Abstract：
:The cell walls of Sulfolobales species consist of proteinaceous S-layers assembled from two polypeptides, SlaA and SlaB. We isolated the large S-layer protein of Acidianus ambivalens and both S-layer subunits of Sulfolobus solfataricus and Metallosphaera sedula, respectively. The slaAB genes, lying adjacently in the chromosomes, are constitutively transcribed as bicistronic operons in A. ambivalens and S. solfataricus. A smaller slaA transcript appeared in Northern hybridizations of A. ambivalens RNA. PCRs experiments showed that 80-85% of the transcripts stop at an oligo-T terminator downstream of slaA while 15-20% are read through to a second terminator downstream of slaB. The bicistronic operons including promoter and terminator regions are conserved in the Sulfolobales. While no SlaA homologue is found outside the Sulfolobales, SlaB is distantly similar to S-layer proteins of other Crenarchaeota, e.g. the Staphylothermus marinus tetrabrachion. Molecular modelling suggests SlaBs to be composed of 2-3 consecutive beta sandwich domains, a coiled-coil domain of 15-17 nm in length and a C-terminal transmembrane helix. Electron microscopy shows crystalline protein arrays with triangular and hexagonal pores. We propose that the mushroom-shaped 'unit cells' of the Sulfolobales' S-layers consist of three SlaBs anchoring the complex in the membrane and six SlaAs forming the detergent-resistant outer sacculus.
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Mol Microbioljournal_title
Molecular microbiologyauthors
Veith A,Klingl A,Zolghadr B,Lauber K,Mentele R,Lottspeich F,Rachel R,Albers SV,Kletzin Adoi
10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06746.xsubject
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2009-07-01 00:00:00pages
58-72issue
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0950-382Xissn
1365-2958pii
MMI6746journal_volume
73pub_type
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