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  • Title: Tyrosine phosphorylation of the tetragonal paracrystalline array of Aeromonas hydrophila: molecular cloning and high-level expression of the S-layer protein gene.
    Author: Thomas SR, Trust TJ.
    Journal: J Mol Biol; 1995 Feb 03; 245(5):568-81. PubMed ID: 7844827.
    Abstract:
    High virulence strains of the fish pathogenic bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila produce a tetragonally arranged paracrystalline surface protein array (S-layer). The gene (ahsA) encoding the S-protein subunit of A. hydrophila TF7 was cloned into lambda EMBL 3, and sub-cloned into pUC 18. Transformation into Escherichia coli led to stable high-level expression of full-size S-protein under the control of its native promoter. The DNA sequence revealed a 1406 base-pair open reading frame encoding a protein consisting of a 19 amino acid residue signal peptide, and a 448 residue 45,400 Da molecular mass mature protein with a predicted isoelectric point (pI) of 6.72 compared with the measured M(r) of 52,000 and pI of 4.6. This suggested that the S-protein was post-translationally modified and in vivo cell labelling with [32P]orthophosphate, acid phosphatase digestion of S-protein, ascending thin-layer chromatography of partially acid hydrolysed S-protein and Western blot analysis with monoclonal anti-phosphotyrosine antibody showed that the S-protein of strain TF7 contained phosphotyrosine. S-proteins produced by the other strains of motile aeromonads tested also reacted with this anti-phosphotyrosine antibody. Cell fractionation studies employing plasmid-encoded ahsA showed that in A. hydrophila the S-protein subunits were secreted across the outer membrane by the native S-protein secretion pathway, while in E. coli and A. salmonicida the cloned A. hydrophila S-protein inserted into the outer membrane of the foreign host. These findings indicate that the process employed to translocate Aeromonas S-proteins across the outer membrane is highly specific.
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