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Journal of Bacteriology, October 2002, p. 5323-5329, Vol. 184, No. 19
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.19.5323-5329.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

MazG, a Nucleoside Triphosphate Pyrophosphohydrolase, Interacts with Era, an Essential GTPase in Escherichia coli

Junjie Zhang and Masayori Inouye*

Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854

Received 8 May 2002/ Accepted 12 July 2002

Era is an essential GTPase in Escherichia coli, and Era has been implicated in a number of cellular functions. Homologues of Era have been identified in various bacteria and some eukaryotes. Using the era gene as bait in the yeast two-hybrid system to screen E. coli genomic libraries, we discovered that Era interacts with MazG, a protein of unknown function which is highly conserved among bacteria. The direct interaction between Era and MazG was also confirmed in vitro, being stronger in the presence of GDP than in the presence of GTP{gamma}S. MazG was characterized as a nucleoside triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolase which can hydrolyze all eight of the canonical ribo- and deoxynucleoside triphosphates to their respective monophosphates and PPi, with a preference for deoxynucleotides. A mazG deletion strain of E. coli was constructed by replacing the mazG gene with a kanamycin resistance gene. Unlike mutT, a gene for another conserved nucleotide triphosphate pyrophosphohydrolase that functions as a mutator gene, the mazG deletion did not result in a mutator phenotype in E. coli.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Phone: (732) 235-4115. Fax: (732) 235-4559. E-mail: inouye{at}rwja.umdnj.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, October 2002, p. 5323-5329, Vol. 184, No. 19
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.19.5323-5329.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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