Identification and characterization of an outer membrane protein, OmpX, in Escherichia coli that is homologous to a family of outer membrane proteins including Ail of Yersinia enterocolitica.
AUTOR(ES)
Mecsas, J
RESUMO
We previously reported that a region of the Escherichia coli chromosome at 18 min increased E sigma E activity when cloned in multicopy (J. Mecsas, P. E. Rouviere, J. W. Erickson, T. J. Donohue, and C. A. Gross, Genes Dev. 7:2618-2628, 1993). In the present report, we identify and characterize the gene responsible for the increase in E sigma E activity. This gene is in a monocistronic operon with two promoters and a rho-independent terminator. Sequence analysis of this gene indicated that it encodes an outer membrane protein which is 83% identical to OmpX in Enterobacter cloacae, leading us to name this gene ompX. There are four other proteins that are homologous to OmpX. Several of these proteins, Ail of Yersinia enterocolitica and Rck and PagC of Salmonella typhimurium, have properties that allow bacteria to adhere to mammalian cells, survive exposure to human serum, and/or survive within macrophages. We therefore characterized strains deleted for ompX for their growth phenotypes, E sigma E activity, serum resistance, and adherence to mammalian cells. No differences in growth rates, serum resistance, or adherence to mammalian cells were observed; however, E sigma E activity was dependent on expression of OmpX in certain strain backgrounds.
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