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PMID:3311813

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Citation

Ried, G and Henning, U (1987) A unique amino acid substitution in the outer membrane protein OmpA causes conjugation deficiency in Escherichia coli K-12. FEBS Lett. 223:387-90

Abstract

The outer membrane protein OmpA of E. coli K-12 can serve as a receptor for phages and is required for stabilizing mating aggregates during F'-mediated conjugation. Selection for resistance to OmpA-specific phages yields mutants with alterations in the protein at four cell surface exposed sites. It is shown that conjugation deficiency can be caused by apparently only one type of amino acid substitution at one of these sites, the replacement of glycine-154 by aspartic acid. This suggests that, in contrast to binding of phages, a ligand of the donor cell recognizes only a very small area of the protein.

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Keywords

Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/physiology; Conjugation, Genetic; DNA Mutational Analysis; Escherichia coli/physiology; Structure-Activity Relationship

Significance

Annotations

Gene product Qualifier GO Term Evidence Code with/from Aspect Extension Notes Status

ECOLI:OMPA

involved_in

GO:0000746: conjugation

ECO:0000315: mutant phenotype evidence used in manual assertion

P

Seeded From UniProt

complete


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