PMID:12423747
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Lara, B and Ayala, JA (2002) Topological characterization of the essential Escherichia coli cell division protein FtsW. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 216:23-32 |
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| Abstract |
The membrane topology of Escherichia coli FtsW, a 46-kDa essential protein, was analyzed using a set of 28 ftsW-alkaline phosphatase (ftsW-phoA) and nine ftsW-beta-lactamase (ftsW-bla) gene fusions obtained by in vivo and in vitro methods. The alkaline phosphatase activities or resistance pattern of cells expressing the FtsW-PhoA or FtsW-Bla fusions confirmed only eight out of 10 transmembrane segments predicted by computational methods. After comparison with the recent topology of Streptococcus pneumoniae FtsW, we could identify all the fusions in absolute agreement with the predicted model: N-terminal and C-terminal ends in the cytoplasm, 10 transmembrane segments and one large loop of 67 amino acids (E240-E306) located in the periplasm. |
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| Keywords |
Alkaline Phosphatase/genetics; Amino Acid Sequence; Artificial Gene Fusion; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics; Membrane Proteins/chemistry; Membrane Proteins/genetics; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Sequence Alignment; beta-Lactamases/genetics |
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