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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 25, 15860-15865, June 19, 1998

Biochemical Properties of Two Protein Kinases Involved in Disease Resistance Signaling in Tomato

From the Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1150

In tomato plants, resistance to bacterial speck disease is mediated by a phosphorylation cascade, which is triggered by the specific recognition between the plant serine/threonine protein kinase Pto and the bacterial AvrPto protein. In the present study, we investigated in vitro biochemical properties of Pto, which appears to function as an intracellular receptor for the AvrPto signal molecule. Pto and its downstream effector Pti1, which is also a serine/threonine protein kinase, were expressed in Escherichia coli as maltose-binding protein and glutathione S-transferase fusion proteins, respectively. The two kinases each autophosphorylated at multiple sites as determined by phosphopeptide mapping. In addition, Pto and Pti1 autophosphorylation occurred via an intramolecular mechanism, as their specific activity was not affected by their molar concentration in the assay. Moreover, an active glutathione S-transferase-Pto fusion failed to phosphorylate an inactive maltose-binding protein-Pto(K69Q) fusion excluding an intermolecular mechanism of phosphorylation for Pto. Pti1 phosphorylation by Pto was also characterized and found to occur with a K_m of 4.1 µM at sites similar to those autophosphorylated by Pti1. Pto and the product of the recessive allele pto phosphorylated Pti1 at similar sites, as observed by phosphopeptide mapping. This suggests that the inability of the kinase pto to confer resistance to bacterial speck disease in tomato is not caused by altered recognition specificity for Pti1 phosphorylation sites.

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