Initial characterization of two extracellular autolysins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1.
AUTOR(ES)
Watt, S R
RESUMO
Two extracellular autolysins have been detected in the spent culture supernatants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 by using renaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The two autolysins were isolated from the culture supernatant by trichloroacetic acid precipitation and were shown to have apparent molecular masses of 26 and 29 kDa. The 26-kDa autolysin first appears during the early exponential phase of growth and then declines sharply, while the 29-kDa autolysin first appears in the late exponential phase of growth and continues well into the stationary phase. Fractionation of whole cells indicated that the 26-kDa enzyme was also localized within the periplasm, with a lesser amount of activity associated with the cytoplasmic membrane. The 29-kDa autolytic activity was distributed within the cell equally between the periplasm and the cytoplasmic membrane. The pH optima of the isolated 26- and 29-kDa autolysins are 6.0 and 5.0, respectively. Further evidence from both protease susceptibility and inhibition studies confirms that these two extracellular autolysins isolated from P. aeruginosa PAO1 are separate and distinct.
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