Abstract:
:Linker insertion mutagenesis was used to modify the paracrystalline surface layer (S-layer) protein (RsaA) of the gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. Eleven unique BamHI linker insertions in the cloned rsaA gene were identified; at the protein level, these linker insertions introduced 4 to 6 amino acids at positions ranging from the extreme N terminus to the extreme C terminus of the 1,026-amino-acid RsaA protein. All linker-peptide insertions in the RsaA N terminus caused the secreted protein to be shed into the growth medium, suggesting that the RsaA N terminus is involved in cell surface anchoring. One linker-peptide insertion in the RsaA C terminus (amino acid 784) had no effect on S-layer biogenesis, while another (amino acid 907) disrupted secretion of the protein, suggesting that RsaA possesses a secretion signal lying C terminal to amino acid 784, near or including amino acid 907. Unlike extreme N- or C-terminal linker-peptide insertions, those more centrally located in the RsaA primary sequence had no apparent effect on S-layer biogenesis. By using a newly introduced linker-encoded restriction site, a 3' fragment of the rsaA gene encoding the last 242 C-terminal amino acids of the S-layer protein was expressed in C. crescentus from heterologous Escherichia coli lacZ transcription and translation initiation information. This C-terminal portion of RsaA was secreted into the growth medium, confirming the presence of a C-terminal secretion signal. The use of the RsaA C terminus for the secretion of heterologous proteins in C. crescentus was explored by fusing 109 amino acids of an envelope glycoprotein from infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, a pathogen of salmonid fish, to the last 242 amino acids of the RsaA C terminus. The resulting hybrid protein was successfully secreted into the growth medium and accounted for 10% of total protein in a stationary-phase culture. Based on these results and features of the RsaA primary sequence, we propose that the C. crescentus S-layer protein is secreted by a type I secretion system, relying on a stable C-terminal secretion signal in a manner analogous to E. coli alpha-hemolysin, the first example of an S-layer protein secreted by such a pathway.
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J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Bingle WH,Nomellini JF,Smit Jdoi
10.1128/jb.179.3.601-611.1997subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-02-01 00:00:00pages
601-11issue
3eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
179pub_type
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