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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 183, 期 19, 页码 5554-5561出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.19.5554-5561.2001
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32 GM007499, 5 T32 GM07499] Funding Source: Medline
Lipid A, a potent endotoxin which can cause septic shock, anchors lipopolysaccharide (LPS) into the outer leaflet of the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. MsbB acylates (KDO)(2)-(lauroyl)-lipid IV-A with myristate during lipid A biosynthesis. Reports of knockouts of the msbB gene describe effects on virulence but describe no evidence of growth defects in Escherichia coli K-12 or Salmonella. Our data confirm the general lack of growth defects in msbB E. coli K-12. In contrast, msbB Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium exhibits marked sensitivity to galactose-MacConkey and 6 mM EGTA media. At 37 degreesC in Luria-Bertani (LB) broth, msbB Salmonella cells elongate, form bulges, and grow slowly. msbB Salmonella grow well on LB-no salt (LB-0) agar; however, under specific shaking conditions in LB-0 broth, many msbB Salmonella cells lyse during exponential growth and a fraction of the cells form filaments. msbB Salmonella grow with a near-wild-type growth rate in MSB (LB-0 containing Mg2+ and Ca2+) broth (23 to 42 degreesC). Extragenic compensatory mutations, which partially suppress the growth defects, spontaneously occur at high frequency, and mutants can be isolated on media selective for faster growing derivatives. One of the suppressor mutations maps at 19.8 centisomes and is a recessive IS10 insertional mutation in somA, a gene of unknown function which corresponds to ybjX in E. coli. In addition, random TWO mutagenesis carried out in an unsuppressed msbB strain produced a set of TWO inserts, not in msbB or somA, that correlate with different suppressor phenotypes. Thus, insertional mutations, in somA and other genes, can suppress the msbB phenotype.
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