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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 293, 期 2-3, 页码 153-165出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1078/1438-4221-00258
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H. pylori; shuttle mutagenesis; TnMax6; TnMax9; type IV secretion system; protease digestion
The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is naturally competent for genetic transformation. The H. pylori comB gene cluster encodes the VirB4-homologous ATPase ComB4 and the structural proteins ComB7-ComB10, which share significant sequence identity to the Agrobacterium tumefaciens virB-encoded type IV secretion system. To study the topology of the ComB7 - 10 proteins, we applied TnMax transposon mutagenesis by generating fusions of ComB proteins with mature beta-lactamase (BlaM) or alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). Our data show that the putative lipoprotein ComB7 is secreted and is found membrane-attached, probably by its lipid anchor. According to our topology mapping ComB8 is a bitopic membrane protein with a short N-terminal portion in the cytoplasm and the remainder of the protein expanding into the periplasmic space. ComB9 was verified as a periplasmic protein, tightly attached to the membrane. The N-terminus of ComB10 is anchored in the cytoplasmic membrane and the maj. or portion of the protein, including a putative coiled-coil domain, is located in the periplasm. Limited protease digestion and protein extraction under different salt and pH conditions confirmed the periplasmic localization and the tight membrane association of the ComB protein complex. A hypothetical model of the ComB DNA transformation pore in H. pylori is presented.
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