NDLI: Expression and Porin Activity of P28 and OMP-1F during Intracellular Ehrlichia chaffeensis Development▿

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Author	Kumagai, Yumi Huang, Haibin Yasuko, Rikihisa
Abstract	Ehrlichia chaffeensis, an obligatory intracellular gram-negative bacterium, must take up various nutrients and metabolic compounds because it lacks many genes involved in metabolism. Nutrient uptake by a gram-negative bacterium occurs primarily through pores or channels in the bacterial outer membrane. Here we demonstrate that isolated E. chaffeensis outer membranes have porin activities, as determined by a proteoliposome swelling assay. The activity was partially blocked by an antibody that recognizes the two most abundant outer membrane proteins, P28/OMP-19 and OMP-1F/OMP-18. Both proteins were predicted to have structural features characteristic of porins, including 12 transmembrane segments comprised of amphipathic and antiparallel β-strands. The sodium dodecyl sulfate stability of the two proteins was consistent with a β-barrel structure. Isolated native P28 and OMP-1F exhibited porin activities, with pore sizes similar to and larger than, respectively, that of OprF, which is the porin with the largest pore size known to date. E. chaffeensis experiences temperature changes during transmission by ticks. During the intracellular development of E. chaffeensis, both P28 and OMP-1F were expressed mostly in the mid-exponential growth phase at 37°C and the late-exponential growth phase at 28°C. The porin activity of proteoliposomes reconstituted with proteins from the outer membrane fractions derived from bacteria in the mid- and late-exponential growth phases at 28°C and 37°C correlated with the expression levels of P28 and OMP-1F. These results imply that P28 and OMP-1F function as porins with large pore sizes, suggesting that the differential expression of these two proteins might regulate nutrient uptake during intracellular E. chaffeensis development at both temperatures.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jb.02017-07
Ending Page	3605
Page Count	9
Starting Page	3597
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00219193
e-ISSN	10985530
Journal	Journal of Bacteriology
Issue Number	10
Volume Number	190
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Publisher Date	2008-05-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Subject Keyword	Molecular Biology Microbiology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Molecular Biology Microbiology

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