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  • Protein tyrosine kinase, PtkA, is required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in macrophages.

Protein tyrosine kinase, PtkA, is required for Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in macrophages.

Scientific reports (2018-01-11)
Dennis Wong, Wu Li, Joseph D Chao, Peifu Zhou, Gagandeep Narula, Clement Tsui, Mary Ko, Jianping Xie, Carlos Martinez-Frailes, Yossef Av-Gay
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Protein phosphorylation plays a key role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) physiology and pathogenesis. We have previously shown that a secreted protein tyrosine phosphatase, PtpA, is essential for Mtb inhibition of host macrophage acidification and maturation, and is a substrate of the protein tyrosine kinase, PtkA, encoded in the same operon. In this study, we constructed a ∆ptkA deletion mutant in Mtb and found that the mutant exhibited impaired intracellular survival in the THP-1 macrophage infection model, correlated with the strain's inability to inhibit macrophage phagosome acidification. By contrast, the mutant displayed increased resistance to oxidative stress in vitro. Proteomic and transcriptional analyses revealed upregulation of ptpA, and increased secretion of TrxB2, in the ΔptkA mutant. Kinase and protein-protein interaction studies demonstrated that TrxB2 is a substrate of PtkA phosphorylation. Taken together these studies establish a central role for the ptkA-ptpA operon in Mtb pathogenesis.

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