Proton motive force-dependent and -independent protein translocation revealed by an efficient in vitro assay system of Escherichia coli - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1989 Jan 25;264(3):1723-8.

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Proton motive force-dependent and -independent protein translocation revealed by an efficient in vitro assay system of Escherichia coli

H Yamada et al. J Biol Chem. 1989.

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Abstract

Inverted membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli spheroplasts were fractionated by means of sucrose gradient centrifugation, and a vesicle preparation exhibiting efficient and quantitative translocation of secretory proteins was obtained. The translocation of OmpA and an uncleavable model protein, uncleavable OmpF-Lpp, took place almost completely in 2-3 min, whereas that of OmpF-Lpp, a chimeric secretory protein, required 20 min for completion. The requirement of the proton motive force (delta muH+) for in vitro translocation was then examined with these three proteins. The translocation of all these proteins was significantly inhibited by the addition of carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) or when stripped membrane vesicles lacking F1-ATPase were used, suggesting that delta muH+ generally participates in the translocation reaction. The inhibition was complete with OmpF-Lpp, whereas significant amounts of uncleavable OmpF-Lpp and OmpA were translocated at a slower rate even with the stripped membrane vesicles in the presence of a high concentration of carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. The delta muH+-independent translocation was inhibited by a nonhydrolyzable ATP analogue. These results indicate that although translocation of OmpF-Lpp obligatory requires delta muH+, the latter two proteins can be translocated in not only a delta muH+-dependent manner but also a delta mu H+-independent manner.

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