Journal of Biological Chemistry
Volume 278, Issue 4, 24 January 2003, Pages 2212-2218
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PROTEIN SYNTHESIS POST-TRANSLATION MODIFICATION AND DEGRADATION
Posttranslational Modification of Serine to Formylglycine in Bacterial Sulfatases: RECOGNITION OF THE MODIFICATION MOTIF BY THE IRON-SULFUR PROTEIN AtsB*

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Cα-formylglycine is the catalytic residue of sulfatases. Formylglycine is generated by posttranslational modification of a cysteine (pro- and eukaryotes) or serine (prokaryotes) located in a conserved (C/S)XPXR motif. The modifying enzymes are unknown. AtsB, an iron-sulfur protein, is strictly required for modification of Ser72 in the periplasmic sulfatase AtsA ofKlebsiella pneumoniae. Here we show (i) that AtsB is a cytosolic protein acting on newly synthesized serine-type sulfatases, (ii) that AtsB-mediated FGly formation is dependent on AtsA's signal peptide, and (iii) that the cytosolic cysteine-type sulfatase ofPseudomonas aeruginosa can be converted into a substrate of AtsB if the cysteine is substituted by serine and a signal peptide is added. Thus, formylglycine formation in serine-type sulfatases depends both on AtsB and on the presence of a signal peptide, and AtsB can act on sulfatases of other species. AtsB physically interacts with AtsA in a Ser72-dependent manner, as shown in yeast two-hybrid and GST pull-down experiments. This strongly suggests that AtsB is the serine-modifying enzyme and that AtsB relies on a cytosolic function of the sulfatase's signal peptide.

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Published, JBC Papers in Press, November 4, 2002, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M209435200

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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.