Regulation of nucleoside diphosphate kinase and an alternative kinase in Escherichia coli: role of the sspA and rnk genes in nucleoside triphosphate formation

Molecular Microbiology
S ShankarA M Chakrabarty

Abstract

We have previously reported that two genes cloned from a cosmid library of Escherichia coli can restore mucoidy to an algR2 mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. AlgR2 is a protein involved in the regulation of nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Ndk) as well as alginate synthesis in P. aeruginosa. One of the E. coli genes, rnk, encodes a 14.9 kDa protein with no homology to any other proteins. The other gene, sspA, encodes the stringent starvation protein, a regulatory protein involved in stationary-phase regulation and the stringent response of E. coli. While both rnk and sspA restored alginate production to the P. aeruginosa algR2 mutant, only rnk restored Ndk activity to the mutant. In this report, we have examined the effect of mutations in rnk and sspA on the levels of Ndk in E. coli. We find that a mutation in rnk drastically reduces the level of Ndk in E. coli. A mutation in sspA, however, affects the level of another nucleoside diphosphate kinase distinct from Ndk. The proteins can be easily distinguished from each other by their different affinities for nucleoside diphosphates (NDPs) and also by the differential effect of anti-Ndk antibodies on the reactions they catalyse. The ability of either of these two proteins to restore...Continue Reading

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