MptpB, a Virulence Factor from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Exhibits Triple-specificity Phosphatase Activity

Overview

Journal Biochem J

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2007 Jun 23

PMID 17584180

Citations 39

Authors

Nicola Beresford

Sumayya Patel

Jane Armstrong

Balazs Szoor

Anthony P Fordham-Skelton

Lydia Tabernero

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Abstract

Bacterial pathogens have developed sophisticated mechanisms of evading the immune system to survive in infected host cells. Central to the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the arrest of phagosome maturation, partly through interference with PtdIns signalling. The protein phosphatase MptpB is an essential secreted virulence factor in M. tuberculosis. A combination of bioinformatics analysis, enzyme kinetics and substrate-specificity characterization revealed that MptpB exhibits both dual-specificity protein phosphatase activity and, importantly, phosphoinositide phosphatase activity. Mutagenesis of conserved residues in the active site signature indicates a cysteine-based mechanism of dephosphorylation and identifies two new catalytic residues, Asp165, essential in catalysis, and Lys164, apparently involved in substrate specificity. Sequence similarities with mammalian lipid phosphatases and a preference for phosphoinositide substrates suggests a potential novel role of MptpB in PtdIns metabolism in the host and reveals new perspectives for the role of this phosphatase in mycobacteria pathogenicity.

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