PMID:8456303
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Alley, MR, Maddock, JR and Shapiro, L (1993) Requirement of the carboxyl terminus of a bacterial chemoreceptor for its targeted proteolysis. Science 259:1754-7 |
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| Abstract |
The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus yields two different progeny at each cell division; a chemotactically competent swarmer cell and a sessile stalked cell. The chemotaxis proteins are synthesized in the predivisional cell and then partition only to the swarmer cell upon division. The chemoreceptors that were newly synthesized were located at the nascent swarmer pole of the predivisional cell, an indication that asymmetry was established prior to cell division. When the swarmer cell differentiated into a stalked cell, the chemoreceptor was specifically degraded by virtue of an amino acid sequence located at its carboxyl terminus. Thus, a temporally and spatially restricted proteolytic event was a component of this differentiation process. |
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| Keywords |
Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Proteins; Caulobacter crescentus/chemistry; Caulobacter crescentus/genetics; Caulobacter crescentus/ultrastructure; Cell Cycle; Chemoreceptor Cells/chemistry; Chemotactic Factors/chemistry; Endopeptidases/metabolism; Escherichia coli/chemistry; Escherichia coli/genetics; Flagella/chemistry; Gene Expression; Membrane Proteins/chemistry; Membrane Proteins/genetics; Membrane Proteins/physiology; Microscopy, Immunoelectron; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis; Plasmids; Restriction Mapping; Structure-Activity Relationship; Transformation, Bacterial |
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