Elongation factor Tu is methylated in response to nutrient deprivation in Escherichia coli. |
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| Authors: | C C Young and R W Bernlohr |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802. |
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| Abstract: | It has been shown previously that starvation of a mid-logarithmic-phase culture of Escherichia coli B/r for an essential nutrient results in the methylation of a membrane-associated protein (P-43) (C. C. Young and R. W. Bernlohr, J. Bacteriol. 172:5147-5153, 1990). In this communication, the purification of P-43 and sequence analysis of cyanogen bromide-generated peptide fragments identified P-43 as elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu). This was confirmed by the ability of anti-EF-Tu antibody to precipitate P-43. We propose that the nutrient-dependent methylation of EF-Tu may be involved in the regulation of growth, possibly as a principal component of an unidentified signal transduction pathway in bacteria. |
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