Location of an F-pilin pool in the inner membrane.
AUTOR(ES)
Moore, D
RESUMO
Polyacrylamide gel analysis of [35S]methionine-labeled membrane preparations from Escherichia coli has revealed the presence of five polypeptides present only in the membranes of cells containing the conjugative plasmid F. In addition to the previously reported product of traT, polypeptides migrating with apparent molecular weights of 100,000, 23,500, 12,000, and 7,000 were resolved. Membrane preparations from F traJ mutants lacked these polypeptides, indicating that all of these proteins are tra gene products. The 7,000-molecular-weight polypeptide comigrated with unlabeled purified F-pilin protein. About 4 to 5% of the total radioactive label in whole membrane preparations was present in this polypeptide, indicating the existence of a substantial pool of membrane-associated F-pilin. The polypeptide could be extracted from whole membrane preparations with Triton X-100 and was found in the inner membrane fraction of membranes separated by sucrose density centrifugation.
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