The S-layer protein of Corynebacterium glutamicum is anchored to the cell wall by its C-terminal hydrophobic domain

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 483-492

  Chami, Mohamed ^a   Bayan, Nicolas ^a   Peyret, Jean Louis ^a   Gulik Krzywicki, Thaddée ^a   Leblon, Gérard ^a   Shechter, Emanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 0031014881     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.d01-1868.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Aggerbeck, L.P., and Gulik-Krzywicki, T. (1986) Studies of lipoproteins by freeze-fracture and etching electron microscopy. Meth Enzymol 128: 457-472.
2. Baumeister, W., Karrenberg, F., Rachel, R., Engel, A., Ten Heggeier, B., and Saxton, W.O. (1982) The major cell envelope protein of Micrococcus radiodurans (R1): structural and chemical characterization. Eur J Biochem 125: 535-544.
3. Besnard, M., Martinac, B., and Ghazi, A. (1996) Voltage-dependant porin-like ion channels in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii. J Biol Chem, in press.
4. Beveridge, T.J., and Graham, L.L. (1991) Surface layers of bacteria. Microbiol Rev 55: 684-705.
5. Bonamy, C., Guyonvarch, A., Reyes, O., David, F., and Leblon, G. (1990) Interspecies electro-transformation in Corynebacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 66: 263-270.
6. Bonassie, S., Oreglia, J., Trautwetter, A., and Sicard, A.M. (1990) Isolation and characterization of a restriction and modification deficient mutant of Brevibacterium lactofermentum. FEMS Microbiol Lett 60: 143-146.
7. Brennan, P.J., and Nikaido, H. (1995) The envelope of Mycobacteria. Annu Rev Biochem 64: 29-63.
8. Carl, M., Dobson, M.E., Ching, W.-M., and Dasch, G.A. (1990) Characterization of the gene encoding the protective paracrystalline-surface-layer protein of Rickettsia prowazekii: presence of a truncated identical homolog in Rickettsia typhi. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87: 8237-8241.
9. Chami, M., Bayan, N., Dedieu, J.-C., Leblon, G., Shechter, E., and Gulik-Krzywicki, T. (1995) Organization of the outer layers of the cell envelope of Corynebacterium glutamicum: a combined freeze-etch electron microscopy and biochemical study. Biol Cell 83: 219-229.
10. Chu, S., Cavaignac, S., Feutrier, J., Phipps, B.M., Kostrzynska, M., Kay, W.W., and Trust, T.J. (1991) Structure of the tetragonal surface virulence array protein and gene of Aeromonas salmonicida. J Biol Chem 266: 15258-15265.
11. De Briel, D., Couderc, F., Riegel, P., Jehl, F., and Minck, R. (1992) High-performance liquid chromatography of coronomycolic acids as a tool in identification of Corynebacterium species and related organisms. J Clin Microbiol 30: 1407-1417.
12. De Mot, R., and Vanderleyden, J. (1994) The C-terminal sequence conservation between OmpA-related outer membrane proteins and MotB suggests a common function in both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, possibly in the interaction of these domains with peptidoglycan. Mol Microbiol 12: 333-334.
13. Evenberg, D., and Lugtenberg, B. (1982) Cell surface of the fish pathogenic bacterium Aeromonas salmonicida: II. purification and characterization of a major cell envelope protein related to autoagglutination, adhesion and virulence. Biochim Biophys Acta 684: 249-254.
14. Fujimoto, S., Takade, A., Amako, K., and Blaser, M.J. (1991) Correlation between molecular size of the surface array protein and morphology and antigenicity of the Campylobacter fetus S-layer. Infect Immun 59: 2017-2022.
15. Gulik-Krzywicki, T., and Costello, J. (1978) The use of low temperature X-ray diffraction to evaluate freezing methods used in freeze-fracture electron microscopy. J Microscopy 112: 103-113.
16. Hanahan, D. (1983) Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids. J Mol Biol 166: 557-580.
17. Hastie, A.T., and Brinton, Jr, C.C. (1979) Specific interaction of the tetragonally arrayed protein layer of Bacillus sphaericus with its peptidoglycan sacculus. J Bacteriol 138: 1010-1021.
18. Howard, L., and Tipper, D.J. (1973) A polypeptide bacteriophage receptor: modified cell wall protein subunits in bacteriophage-resistant mutants of Bacillus sphaericus strain P-1. J Bacteriol 113: 1491-1504.
19. Kessel, M., Wildhaber, I., Cohen, S., and Baumeister, W. (1988) Three-dimensional structure of the regular surface glycoprotein layer of Halobacterium volcanii from the dead sea. EMBO J 7: 1549-1554.
20. Kist, M.L., and Murray, R.G.E. (1984) Components of the regular surface array of Aquaspirillum serpens MW5 and their assembly in vitro. J Bacteriol 157: 599-606.
21. Kornberg, R.D., and Darst, S.A. (1991) Two-dimensional crystals of proteins on lipid layers. Curr Opin Struc Biol 1: 642-646.
22. Küpcü, Z., März, L., Messner, P., and Sleytr, U.B. (1984) Evidence for the glycoprotein nature of the crystalline cell wall surface layer of Bacillus stearothermophilus strain NRS2004/3a. FEBS Lett 173: 185-190.
