Identification and characterization of the Chlamydia trachomatis L2 S-adenosylmethionine transporter.

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Methylation is essential to the physiology of all cells, including the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia. Nevertheless, the methylation cycle is under strong reductive evolutionary pressure in Chlamydia. Only Parachlamydia acanthamoebae and Waddlia chondrophila genome sequences harbor homologs to metK, encoding the S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) synthetase required for synthesis of SAM, and to sahH, which encodes the S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) hydrolase required for detoxification of SAH formed after the transfer of the methyl group from SAM to the methylation substrate. Transformation of a conditional-lethal ΔmetK mutant of Escherichia coli with a genomic library of Chlamydia trachomatis L2 identified CTL843 as a putative SAM transporter based on its ability to a

SUBMITTER: Binet R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3104491 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature