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Mycobacterial phosphatase PstP regulates global serine threonine phosphorylation and cell division.

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posted on 2019-06-10, 13:12 authored by Iswahyudi, GV Mukamolova, AA Straatman-Iwanowska, N Allcock, P Ajuh, O Turapov, HM O'Hare
Protein phosphatase PstP is conserved throughout the Actinobacteria in a genetic locus related to cell wall synthesis and cell division. In many Actinobacteria it is the sole annotated serine threonine protein phosphatase to counter the activity of multiple serine threonine protein kinases. We used transcriptional knockdown, electron microscopy and comparative phosphoproteomics to investigate the putative dual functions of PstP as a specific regulator of cell division and as a global regulator of protein phosphorylation. Comparative phosphoproteomics in the early stages of PstP depletion showed hyperphosphorylation of protein kinases and their substrates, confirming PstP as a negative regulator of kinase activity and global serine and threonine phosphorylation. Analysis of the 838 phosphorylation sites that changed significantly, suggested that PstP may regulate diverse phosphoproteins, preferentially at phosphothreonine near acidic residues, near the protein termini, and within membrane associated proteins. Increased phosphorylation of the activation loop of protein kinase B (PknB) and of the essential PknB substrate CwlM offer possible explanations for the requirement for pstP for growth and for cell wall defects when PstP was depleted.

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Funding was provided by the BBSRC (BB/P001513/1) and the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi (DIKTI). We would like to thank the University of Leicester Core Biotechnology Services Electron Microscopy Facility and Dr Maria Viskaduraki, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, for advice and suggestions on this work.

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Scientific Reports, 2019, 9, Article number: 8337

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES/School of Medicine/Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation

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Scientific Reports

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Nature Research (part of Springer Nature)

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2045-2322

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2019-05-24

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2019

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2019-06-10

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44841-9

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The datasets generated during the current study are available in PRIDE, accession number: PXD011805. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/login.

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