Abstract
N-terminal acetylation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is catalysed by any of three N-terminal acetyltransferases (NAT), NatA, NatB, and NatC, which contain the catalytic subunits Ard1p, Nat3p and Mak3p, respectively. Yeast 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase (PFK2) was found to be acetylated at the amino acid lysine 3. The Lys3-Arg mutant was not acetylated and the mutation causes a slight decrease in enzyme activity. PFK2 from yeast cells exposed to hypo-osmotic stress is known to be phos-phorylated at Ser8 and Ser652 (Dihazi et al., 2001a). We have taken a mass spectrometric approach to investigate the influence of PFK2 acetylation on its phosphorylation. Wild-type PFK2 and the Lys3-Arg mutant were purified from hypo-osmotically stressed cells and analysed with MALDI-TOF MS for phosphorylation. Wild-type PFK2 without any tag sequence was found to be acetylated and two times phosphorylated at the N-terminal peptide T1–40 carrying the acetylation. The same results were observed with C-terminally His-tagged PFK2. When the His-tag was added to the N-terminus of the protein PFK2, acetylation was found to be incomplete and only one phosphate was incorporated in the peptide T1–41. The Lys3-Arg mutant of PFK2 was not at all post-translationally modified at the N-terminal peptide. Our data indicate that Lys3 acetylation affects the N-terminal phosphorylation of PFK2 under hypo-osmotic stress.
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