Inhibition of Development of Myxococcus xanthus by Eukaryotic Protein Kinase Inhibitors

AUTOR(ES)

Jain, Ritu

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Myxococcus xanthus is a social bacterium that lives in the soil and undergoes spectacular development to form multicellular fruiting bodies. It contains a large family of eukaryote-like serine/threonine protein kinases. We found that a number of inhibitors for eukaryotic protein serine, threonine, and tyrosine kinases could inhibit the development and sporulation of M. xanthus to various degrees. These results suggest that serine/threonine and tyrosine phosphorylation may be involved in development of M. xanthus. None of the inhibitors tested had any effect on vegetative growth of M. xanthus. Most of them seemed to act during the early stages of development. However, the expression of a very early development-specific gene, Ω4521, was not significantly affected by the inhibitors. The patterns of protein phosphorylation during development were also not significantly altered by the inhibitors, suggesting that the targets of the inhibitors are minor or unstable phosphoproteins but play key roles in fruiting-body formation in M. xanthus.

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