Functional analysis of Spr1057 protein Streptococcus pneumoniae The genome of important human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae encodes a single gene of an eukaryotic type serine/threonine protein kinase StkP. Analysis of the global transcriptome of a mutant strain with inactivated stkP gene identified spr1057 gene whose expression was significantly repressed in ∆stkP strain. This gene is coding for Spr1057 protein which is a member of haloacid dehalogenase family. The analysis of the substrate specifity of the Spr1057 protein confirmed nucleotidase activity of this protein in vitro. To study the function of this protein in vivo we prepared several mutant S. pneumoniae strains. Growth characterictics of mutant strains were observed in the presence of modified nucleotides, 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine (5-FdU) and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (5-BrdU). In addition, we monitored the rate of incorporation of 5-BrdU into the chromosomal DNA of the mutant strains in comparison with the wild type S. pneumoniae strain. The growth of the Δspr1057 strain was significantly inhibited in the presence of the modified nucleotides and increased incorporation of 5-BrdU in DNA was showed. Neither growth inhibition nor incorporation of 5-BrdU in DNA was observed for the wild type strain. The expression of an ectopic copy of spr1057...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:337144 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Stehlíková, Zuzana |
| Contributors | Branny, Pavel, Fišer, Radovan |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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