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Acylation of lysine 983 is sufficient for toxin activity of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase. Substitutions of alanine 140 modulate acylation site selectivity of the toxin acyltransferase CyaC.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 5 Jan 2001
Basar T, Havlícek V, Bezousková S, Hackett M, Sebo P
Abstract excerpt
The capacity of adenylate cyclase toxin (ACT) to penetrate into target cells depends on post-translational fatty-acylation by the acyltransferase CyaC, which can palmitoylate the conserved lysines 983 and 860 of ACT. Here, the in vivo acylating capacity of a set of mutated CyaC acyltransferases was characterized by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometric analyses of the ACT product....
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