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Journal of Bacteriology, January 1999, p. 462-468, Vol. 181, No. 2
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

BglF, the Escherichia coli beta -Glucoside Permease and Sensor of the bgl System: Domain Requirements of the Different Catalytic Activities

Qing Chen and Orna Amster-Choder*

Department of Molecular Biology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel

Received 25 June 1998/Accepted 6 November 1998

The Escherichia coli BglF protein, an enzyme II of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent carbohydrate phosphotransferase system, has several enzymatic activities. In the absence of beta -glucosides, it phosphorylates BglG, a positive regulator of bgl operon transcription, thus inactivating BglG. In the presence of beta -glucosides, it activates BglG by dephosphorylating it and, at the same time, transports beta -glucosides into the cell and phosphorylates them. BglF is composed of two hydrophilic domains, IIAbgl and IIBbgl, and a membrane-bound domain, IICbgl, which are covalently linked in the order IIBCAbgl. Cys-24 in the IIBbgl domain is essential for all the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation activities of BglF. We have investigated the domain requirement of the different functions carried out by BglF. To this end, we cloned the individual BglF domains, as well as the domain pairs IIBCbgl and IICAbgl, and tested which domains and which combinations are required for the catalysis of the different functions, both in vitro and in vivo. We show here that the IIB and IIC domains, linked to each other (IIBCbgl), are required for the sugar-driven reactions, i.e., sugar phosphotransfer and BglG activation by dephosphorylation. In contrast, phosphorylated IIBbgl alone can catalyze BglG inactivation by phosphorylation. Thus, the sugar-induced and noninduced functions have different structural requirements. Our results suggest that catalysis of the sugar-induced functions depends on specific interactions between IIBbgl and IICbgl which occur upon the interaction of BglF with the sugar.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Biology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, POB 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel. Phone: 972 2 675 8460. Fax: 972 2 678 4010. E-mail: amster{at}cc.huji.ac.il.

Journal of Bacteriology, January 1999, p. 462-468, Vol. 181, No. 2
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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