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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 37, 23668-23673, September 11, 1998

An Ectoprotein Kinase of Group C Streptococci Binds Hyaluronan and Regulates Capsule Formation

Volker Nickel, Sabine Prehm, Manfred Lansing, Andreas Mausolf, Andreas Podbielski, Josef Deutscher^§, and Peter Prehm

From the Institut für Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Waldeyerstr. 15, D-48129 Münster, Germany,  Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie, Robert-Koch Str. 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany, and ^§ Institut de Biologie et Chime des Protéines-CNRS, 7-Passage Du Vercors, F-9367 Lyon, France

A 56-kDa protein had been isolated and cloned from protoplast membranes of group C streptococci that had erroneously been identified as hyaluronan synthase. The function of this protein was reexamined. When streptococcal membranes were separated on an SDS-polyacrylamide gel and renatured, a 56-kDa protein was detected that had kinase activity for a casein substrate. When this recombinant protein was expressed in Escherichia coli and incubated in the presence of [³²P]ATP, it was responsible for phosphorylation of two proteins with 30 and 56 kDa that were not present in the control lysate. The 56-kDa protein was specifically phosphorylated in an immunoprecipitate of a detergent extract of the recombinant E. coli lysate with antibodies against the 56-kDa protein, indicating that it was autophosphorylated. The E. coli lysate containing the recombinant protein could bind hyaluronan, and hyaluronan binding was abolished by the addition of ATP. Kinetic analysis of hyaluronan synthesis and release from isolated protoplast membranes indicated that phosphorylation by ATP stimulated hyaluronan release and synthesis. Incubation of membranes with antibodies to the 56-kDa protein increased hyaluronan release. The addition of [³²P]ATP to intact streptococci led to rapid phosphorylation of two proteins, 56 and 75 kDa each at threonine residues. This phosphorylation was neither observed with [³²P]phosphate nor in the presence of trypsin, indicating that the kinase was localized extracellularly. The addition of ATP to growing group C streptococci led to increased hyaluronan synthesis and release. However marked differences were found between group A and group C streptococci. Antibodies against the 56-kDa protein from group C streptococci did not recognize proteins from group A strains, and a homologous DNA sequence could not be detected by polymerase chain reaction or Southern blotting. In addition, Group A streptococci did not retain a large hyaluronan capsule like group C strains. These results indicated that the 56-kDa protein is an ectoprotein kinase specific for group C streptococci that regulates hyaluronan capsule shedding by phosphorylation.

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