23. Laemmli, U.K. (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227: 680-685.
24. Lechner, J., and Sumper, M. (1987) The primary structure of a procaryotic glycoprotein. J Biol Chem 262: 9724-9729.
25. Lortal, S., van Heijenoort, J., Gruber, K., and Sleytr, U.B. (1992) S-layer of Lactobacillus helveticus ATCC 12046: isolation, chemical characterization and reformation after extraction with lithium chloride. J Gen Microbiol 138: 611-618.
26. Lupas, A., Engelhardt, H., Peters, J., Santarius, U., Volker, S., and Baumeister, W. (1994) Domain structure of the Acetogenium kiwi surface layer revealed by electron crystallography and sequence analysis. J Bacteriol 176: 1224-1233.
27. Mescher, M.F., and Strominger, J.L. (1976) Purification and characterization of a prokaryotic glycoprotein from the cell envelope of Halobacterium salinarium. J Biol Chem 251: 2005-2014.
28. Messner, P., and Sleytr, U.B. (1992) Crystalline bacterial cell-surface layers. Adv Microbiol Physiol 33: 213-275.
29. Nakae, T., Ishii, J., and Tokunaga, M. (1979) Subunit structure of functional porin oligomers that form permeability channels in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 254: 1457-1461.
30. Niederweis, M., Maier, E., Lichtinger, T., Benz, R., and Krämer, R. (1995) Identification of channel-forming activity in the cell wall of Corynebacterium glutamicum. J Bacteriol 177: 5716-5718.
31. Nikaido, H. (1994) Prevention of drug access to bacterial targets: permeability barriers and active efflux. Science 264: 382-388.
32. Peyret, J.L., Bayan, N., Joliff, G., Gulik-Krzywicki, T., Mathieu, L., Shechter, E., and Leblon, G. (1993) Characterization of the cspB gene encoding PS2, an ordered surface-layer protein in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Mol Microbiol 9: 97-109.
33. Pierce, R.J., and Capron, A. (1987) Western blot, principe et méthodologie. In Techniques Biochimiques d'Analyses des Antigènes de membrane. Charron, D. (ed.). Paris: Éditions de l'INSERM, pp. 43-54.
34. Reyes, O., Guyonvarch, A., Bonamy, C., Salti, V., David, F., and Leblon, G. (1991) 'Integron'-bearing vectors: a method suitable for stable chromosomal integration in highly restrictive Corynebacteria. Gene 107: 61-68.
35. Richter, W., Hänel, F., and Hilliger, M. (1985) Freeze-fracture observations of Corynebacterium glutamicum: the occurence of an outer membrane-like structure and the influence of temperature on the cytoplasmic membrane. J Basic Microbiol 25: 527-536.
36. Rose, R. (1988) The nucleotide sequence of pACYC184. Nucl Acids Res 16: 355.
37. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
38. Sleytr, U.B., and Glauert, A.M. (1976) Ultrastructure of the cell walls of two closely related Clostridia that possess different regular arrays of surface subunits. J Bacteriol 126: 869-882.
39. Sleytr, U.B., and Thorne, K.J.I. (1976) Chemical characterization of the regularly arranged surface layers of Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum and Clostridium thermohydrosulphuricum. J Bacteriol 126: 377-383.
40. Sleytr, U.B., Sara, M., Küpcü, Z., and Messner, P. (1986) Structural and chemical characterization of S-layers of selected strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Desulphotomaculum nigrificans. Arch Microbiol 146: 19-24.
41. Sumper, M., Berg, E., Mengele, R., and Strobel, I. (1990) Primary structure and glycosylation of the S-layer protein of Haloferax volcanii. J Bacteriol 172: 7111-7118.
42. Thomas, S., Austin, J.W., McCubbin, W.D., Kay, C.M., and Trust, T.J. (1992) Roles of structural domains in the morphology and surface anchoring of the tetragonal paracrystalline array of Aeromonas hydrophila. J Mol Biol 228: 652-661.
43. Towbin, H., Staehelin, T., and Gordon, J. (1979) Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gel to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 76: 4350-4354.
44. Trias, J., Jarlier, V., and Benz, R. (1992) Porins in the cell wall of mycobacteria. Science 258: 1479-1481.
45. Walker, S.G., Karunaratne, D.N., Ravenscroft, N., and Smit, J. (1994) Characterization of mutants of Caulobacter crescentus defective in surface attachment of the paracrystalline surface layer. J Bacteriol 176: 6312-6323.
46. Wang, E., Garcia, M.M., Blake, M.S., Pei, Z., and Blaser, M.J. (1993) Shift in S-layer protein expression responsible for antigenic variation in Campylobacter fetus. J Bacteriol 175: 4979-4984.
47. Wildhaber, I., and Baumeister, W. (1987) The cell envelope of Thermoproteus tenax: three-dimensional structure of the surface layer and its role in shape maintenance. EMBO J 6: 1475-1480.
48. Yang, L., Pei, Z., Fujimoto, S., and Blaser, M.J. (1992) Reattachment of surface array proteins to Campylobacter fetus cells. J Bacteriol 174: 1258-1267.