Excretion of endogenous cadaverine leads to a decrease in porin-mediated outer membrane permeability

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 791-798

  Samartzidou, Hrissi ^a   Delcour, Anne H ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CADAVERINE; CEFALORIDINE; LYSINE; POLYAMINE; PORIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECARBOXYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXCRETION; ION TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032944380     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.3.791-798.1999     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Auger, E. P., K. E. Redding, T. Plumb, L. C. Childs, S.-Y. Meng, and G. N. Bennett. 1989. Construction of lac fusions to the inducible arginine and lysine decarboxylase genes of Escherichia coli K-12. Mol. Microbiol. 3:609-620.
2. Bennett, G. Personal communication.
3. Benz, R. 1988. Structure and function of porins from Gram-negative bacteria. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 42:359-393.
4. Bolivar, F., and K. Backman. 1979. Plasmids of Escherichia coli as cloning vectors. Methods Enzymol. 68:245-267.
5. Buch, J. K., and S. M. Boyle. 1985. Biosynthetic arginine decarboxylase in Escherichia coli is synthesized as a precursor and located in the cell envelope. J. Bacteriol. 163:522-527.
6. Bullock, W. O., J. M. Fernandez, and J. M. Short. 1987. XL1-blue: a high efficiency plasmid transforming recA Escherichia coli strain with beta-galactosidase selection. BioTechniques 5:376-378.
7. Datta, N., R. W. Hedges, E. J. Shaw, R. B. Sykes, and M. H. Richmond. 1971. Properties of an R factor from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 108: 1244-1249.
8. delaVega, A. L., and A. H. Delcour. 1995. Cadaverine induces closing of E. coli porins. EMBO J. 14:6058-6065.
9. delaVega, A. L., and A. H. Delcour. 1996. Polyamines decrease Escherichia coli outer membrane permeability. J. Bacteriol. 178:3715-3721.
10. Delcour, A. H. 1997. Function and modulation of bacterial porins: insights from electrophysiology. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 151:115-123.
11. Dell, C. L., M. N. Neely, and E. R. Olson. 1994. Altered pH and lysine signalling mutants of cadC, a gene encoding a membrane-bound transcriptional activator of the Escherichia coli cadBA operon. Mol. Microbiol. 14:7-16.
12. + channels. Science 266:1068-1072.
13. Hamilton, C. M., M. Aldea, B. K. Washburn, P. Babitzke, and S. R. Kushner. 1989. New method for generating deletions and gene replacements in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 171:4617-4622.
14. Hancock, R. E. W., and A. Bell. 1988. Antibiotic uptake into Gram-negative bacteria. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 7:713-720.
15. Harder, K., H. Nikaido, and M. Matsuhashi. 1981. Mutants of Escherichia coli that are resistant to certain beta-lactam compounds lack the ompF porin. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 20:549-552.
16. Hedges, R. W., N. Datta, P. Kontomichalou, and J. T. Smith. 1974. Molecular specificities of R factor-determined beta-lactamases: correlation with plasmid compatibility. J. Bacteriol. 117:56-62.
17. Heyde, M., and R. Portalier. 1987. Regulation of major outer membrane porin proteins of Escherichia coli K-12 by pH. Mol. Gen. Genet. 208:511-517.
18. Hille, B. 1992. Ionic channels of excitable membranes. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Mass.
19. + channels: evidence for a trap door mechanisms of activation gating. J. Gen. Physiol. 109:527-535.
20. Ingham, C., M. Buechner, and J. Adler. 1990. Effect of outer membrane permeability on chemotaxis in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 172:3577-3583.
21. Iyer, R., and A. H. Delcour. 1997. Complex inhibition of OmpF and OmpC bacterial porins by polyamines. J. Biol. Chem. 272:18595-18601.
22. Iyer, R., Z. Wu, P. M. Woster, and A. H. Delcour. Molecular properties of inhibitors of the Escherichia coli OmpF porin. Submitted for publication.
23. Johnson, T. D. 1996. Modulation of channel function by polyamines. Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 17:22-27.
