Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the Serratia marcescens metalloprotease gene: secretion of the protease from E. coli in the presence of the Erwinia chrysanthemi protease secretion functions.
AUTOR(ES)
Létoffé, S
RESUMO
The Serratia marcescens extracellular protease SM is secreted by a signal peptide-independent pathway. When the prtSM gene was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, the cells did not secrete protease SM. The lack of secretion could be very efficiently complemented by the Erwinia chrysanthemi protease B secretion apparatus constituted by the PrtD, PrtE, and PrtF proteins. As with protease B and alpha-hemolysin, the secretion signal was located within the last 80 amino acids of the protease. These results indicate that the mechanism of S. marcescens protease SM secretion is analogous to the mechanisms of protease B and hemolysin secretion.
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