Fasciclin Domain Proteins Are Present in Nostoc Symbionts of Lichens

AUTOR(ES)

Paulsrud, Per

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Differences in the soluble protein fraction between the freshly isolated cyanobiont of lichen Peltigera membranacea, the corresponding free-living strain, and Nostoc punctiforme were analyzed. One protein, which was among the most prominent proteins of the freshly isolated cyanobiont, was expressed at a lower level in the corresponding free-living strain and was not detected at all on the two-dimensional gels of N. punctiforme. This protein was partially sequenced, and the corresponding open reading frame (ORF) in the N. punctiforme genome was identified. This ORF contains a fasciclin domain typical of a class of surface-associated proteins involved in cell adhesion. Similar fasciclin motif-containing genes have previously been shown to be symbiotically induced in other symbiotic systems.

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