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Volume 271, Number 43, Issue of October 25, 1996 pp. 26684-26689
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Novel Type of Receptor-like Protein Kinase from a Higher Plant (Catharanthus roseus)
cDNA, GENE, INTRAMOLECULAR AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION, AND IDENTIFICATION OF A THREONINE IMPORTANT FOR AUTO- AND SUBSTRATE PHOSPHORYLATION

(Received for publication, July 1, 1996, and in revised form, August 1, 1996)

From the Institut für Biologie II, Universität Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany

We characterize CrRLK1, a novel type of receptor-like kinase (RLK), from the plant Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle). The protein (90.2 kDa) deduced from the complete genomic and cDNA sequences is a RLK by predicting a N-terminal signal peptide, a large extracytoplasmic domain, a membrane-spanning hydrophobic region followed by a transfer-stop signal, and a C-terminal cytoplasmic protein kinase with all 11 conserved subdomains. It is a novel RLK type because the predicted extracytoplasmic region shares no similarity with other RLKs. The autophosphorylation was investigated with affinity-purified proteins expressed in Escherichia coli. The activity was higher with Mn²⁺ than with Mg²⁺ and achieved half-maximal rates at 2-2.5 µM ATP. The phosphorylation was predominantly on Thr, less on Ser, and not on Tyr. In contrast to other plant RLK, the kinase used an intra- rather than an intermolecular phosphorylation mechanism. After protein cleavage with formic acid, most of the radioactivity was in a 14.1-kDa peptide located at the end of the kinase domain. Mutagenesis of the four Thr residues in this peptide identified Thr-720 in the subdomain XI as important for autophosphorylation and for phosphorylation of -casein. This Thr is conserved in other related kinases, suggesting a subfamily sharing common autophosphorylation mechanisms.

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