Protein acetyltransferases mediate bacterial adaptation to a diverse environment

A Dash, R Modak - Journal of Bacteriology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Protein lysine acetylation is a conserved posttranslational modification that modulates
several cellular processes. Protein acetylation and its physiological implications in …

Contribution of Nε-lysine Acetylation towards Regulation of Bacterial Pathogenesis

J Luu, VJ Carabetta - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Nε-lysine acetylation is an important, dynamic regulatory posttranslational
modification (PTM) that is common in bacteria. Protein acetylomes have been characterized …

An N-acetyltransferase required for ESAT-6 N-terminal acetylation and virulence in Mycobacterium marinum

OA Collars, BS Jones, DD Hu, SD Weaver… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT N-terminal protein acetylation is a ubiquitous post-translational modification that
impacts diverse cellular processes in higher organisms. Bacterial proteins are also N …

Regulation of translation by lysine acetylation in Escherichia coli

SC Feid, HE Walukiewicz, X Wang, ES Nakayasu… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT N ε-lysine acetylation is a common posttranslational modification observed in
diverse species of bacteria. Aside from a few central metabolic enzymes and transcription …

Acetylation, ADP-ribosylation and methylation of malate dehydrogenase

ML Kuhn, JF Rakus, D Quenet - Essays in biochemistry, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Metabolism within an organism is regulated by various processes, including post-
translational modifications (PTMs). These types of chemical modifications alter the …

Acetylation of PhoP K88 Is Involved in Regulating Salmonella Virulence

J Li, S Liu, Y Su, J Ren, Y Sang, J Ni, J Lu… - Infection and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulation system of Salmonella enterica
serovar Typhimurium is involved in the response to various environmental stresses and is …

Exceptionally versatile take II: post-translational modifications of lysine and their impact on bacterial physiology

J Lassak, A Sieber, M Hellwig - Biological Chemistry, 2022 - degruyter.com
Among the 22 proteinogenic amino acids, lysine sticks out due to its unparalleled chemical
diversity of post-translational modifications. This results in a wide range of possibilities to …

A Thermosensitive, Phase-Variable Epigenetic Switch: pap Revisited

M Zamora, CA Ziegler, PL Freddolino… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
It has been more than a decade since the last comprehensive review of the phase-variable
uropathogen-associated pyelonephritis-associated pilus (pap) genetic switch. Since then …

Acetylation of cyclic AMP receptor protein by acetyl phosphate modulates mycobacterial virulence

Y Di, S Xu, M Chi, Y Hu, X Zhang, H Wang… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) as a pathogen is partly attributed to its
ability to sense and respond to dynamic host microenvironments. The cyclic AMP (cAMP) …

ActA-mediated PykF acetylation negatively regulates oxidative stress adaptability of Streptococcus mutans

Q Ma, J Li, S Yu, Y Liu, J Zhou, X Wang, L Wang, J Zou… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Dental caries is associated with microbial dysbiosis caused by the excessive proliferation of
Streptococcus mutans in dental biofilms, where oxidative stress serves as the major stressor …