, 4819-4828 . PubMed
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16. Martin-Verstraete, I., Deutscher, J., and Galinier, A. (1999) Phosphorylation of HPr and Crh by HprK, early steps in the catabolite repression signalling pathway for the Bacillus subtilis levanase operon. J Bacteriol 181: 2966-2969. PubMed
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20. Singh, K. D., Halbedel, S., Görke, B. & Stülke, J. (2007) Control of the phosphorylation state of the HPr protein of the phosphotransferase system in Bacillus subtilis: implication of the protein phosphatase PrpC. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 13: 165-171. PubMed
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