The source of high signal cooperativity in bacterial chemosensory arrays

GE Piñas, V Frank, A Vaknin… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The Escherichia coli chemosensory system consists of large arrays of transmembrane
chemoreceptors associated with a dedicated histidine kinase, CheA, and a linker protein …

Core unit of chemotaxis signaling complexes

M Li, GL Hazelbauer - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial chemoreceptors, histidine kinase CheA, and coupling protein CheW form clusters
of chemotaxis signaling complexes. In signaling complexes kinase activity is enhanced …

Defining a key receptor–CheA kinase contact and elucidating its function in the membrane-bound bacterial chemosensory array: a disulfide mapping and TAM-IDS …

KN Piasta, CJ Ulliman, PF Slivka, BR Crane… - Biochemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The three core components of the ubiquitous bacterial chemosensory array the
transmembrane chemoreceptor, the histidine kinase CheA, and the adaptor protein CheW …

Hexameric rings of the scaffolding protein CheW enhance response sensitivity and cooperativity in Escherichia coli chemoreceptor arrays

GE Piñas, MD DeSantis, CK Cassidy, JS Parkinson - Science signaling, 2022 - science.org
The Escherichia coli chemoreceptor array is a supramolecular assembly that enables cells
to respond to extracellular cues dynamically and with great precision and sensitivity. In the …

Bacterial chemoreceptor arrays are hexagonally packed trimers of receptor dimers networked by rings of kinase and coupling proteins

A Briegel, X Li, AM Bilwes, KT Hughes… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Chemoreceptor arrays are supramolecular transmembrane machines of unknown structure
that allow bacteria to sense their surroundings and respond by chemotaxis. We have …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of the chemotaxis histidine kinase CheA: A structural perspective

AR Muok, A Briegel, BR Crane - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacteria sense and respond to their environment through a highly conserved assembly of
transmembrane chemoreceptors (MCPs), the histidine kinase CheA, and the coupling …

The 3.2 Å resolution structure of a receptor: CheA: CheW signaling complex defines overlapping binding sites and key residue interactions within bacterial …

X Li, AD Fleetwood, C Bayas, AM Bilwes… - Biochemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bacterial chemosensory arrays are composed of extended networks of chemoreceptors
(also known as methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins, MCPs), the histidine kinase CheA …

His-tag-mediated dimerization of chemoreceptors leads to assembly of functional nanoarrays

ER Haglin, W Yang, A Briegel, LK Thompson - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Transmembrane chemotaxis receptors are found in bacteria in extended hexagonal arrays
stabilized by the membrane and by cytosolic binding partners, the kinase CheA and …

Structure, function, and on–off switching of a core unit contact between CheA kinase and CheW adaptor protein in the bacterial chemosensory array: A disulfide …

AM Natale, JL Duplantis, KN Piasta, JJ Falke - Biochemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
The ultrasensitive, ultrastable bacterial chemosensory array of Escherichia coli and
Salmonella typhimurium is representative of the large, conserved family of sensory arrays …

Insights into the organization and dynamics of bacterial chemoreceptor clusters through in vivo crosslinking studies

CA Studdert, JS Parkinson - Proceedings of the National …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The team signaling model for bacterial chemoreceptors proposes that receptor dimers of
different detection specificities form mixed trimers of dimers that bind the cytoplasmic …