Plasmid-mediated sucrose metabolism in Escherichia coli: characterization of scrY, the structural gene for a phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sucrose phosphotransferase system outer membrane porin.
AUTOR(ES)
Hardesty, C
RESUMO
The scrY gene, part of the pUR400-borne sucrose regulon, appeared to be transcribed from its own promoter, with the transcriptional start site located 58 bp upstream from the initiation codon. An open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 505 amino acid residues (Mr 55,408) was identified. The first 22 amino acid residues formed a leader sequence typical of those found in other procaryotic outer membrane and periplasmic proteins. A frameshift mutation in the scrY gene resulted in a dramatic decrease in sucrose transport with no effect on in vitro phosphorylation activity associated with enzyme IISer. The rate of diffusion of sucrose was 96 times greater than the rate of diffusion of lactose or maltose in liposomes containing the ScrY protein. This increase in sucrose permeability provided strong evidence that the ScrY protein functions as a sucrose porin. There was 23% amino acid sequence identity between the ScrY protein and LamB, a maltose porin from Escherichia coli.
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