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Eukaryotic phytochromes: light-regulated serine/threonine protein kinases with histidine kinase ancestry.


ABSTRACT: The discovery of cyanobacterial phytochrome histidine kinases, together with the evidence that phytochromes from higher plants display protein kinase activity, bind ATP analogs, and possess C-terminal domains similar to bacterial histidine kinases, has fueled the controversial hypothesis that the eukaryotic phytochrome family of photoreceptors are light-regulated enzymes. Here we demonstrate that purified recombinant phytochromes from a higher plant and a green alga exhibit serine/threonine kinase activity similar to that of phytochrome isolated from dark grown seedlings. Phosphorylation of recombinant oat phytochrome is a light- and chromophore-regulated intramolecular process. Based on comparative protein sequence alignments and biochemical cross-talk experiments with the response regulator substrate of the cyanobacterial phytochrome Cph1, we propose that eukaryotic phytochromes are histidine kinase paralogs with serine/threonine specificity whose enzymatic activity diverged from that of a prokaryotic ancestor after duplication of the transmitter module.

SUBMITTER: Yeh KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC24997 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Eukaryotic phytochromes: light-regulated serine/threonine protein kinases with histidine kinase ancestry.

Yeh K C KC   Lagarias J C JC  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19981101 23


The discovery of cyanobacterial phytochrome histidine kinases, together with the evidence that phytochromes from higher plants display protein kinase activity, bind ATP analogs, and possess C-terminal domains similar to bacterial histidine kinases, has fueled the controversial hypothesis that the eukaryotic phytochrome family of photoreceptors are light-regulated enzymes. Here we demonstrate that purified recombinant phytochromes from a higher plant and a green alga exhibit serine/threonine kina  ...[more]

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