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1 Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
2 Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Correspondence
Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi
jstyagi54in{at}indiatimes.com
Two-component systems play a central role in the adaptation of pathogenic bacteria to the environment prevailing within host tissues. The genes encoding the response regulator DevR (Rv3133c/DosR) and the cytoplasmic portion (DevS201) of the histidine kinase DevS (Rv3132c/DosS), a putative two-component system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, were cloned and the protein products were overexpressed, purified and refolded as N-terminally His6-tagged proteins from Escherichia coli. DevS201 underwent autophosphorylation and participated in rapid phosphotransfer to DevR in a Mg2+-dependent manner. Chemical stability analysis and site-directed mutagenesis implicated the highly conserved residues His395 and Asp54 as the sites of phosphorylation in DevS and DevR, respectively. Mutations in Asp8 and Asp9 residues, postulated to form the acidic Mg2+-binding pocket, and the invariant Lys104 of DevR, abrogated phosphoryl transfer from DevS201 to DevR. DevR–DevS was thus established as a typical two-component regulatory system based on His-to-Asp phosphoryl transfer. Expression of the Rv3134c–devR–devS operon was induced at the RNA level in hypoxic cultures of M. tuberculosis H37Rv and was associated with an increase in the level of DevR protein. However, in a devR mutant strain expressing the N-terminal domain of DevR, induction was observed at the level of RNA expression but not at that of protein. DevS was translated independently of DevR and induction of devS transcripts was not associated with an increase in protein level in either wild-type or mutant strains, reflecting differential regulation of this locus during hypoxia.
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