Bacterial tyrosine kinases: evolution, biological function and structural insights

C Grangeasse, S Nessler… - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reversible protein phosphorylation is a major mechanism in the regulation of fundamental
signalling events in all living organisms. Bacteria have been shown to possess a versatile …

Tyrosine-kinases in bacteria: from a matter of controversy to the status of key regulatory enzymes

E Bechet, S Guiral, S Torres, I Mijakovic, AJ Cozzone… - Amino Acids, 2009 - Springer
When considering protein phosphorylation in bacteria, phosphorylation of aspartic acid and
histidine residues mediated by the two-component systems is the first to spring to mind. And …

Microbial protein-tyrosine kinases

JD Chao, D Wong, Y Av-Gay - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Microbial ester kinases identified in the past 3 decades came as a surprise, as protein
phosphorylation on Ser, Thr, and Tyr amino acids was thought to be unique to eukaryotes …

Bacterial tyrosine-kinases: Structure–function analysis and therapeutic potential

C Grangeasse, R Terreux, S Nessler - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2010 - Elsevier
Since the characterization of genes encoding Ser/Thr-kinases and Tyr-kinases in bacteria, in
1991 and 1997, respectively, a growing body of evidence has been reported showing the …

Tyrosine phosphorylation: an emerging regulatory device of bacterial physiology

C Grangeasse, AJ Cozzone, J Deutscher… - Trends in biochemical …, 2007 - cell.com
Tyrosine phosphorylation is a key device in numerous cellular functions in eukaryotes, but in
bacteria this protein modification was largely ignored until the mid-1990s. The first …

Evolution of bacterial protein-tyrosine kinases and their relaxed specificity toward substrates

L Shi, B Ji, L Kolar-Znika, A Boskovic… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
It has often been speculated that bacterial protein-tyrosine kinases (BY-kinases) evolve
rapidly and maintain relaxed substrate specificity to quickly adopt new substrates when …

Tyrosine phosphorylation as a widespread regulatory mechanism in prokaryotes

LJ Getz, CS Runte, JK Rainey… - Journal of Bacteriology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Phosphorylation events modify bacterial and archaeal proteomes, imparting cells with rapid
and reversible responses to specific environmental stimuli or niches. Phosphorylated …

Characterization of a bacterial gene encoding an autophosphorylating protein tyrosine kinase

C Grangeasse, P Doublet, E Vaganay, C Vincent… - Gene, 1997 - Elsevier
Acinetobacter johnsonii harbors a protein tyrosine kinase activity that is able to catalyze
autophosphorylation, like a number of eukaryotic tyrosine kinases. A biochemical and …

Cross-phosphorylation of bacterial serine/threonine and tyrosine protein kinases on key regulatory residues

L Shi, N Pigeonneau, V Ravikumar, P Dobrinic… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria possess protein serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases which resemble eukaryal
kinases in their capacity to phosphorylate multiple substrates. We hypothesized that the …

Protein-serine/threonine/tyrosine kinases in bacterial signaling and regulation

C Cousin, A Derouiche, L Shi, Y Pagot… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we address some recent developments in the field of bacterial protein
phosphorylation, focusing specifically on serine/threonine and tyrosine kinases. We present …