24. Kashiwagi, K., T. Suzuki, F. Suzuki, T. Furuchi, H. Kobayashi, and K. Igarashi. 1991. Coexistence of the genes for putrescine transport protein and ornithine decarboxylase at 16 min on Escherichia coli chromosome. J. Biol. Chem. 266:20922-20927.
25. Kashiwagi, K., R. Pistocchi, S. Shibuya, S. Sugiyama, K. Morikawa, and K. Igarashi. 1996. Spermidine-preferential uptake system in Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 271:12205-12208.
26. Koski, P., and M. Vaara. 1991. Polyamines as constituents of the outer membranes of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 173:3695-3699.
27. Liu, N., and A. H. Delcour. 1998. Inhibitory effect of acidic pH on OmpC porin: wildtype and mutant studies. FEBS Lett. 434:160-164.
28. Lopatin, A., E. N. Makhina, and C. G. Nichols. 1994. Potassium channel blocking by cytoplasmic polyamines as the mechanism of intrinsic rectification. Nature 372:366-369.
29. Meng, S.-Y., and G. N. Bennett. 1992. Nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli cad operon: a system for neutralization of low extracellular pH. J. Bacteriol. 174:2659-2669.
30. Meng, S. Y., and G. N. Bennett. 1992. Regulation of the Escherichia coli cad operon: location of a site required for acid induction. J. Bacteriol. 174:2670-2678.
31. Munro, G. F., K. Hercules, J. Morgan, and W. Sauerbier. 1972. Dependence of the putrescine content of Escherichia coli on the osmotic strength of the medium. J. Biol. Chem. 247:1272-1280.
32. Neely, M. N., C. L. Dell, and E. R. Olson. 1994. Roles of LysP and CadC in mediating the lysine requirement for acid induction of the Escherichia coli cad operon. J. Bacteriol. 176:3278-3285.
33. Neely, M. N., and E. R. Olson. 1996. Kinetics of expression of the Escherichia coli cad operon as a function of pH and lysine. J. Bacteriol. 178:5522-5528.
34. Nikaido, H. 1996. Outer membrane, p. 29-47. In F. C. Neidhardt, R. Curtiss III, J. L. Ingraham, E. C. C. Lin, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik, W. S. Reznikoff, M. Riley. M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
35. Nikaido, H., S. A. Song, L. Shaltiel, and M. Nurminen. 1977. Outer membrane of Salmonella, XIV. Reduced transmembrane diffusion rates in porin-deficient mutants. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 76:324-330.
36. Nikaido, H., E. Y. Rosenberg, and J. Foulds. 1983. Porin channels in Escherichia coli: studies with β-lactams in intact cells. J. Bacteriol. 153:232-240.
37. Olson, E. 1993. Influence of pH on bacterial gene expression. Mol. Microbiol. 8:5-14.
38. Olson, E. Personal communication.
39. Phan, A. P. H., T. T. Ngo, and H. M. Lenhoff. 1982. Spectrophotometric assay for lysine decarboxylase. Anal. Biochem. 120:193-197.
40. Pratt, L. A., and T. J. Silhavy. 1995. Porin regulon of Escherichia coli, p. 105-127. In J. A. Hoch and T. J. Silhavy (ed.), Two-component signal transduction. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
41. Saint, N., A. Prilipov, A. Hardmeyer, K.-L. Lou, T. Schirmer, and J. P. Rosenbusch. 1996. Replacement of the sole histidynyl residue in OmpF porin from E. coli by threonine (H21T) does not affect channel structure and function. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 223:118-122.
42. Slonczewski, J. L., and J. W. Foster. 1996. pH-regulated genes and survival at extreme pH, p. 1539-1549. In F. C. Neidhardt, R. Curtiss III, J. L. Ingraham, E. C. C. Lin, K. B. Low, B. Magasanik, W. S. Reznikoff, M. Riley, M. Schaechter, and H. E. Umbarger (ed.), Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
43. Watson, N., D. S. Dunyak, E. L. Rosey, J. L. Slonczewski, and E. R. Olson. 1992. Identification of elements involved in transcriptional regulation of the Escherichia coli cad operon by external pH. J. Bacteriol. 174:530-540.