Characterization of the carbon starvation-inducible and stationary phase-inducible gene slp encoding an outer membrane lipoprotein in Escherichia coli.
Mol Microbiol
; 11(6): 1059-71, 1994 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
Escherichia coli induces the expression of more than 50 proteins in response to starvation for a carbon source. Strains MC7 (csi7phoA) and MC19 (csi19phoA) contain fusions of a signal peptide-deficient phoA reporter sequence to a csi (carbon starvation-inducible) gene. PhoA expression increased when these strains were deprived of a carbon source or entered stationary phase but did not when the cells were deprived of a nitrogen source or subjected to osmotic, oxidative or thermal stress. Mapping and sequence analysis of the cloned phoA fusions in strains MC7 and MC19 indicated that they had occurred in different locations within the same previously unidentified gene. The wild-type allele of this gene was cloned and the encoded protein was found to be a new lipoprotein. Therefore we propose to call this locus slp (starvation lipoprotein). The 22 kDa Slp protein is associated with the outer membrane fraction. The slp gene was located at 78.6 centisomes on the E. coli genetic map. The -10 and -35 regions upstream of the mRNA start site were characteristic of a sigma 70 promoter. The major transcript from this promoter was sufficiently large to contain slp sequences but not the downstream open reading frame. Induction of beta-galactosidase activity from a slplacZ translational fusion during carbon starvation or stationary phase was independent of cAMP, RpoS (KatF) and DnaK, all of which are known to affect the expression of certain starvation-inducible or stationary phase-inducible proteins.
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01-internacional
Contexto em Saúde:
3_ND
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Proteínas da Membrana Bacteriana Externa
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Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica
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Proteínas de Escherichia coli
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Escherichia coli
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Genes Bacterianos
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Lipoproteínas
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Mol Microbiol
Ano de publicação:
1994
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Article