Proteolysis and multimerization regulate signaling along the two-component regulatory system AdeRS.
iScience
; 24(5): 102476, 2021 May 21.
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ABSTRACT
Bacterial two-component regulatory systems are ubiquitous environment-sensing signal transducers involved in pathogenesis and antibiotic resistance. The Acinetobacter baumannii two-component regulatory system AdeRS is made up of a sensor histidine kinase AdeS and a cognate response regulator AdeR, which together reduce repression of the multidrug-resistant efflux pump AdeABC. Herein we demonstrate that an N-terminal intrinsically disordered tail in AdeR is important for the upregulation of adeABC expression, although it greatly increases the susceptibility of AdeR to proteasome-mediated degradation. We also show that AdeS assembles into a hexameric state that is necessary for its full histidine kinase activity, which appears to occur via cis autophosphorylation. Taken together, this study demonstrates new structural mechanisms through which two-component systems can transduce environmental signals to impact gene expression and enlightens new potential antimicrobial approach by targeting two-component regulatory systems.
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