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Extracellular release of colicin A is non-specific
D Baty et al. EMBO J. 1987 Aug.
Abstract
The possible involvement of topogenic export sequences within the colicin A polypeptide chain has been investigated. Different constructs have been made using various techniques to introduce deletions in the central and NH2-terminal regions of colicin A. Together, these deletions span the region from amino acid 15 to the end of the protein. None of these regions was found to be required for extracellular release or had any effect on the efficiency of this process. By inserting a termination codon, a Shine-Dalgarno sequence and an initiation codon into the gene for colicin A, the NH2-terminal and central plus COOH-terminal domains could be demonstrated to be released to the same extent when produced as separate polypeptides as when produced as linked ones. The introduction into the COOH-terminal domain of mutations promoting cytoplasmic aggregation had no effect on the secretion of the NH2-terminal polypeptide. These results demonstrated that no specific interaction between the NH2- and COOH-terminal regions of the colicin A polypeptide chain is involved in the release of colicin A. We are led to conclude that there is no topogenic export signal in the polypeptide chain of colicin A involved in the release mechanism. Thus the process is non-specific with respect to the colicin itself and depends solely on the expression of the colicin A lysis protein (Cavard et al., 1985, 1987). The expression of the protein causes the release of not only the colicin but also many other cellular proteins, including beta-lactamase, EF-Tu, and chloramphenicol acetyltransferase.
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