Revisiting the pH-gated conformational switch on the activities of HisKA-family histidine kinases

Bacterial two-component systems are composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and an effector response regulator and upon signal detection, the HK autophosphorylates a conserved His residue. Here the authors structurally and functionally characterise two HKs, HK853–RR468 and EnvZ–OmpR, and find tha...

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Main Authors: Cristina Mideros-Mora, Laura Miguel-Romero, Alonso Felipe-Ruiz, Patricia Casino, Alberto Marina
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a680d0f7de9a49d3bb3359801876a0f3
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Summary:Bacterial two-component systems are composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and an effector response regulator and upon signal detection, the HK autophosphorylates a conserved His residue. Here the authors structurally and functionally characterise two HKs, HK853–RR468 and EnvZ–OmpR, and find that the rotamer of the phosphorylatable catalytic His is not influenced by the environmental pH, ruling out an earlier proposed pH-gated model.