SECRETION OF BETA-LACTAMASE REQUIRES THE CARBOXY END OF THE PROTEIN
SECRETION OF BETA-LACTAMASE REQUIRES THE CARBOXY END OF THE PROTEIN
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DOI:
10.1016/0092-8674(80)90321-9
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
64.5
通讯作者:
BOTSTEIN, D
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作者:
KOSHLAND, D;BOTSTEIN, D
Synthesis and secretion of .beta.-lactamase were studied in Salmonella typhimurium infected with P22 phage carrying the structural gene for .beta.-lactamase (the bla gene) in mutant or wild-type form. The wild-type gene specified 2 forms of .beta.-lactamase which differ in MW by about 2500 daltons. This difference is consistent with removal, predicted on other grounds, of 23 amino-terminal residues (the signal sequence). All bla- mutants, including chain-terminating mutants lacking as much as 50% or as little as 10% of the protein, were apparently unaffected in this processing step. Pulse-chase experiments showed that more than 85% of the wild-type (and mutant) proteins are synthesized as complete overlength precursors before being processed to their mature forms. Virtually all the mature wild-type protein appears in the periplasmic space, whereas a large fraction of the precursor appears in the cytoplasm. In contrast, both the precursor and processed forms of .beta.-lactamase proteins synthesized by chain-terminating mutants (including one which lacks only 10% of its residues from the carboxy end) are not secreted and apparently remain soluble in the cytoplasm. The carboxy-terminal amino acid sequence (at least) of .beta.-lactamase is essential to successful transport across the cytoplasmic membrane; the presence (and probably also the act of removal) of the signal sequence evidently does not suffice to ensure secretion.