Nε−Lysine Acetylation of a Bacterial Transcription Factor Inhibits Its DNA-Binding Activity

S Thao, CS Chen, H Zhu, JC Escalante-Semerena - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Evidence suggesting that eukaryotes and archaea use reversible N ε-lysine (N ε-Lys)
acetylation to modulate gene expression has been reported, but evidence for bacterial use …

The Bacterial Two-Hybrid System Uncovers the Involvement of Acetylation in Regulating of Lrp Activity in Salmonella Typhimurium

R Qin, Y Sang, J Ren, Q Zhang, S Li, Z Cui… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
N𝜀-lysine acetylation is an abundant and important Post-translational modification in
bacteria. We used the bacterial two-hybrid system to screen the genome library of the …

Acetylation of the response regulator RcsB controls transcription from a small RNA promoter

LI Hu, BK Chi, ML Kuhn, EV Filippova… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Nε-lysine acetylation was recently discovered on many bacterial proteins that
function in diverse cellular processes. Thus, many questions remain unanswered. For …

Temporal regulation of the Bacillus subtilis acetylome and evidence for a role of MreB acetylation in cell wall growth

VJ Carabetta, TM Greco, AW Tanner, IM Cristea… - Msystems, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT N ε-Lysine acetylation has been recognized as a ubiquitous regulatory
posttranslational modification that influences a variety of important biological processes in …

The acetylproteome of Gram‐positive model bacterium Bacillus subtilis

D Kim, BJ Yu, JA Kim, YJ Lee, SG Choi, S Kang… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Nε‐lysine acetylation, a reversible and highly regulated PTM, has been shown to occur in
the model Gram‐negative bacteria Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. Here, we …

Mechanisms, detection, and relevance of protein acetylation in prokaryotes

DG Christensen, JT Baumgartner, X Xie, KM Jew… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Posttranslational modification of a protein, either alone or in combination with other
modifications, can control properties of that protein, such as enzymatic activity, localization …

Identification of novel protein lysine acetyltransferases in Escherichia coli

DG Christensen, JG Meyer, JT Baumgartner… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Posttranslational modifications, such as N ε-lysine acetylation, regulate protein function. N ε-
lysine acetylation can occur either nonenzymatically or enzymatically. The nonenzymatic …

Identification of activating region (AR) of Escherichia coli LysR‐type transcription factor CysB and CysB contact site on RNA polymerase alpha subunit at the cysP …

A Lochowska, R Iwanicka‐Nowicka… - Molecular …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
CysB is a LysR‐type transcriptional regulator (LTTR) controlling the expression of numerous
genes involved in bacterial sulphur assimilation via cysteine biosynthesis. Our previous …

Control of protein function by reversible Nɛ-lysine acetylation in bacteria

S Thao, JC Escalante-Semerena - Current opinion in microbiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Recently published work indicates that reversible Nɛ-lysine (Nɛ-Lys) acetylation of proteins
in bacteria may be as diverse, and as important for cellular function, as it has been reported …

YfmK is an Nε-lysine acetyltransferase that directly acetylates the histone-like protein HBsu in Bacillus subtilis

VJ Carabetta, TM Greco, IM Cristea… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Nε-lysine acetylation is an abundant and dynamic regulatory posttranslational modification
that remains poorly characterized in bacteria. In bacteria, hundreds of proteins are known to …