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SUBMITTER: Shyp V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3432798 | biostudies-other | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Shyp Viktoriya V Tankov Stoyan S Ermakov Andrey A Kudrin Pavel P English Brian P BP Ehrenberg Måns M Tenson Tanel T Elf Johan J Hauryliuk Vasili V
EMBO reports 20120720 9
During the stringent response, Escherichia coli enzyme RelA produces the ppGpp alarmone, which in turn regulates transcription, translation and replication. We show that ppGpp dramatically increases the turnover rate of its own ribosome-dependent synthesis by RelA, resulting in direct positive regulation of an enzyme by its product. Positive allosteric regulation therefore constitutes a new mechanism of enzyme activation. By integrating the output of individual RelA molecules and ppGpp degradati ...[more]