Cellular control of conjugation in Escherichia coli K12. Effect of chromosomal cpx mutations on F-plasmid gene expression.
Cellular control of conjugation in Escherichia coli K12. Effect of chromosomal cpx mutations on F-plasmid gene expression.
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大肠杆菌 K12 中缀合的细胞控制。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(82)90275-3
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Silverman,PM
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作者:
Sambucetti,L;Eoyang,L;Silverman,PM
DNA donor activity and surface exclusion ofEscherichia coliF+and Hfr strains require expression of both F-plasmid and chromosomal genes. The plasmid genes are contained in the 35,000 basetraregion, where most of them are organized as a co-regulated gene block designated thetraY → Zoperon. The chromosomal genes have been identified among chromosomal mutants that fail to express donor activity and surface exclusion, even when they carry normal F-plasmid DNA. We show here that mutations in two chromosomal genes,cpxAandcpxB, together reduce the abundance oftraoperon mRNA to 15% or less of the value in otherwise isogeniccpxA+cpxB+cells. ThecpxB1mutation alone had no effect on thetraoperon messenger RNA level, in agreement with previous evidence that this allele by itself is cryptic. We attribute the effect of bothcpxmutations ontraoperon mRNA to a transcriptional defect resulting from the inability of mutant cells to accumulate thetraJgene product, a 24,000Mrouter membrane protein that is also required for efficienttraoperon expressionin vivo. Ultraviolet light-irradiatedcpxA2 cpxB1mutant cells infected with a λp(traJ) transducing bacteriophage that contains an intacttraJgene and its normal control sequences failed to accumulate the TraJ protein as a 24,000Mrpolypeptide, whereascpxA+cpxB1 cells, otherwise isogenic, did. In the same experimental system, bothcpxA2 cpxB1andcpxA+cpxB1cells infected with the λp(traJ) bacteriophage accumulated comparable levels of RNA complementary totraJ. Moreover,cpxA2 cpxB1andcpxA+cpxB1cells synthesized comparable levels of β-galactosidase from atraJ-lacZprotein fusion. These results show that thecpxmutations do not reduce transcription or translation initiation attraJsequences. They define a new cellular contribution to conjugation, which we propose is related to the translocation of the TraJ protein to the outer membrane.
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作者:
M. Achtman
通讯作者:
M. Achtman
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
R. Sykes;K. Nordström
通讯作者:
K. Nordström
影响因子:
5.6
作者:
ACHTMAN, M;MANNING, PA;WILLETTS, N
通讯作者:
WILLETTS, N
影响因子:
64.5
作者:
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通讯作者:
COHEN, SN
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通讯作者:
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