Identification of a novel response regulator required for the swarmer-to-stalked-cell transition in Caulobacter crescentus - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

Identification of a novel response regulator required for the swarmer-to-stalked-cell transition in Caulobacter crescentus

G B Hecht et al. J Bacteriol. 1995 Nov.

Abstract

The onset of motility late in the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle depends on a signal transduction pathway mediated by the histidine kinase PleC and response regulator DivK. We now show that pleD, whose function is required for the subsequent loss of motility and stalk formation by the motile swarmer cell, encodes a 454-residue protein with tandem N-terminal response regulator domains D1 and D2 and a novel C-terminal GGDEF domain. The identification of pleD301, a semidominant suppressor of the pleC Mot phenotype, as a mutation predicted to result in a D-53-->G change in the D1 domain supports a role for phosphorylation in the PleD regulator. Disruptions constructed in the pleD open reading frame demonstrated that the gene is not essential and that the pleC phenotype can also be suppressed by a recessive, loss-of-function mutation. These results suggest that PleD is part of a signal transduction pathway controlling stalked-cell differentiation early in the C. crescentus cell cycle.

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Identification of a novel response regulator required for the swarmer-to-stalked-cell transition in Caulobacter crescentus - PubMed (original) (raw)