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Glutamate at the phosphorylation site of response regulator CtrA provides essential activities without increasing DNA binding.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Mar 2003
Siam Rania, Marczynski Gregory T
Abstract excerpt
The essential response regulator CtrA controls the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle and phosphorylated CtrA approximately P preferentially binds target DNA in vitro. The CtrA aspartate to glutamate (D51E) mutation mimics phosphorylated CtrA approximately P in vivo and rescues non-viable C.crescentus cells. However, we observe that the CtrA D51E and the unphosphorylated CtrA wild-type proteins have identical DNA...
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