Outer membrane of Escherichia coli: properties of the F sex factor traT protein which is involved in surface exclusion.

AUTOR(ES)

Manning, P A

RESUMO

The traT protein (TraTp) of the F sex factor is the product of one of the two genes involved in surface exclusion. Several detergents were examined under different conditions in order to determine their ability to solubilize TraTp from membrane vesicles. These experiments showed that TraTp behaved similar to a number of peptidoglycan-associated outer membrane proteins and that it existed in multimeric aggregates within the membrane. However, unlike other major outer membrane proteins, the amount of TraTp incorporated into the membrane was not affected by lipopolysaccharide-deficient mutants, even when mutants totally lacking the neutral sugars in their lipopolysaccharide backbone were used. TraTp wqs also examined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, where it ran as a discrete spot with a very basic isoelectric point. By coupling cyanogen bromide-activated dextran onto whole cells and by labeling whole cells with 125I (via lactoperoxidase), it was shown that TraTp was exposed on the cell surface. TraTp in a membrane environment was also insensitive to proteolytic attack by trypsin.

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