PMID:8416897
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Levengood-Freyermuth, SK, Click, EM and Webster, RE (1993) Role of the carboxyl-terminal domain of TolA in protein import and integrity of the outer membrane. J. Bacteriol. 175:222-8 |
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| Abstract |
The TolA protein is involved in maintaining the integrity of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli, as mutations in tolA cause the bacteria to become hypersensitive to detergents and certain antibiotics and to leak periplasmic proteins into the medium. This protein also is required for the group A colicins to exert their effects and for many of the filamentous single-stranded bacteriophage to infect the bacterial cell. TolA is a three-domain protein, with the amino-terminal domain anchoring it to the inner membrane. The helical second domain is proposed to span the periplasmic space to allow the carboxyl-terminal third domain to interact with the outer membrane. A plasmid that allowed the synthesis and transport of the carboxyl-terminal third domain into the periplasmic space was constructed. The presence of an excess of this domain in the periplasm of a wild-type cell resulted in an increased sensitivity to deoxycholate, the release of periplasmic alkaline phosphatase and RNase into the medium, and an increased tolerance to colicins E1, E2, E3, and A. There was no effect on the cells' response to colicin D, which depends on TonB instead of TolA for its action. The presence of the free carboxyl-terminal domain of TolA in the periplasm in a tolA null mutation did not restore the wild-type phenotype, suggesting that this domain must be part of the intact TolA molecule to perform its function. Our results are consistent with a model in which the carboxyl-terminal domain of TolA interacts with components in the periplasm or on the inner surface of the outer membrane to function in maintaining the integrity of this membrane. |
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Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/biosynthesis; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/biosynthesis; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Biological Transport; Cell Compartmentation; Cell Membrane/physiology; Colicins/metabolism; DNA Mutational Analysis; Escherichia coli/physiology; Escherichia coli Proteins; Osmotic Fragility/physiology; Peptide Fragments/biosynthesis; Peptide Fragments/genetics; Peptide Fragments/pharmacology; Protein Conformation; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism; Structure-Activity Relationship |
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