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. 1989 Sep;171(9):5103–5110. doi: 10.1128/jb.171.9.5103-5110.1989

Legionella micdadei protein kinase catalyzes phosphorylation of tubulin and phosphatidylinositol.

A K Saha 1, J N Dowling 1, N K Mukhopadhyay 1, R H Glew 1
PMCID: PMC210323  PMID: 2549013

Abstract

Legionella micdadei, a pathogen which enters into host phagocyte phagolysosomal structures, contains at least two protein kinases. We have purified to homogeneity the predominant, nucleotide-independent protein kinase and examined its ability to catalyze the transfer of phosphate from ATP to acceptors in human neutrophils. The L. micdadei protein kinase catalyzed the phosphorylation of proteins of 11.5, 14, 19, 23, 28, 34, and 38 kilodaltons (kDa) present in a Triton X-100 extract of neutrophil membranes and of 11.5, 13.5, 25, and 38 kDa in the neutrophil cytosol. Tubulin was a good substrate for the L. micdadei protein kinase in vitro. The bacterial kinase also catalyzed the phosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol (PI) at about half the rate at which histones were phosphorylated; phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate (PIP) was not phosphorylated by the kinase. The PI kinase activity of the L. micdadei enzyme was optimum at pH 7.0, and the divalent cation requirement was satisfied best by Mg2+ and Ca2+. The maximum rate of PI phosphorylation was obtained with 0.6 mM PI; in the presence of MgCl2 (10 mM), the Km for PI was 0.9 mM and the Km for ATP was 1.5 mM. The detergents octyl-beta-D-glucoside (10 to 20 mM) and Triton X-100 (0.5%) stimulated kinase activity twofold when PI was the phosphate acceptor; however, only octyl glucoside stimulated histone kinase activity. Various membrane phospholipids inhibited PI kinase activity. The most potent phospholipid inhibitor was the product of the PI kinase reaction, PIP, which at a 0.6 mM concentration inhibited both PI and tubulin phosphorylation by 80%. The inhibition of kinase activity by PIP when histone served as the acceptor was noncompetitive in character. The L. micdadei kinase also phosphorylated PI in intact. (3H)inositol-labeled neutrophils. The PI kinase and histone kinase activities of teh L. micdadei kinase copurified and cofucused (pI, 5.8) when subjected to isoelectric focusing, suggesting that the two enzymatic activities reside in a single protein.

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