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ArticleMolecular microbiology2011

Biphasic control logic of HAMP domain signalling in the Escherichia coli serine chemoreceptor.

Qin Zhou, Peter Ames, John S Parkinson

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.

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74 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Conformational diversity in poly-HAMP arrays and its implications for signal transduction.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  5. A chemoreceptor conformational equilibrium controlled by signaling inputs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. The structural logic of dynamic signaling in the Escherichia coli serine chemoreceptor.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024
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  8. The Structural Logic of Dynamic Signaling in thebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  9. Signal integration in chemoreceptor complexes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  10. AlphaFold2 captures the conformational landscape of the HAMP signaling domain.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qin ZhouBiology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA.
Peter Ames
John S Parkinson
University of Utah · US

Funding

UTAH REGIONAL CANCER CENTERP30CA042014 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Jared P Rutter · 1986 to 2026
$72.6M
Intracellular Signaling by Bacterial ChemoreceptorsR01GM019559 · NIGMS · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JOHN S PARKINSON · 1985 to 2026
$12.3M
INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING BY BACTERIAL CHEMORECEPTORSR37GM019559 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI PARKINSON, JOHN S · 1992 to 2001
$806k
NCI NIH HHS CA42014NCI NIH HHS P30 CA042014NIGMS NIH HHS GM19559NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM019559NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM019559
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HAMP domains mediate input-output communication in many bacterial signalling proteins. To explore the dynamic bundle model of HAMP signalling (Zhou et al., Mol. Microbiol. 73: 801, 2009), we characterized the signal outputs of 118 HAMP missense mutants of the serine chemoreceptor, Tsr, by flagellar rotation patterns. Receptors with proline or charged amino acid replacements at critical hydrophobic packing residues in the AS1 and AS2 HAMP helices had locked kinase-off outputs, indicating that drastic destabilization of the Tsr-HAMP bundle prevents kinase activation, both in the absence and presence of the sensory adaptation enzymes, CheB and CheR. Attractant-mimic lesions that enhance the structural stability of the HAMP bundle also suppressed kinase activity, demonstrating that Tsr-HAMP has two kinase-off output states at opposite extremes of its stability range. HAMP mutants with locked-on kinase outputs appeared to have intermediate bundle stabilities, implying a biphasic relationship between HAMP stability and kinase activity. Some Tsr-HAMP mutant receptors exhibited reversed output responses to CheB and CheR action that are readily explained by a biphasic control logic. The findings of this study provide strong support for a three-state dynamic bundle model of HAMP signalling in Tsr, and possibly in other bacterial transducers as well.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicBacterial ProteinsDNA Mutational AnalysisEscherichia coliFlagellaMembrane ProteinsModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularMovementMutant ProteinsMutation, MissenseProtein ConformationProtein Structure, TertiaryBacterial ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMutant ProteinsTsr protein, Bacteria

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