CDD Conserved Protein Domain Family: HPT

cl00086: HPT Superfamily

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Histidine Phosphotransfer domain, involved in signalling through a two part component systems in which an autophosphorylating histidine protein kinase serves as a phosphoryl donor to a response regulator protein; the response regulator protein is modulated by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of a conserved aspartic acid residue; two-component proteins are abundant in most eubacteria; In E. coli there are 62 two-component proteins involved in a variety of processes such as chemotaxis, osmoregulation, metabolism and transport 1; also present in both Gram positive and Gram negative pathogenic bacteria where they regulate basic housekeeping functions and control expression of toxins and other proteins important for pathogenesis; in archaea and eukaryotes, two-component pathways constitute a very small number of all signaling systems; in fungi they mediate environmental stress responses and, in pathogenic yeast, hyphal development. In Dictyostelium and in plants, they are involved in important processes such as osmoregulation, cell growth, and differentiation; to date two-component proteins have not been identified in animals; in most prokaryotic systems, the output response is effected directly by the RR, which functions as a transcription factor while in eukaryotic systems, two-component proteins are found at the beginning of signaling pathways where they interface with more conventional eukaryotic signaling strategies such as MAP kinase and cyclic nucleotide cascades

Conserved Protein Domain FamilyHPT

Conserved Protein Domain Family
HPT