Cloning, Characterization, and Inactivation of the Gene pbpC, Encoding Penicillin-Binding Protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus
AUTOR(ES)
Pinho, Mariana G.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The gene pbpC from Staphylococcus aureus was sequenced: it encodes a 691-amino-acid protein with all of the conserved motifs of a class B high-molecular-weight penicillin-binding protein (PBP), including the transpeptidase conserved motifs SXXK, SXN, and KTG. Insertional inactivation of pbpC and introduction of the intact gene in a laboratory mutant missing PBP 3 showed that the pbpC gene encodes the staphylococcal PBP 3. Inactivation of pbpC caused no detectable change in the muropeptide composition of cell wall peptidoglycan and had only minimum, if any, effect on growth rates, but caused a small but significant decrease in rates of autolysis. Cells of abnormal size and shape and disoriented septa were produced when bacteria with inactivated pbpC were grown in the presence of a sub-MIC of methicillin.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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