Location and characterization of genes involved in binding of starch to the surface of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.
AUTOR(ES)
Tancula, E
RESUMO
Previous studies of starch utilization by the gram-negative anaerobe Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron have demonstrated that the starch-degrading enzymes are cell associated rather than extracellular, indicating that the first step in starch utilization is binding of the polysaccharide to the bacterial surface. Five transposon-generated mutants of B. thetaiotaomicron which were defective in starch binding (Ms-1 through Ms-5) had been isolated, but initial attempts to identify membrane proteins missing in these mutants were not successful. We report here the use of an immunological approach to identify four maltose-inducible membrane proteins, which were missing in one or more of the starch-binding mutants of B. thetaiotaomicron. Three of the maltose-inducible proteins were outer membrane proteins (115, 65, and 43 kDa), and one was a cytoplasmic membrane protein (80 kDa). The genes encoding these proteins were shown to be clustered in an 8.5-kbp segment of the B. thetaiotaomicron chromosome. Two other loci defined by transposon insertions, which appeared to contain regulatory genes, were located within 7 kbp of the cluster of membrane protein genes. The 115-kDa outer membrane protein was essential for utilization of maltoheptaose (G7), whereas loss of the other proteins affected growth on starch but not on G7. Not all of the proteins missing in the mutants were maltose regulated. We also detected two constitutively produced proteins (32 and 50 kDa) that were less prominent in all of the mutants than in the wild type. Both of these were outer membrane proteins.
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