Amino acid replacement in a mutant lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane.

AUTOR(ES)

Inouye, S

RESUMO

The primary structure of a mutant lipoprotein of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli was investigated. This mutant was previously described as a mutant that forms a dimer of the lipoprotein by an S-S bridge (H. Suzuki et al., J. Bacteriol. 127:1494-1501, 1976). The amino acid analysis of the mutant lipoprotein revealed that the mutant lipoprotein had an extra cysteine residue, with concomitant loss of an arginine residue. From the analysis of the mutant lipoprotein revealed that the mutant lipoprotein had an extra cysteine residue, with concomitant loss of an arginine residue. From the analysis of tryptic peptides, it was found that the arginine residue at position 57 was replaced with a cysteine residue. The amino terminal structure of the mutant lipoprotein was found to be glycerylcysteine, as in the case of the wild-type lipoprotein. The present results show that the mutation that was previously determined to map at 36.5 min on the E. coli chromosome occurred in the structure gene (lpp) for the lipoprotein. This was further confirmed by the fact that a merodiploid carrying both lpp+ and lpp produces not only the wild-type lipoprotein but also the mutant lipoprotein.

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