Mechanism of export of colicin E1 and colicin E3.
AUTOR(ES)
Jakes, K S
RESUMO
The mechanism of export of colicins E1 and E3 was examined. Neither colicin E1, colicin E3, Nor colicin E3 immunity protein appears to be synthesized as a precursor protein with an amino-terminal extension. Instead, the colicins, as well as the colicin E3 immunity protein, appear to leave the cells where they are made, long after their synthesis, by a nonspecific mechanism which results in increased permeability of the producing cells. Induction of ColE3-containing cells with mitomycin C leads to actual lysis of those cells, as some time after synthesis of the colicin E3 and its immunity protein has been completed. Induction of ColE1-containing cells results in increased permeability of the cells, but not in actual lysis, and most of the colicin E1 produced never leaves the producing cells. Intracellular proteins such as elongation factor G can be found outside of colicinogenic cells after mitomycin C induction, along with the colicin. Until substantial increases in permeability occur, most of the colicin remains cell associated, in the soluble cytosol, rather than in a membrane-associated form.
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