Regulation of polyphenol oxidase activities and melanin synthesis in Marinomonas mediterranea: identification of ppoS, a gene encoding a sensor histidine kinase a aThe GenBank accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is AF398464.
- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Microbiology
- Vol. 148 (8) , 2457-2466
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-148-8-2457
Abstract
Marinomonas mediterranea is a melanogenic marine bacterium that expresses two different polyphenol oxidases. One of them is a multipotent laccase able to oxidize a wide range of substrates. The second enzyme is an SDS-activated tyrosinase. Using transposon mutagenesis, a mutant affected in the regulation of both polyphenol oxidase activities and melanogenesis has been isolated. The sequencing of the gene disrupted by the mini-Tn10 transposon in this mutant indicates that it encodes a hybrid sensor kinase. This sensor kinase shows three phosphorylated conserved domains: the transmitter domain containing a histidine site typical of sensor kinases, a receiver domain with an aspartate residue and an additional phosphotransferase domain with a second conserved histidine. This structural organization is characteristic of kinases participating in a phosphorelay system. Northern blot and lacZ operon fusions indicate that the multipotent laccase activity is regulated not only by PpoS but also by growth phase at the transcriptional level. These results suggest that PPO activities and melanin synthesis play a role in the adaptive response of M. mediterranea to stressful environmental conditions.Keywords
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