A binding-lipoprotein-dependent oligopeptide transport system in Streptococcus gordonii essential for uptake of hexa- and heptapeptides.
AUTOR(ES)
Jenkinson, H F
RESUMO
Cells of the oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii express three cytoplasmic membrane-bound lipoproteins with apparent molecular masses of 76 to 78 kDa that are the products of three genes (designated hppA, hppG, and hppH). The lipoproteins are immunologically cross-reactive, contain 60% or more identical amino acid residues, and are highly similar to the AmiA, AliA (PlpA), and AliB substrate-binding protein components of an oligopeptide permease in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Insertional inactivation of the hppA or hppH gene resulted in loss of the ability of S. gordonii cells to utilize specific peptides of five to seven amino acid residues for growth. An insertion within the COOH-terminal coding region of hppG that caused apparent truncation of the HppG polypeptide had a similar effect; however, S. gordonii mutants in which HppG polypeptide production was abolished were still able to grow on all oligopeptides tested. Inactivation of hppA gene (but not inactivation of the hppG or hppH gene) caused reduced growth rate of cells in complex medium, slowed the rate of development of competence for transformation, reduced the efficiency of transformation, and increased the resistance of cells to aminopterin. These results suggest that the formation of a solute-binding-protein complex consisting of at least the HppA and the HppH lipopolypeptides is necessary for binding and subsequent uptake of primarily hexa- or heptapeptides by a Hpp (Hexa-heptapeptide permease) system in S. gordonii. In addition, Hpp may play a role in the control of metabolic functions associated with the growth of streptococcal cells on complex nitrogen sources and with the development of competence.
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