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The major proteins of the Escherichia coli outer cell envelope membrane: Evidence for the structural gene of protein II
Author(s) -
Henning Ulf,
Hindennach Ingrid,
Haller Ingo
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(76)80168-8
Subject(s) - planck , citation , physics , philosophy , library science , astrophysics , computer science
The outer cell envelope membrane of E. coli contains a set of major (major concerning their cellular concentrations) proteins in a mol. wt. range between 10 000 and 38 000; the present knowledge on these proteins has recently been briefly summarized [ 11. One of these proteins we have named protein II*. We have reported that selection for resistance to a certain phage (phage TuII*) can yield mutants that no longer possess protein II* [2] or produce this protein in an altered form [I] , and we have now established that the phage uses protein II* as a receptor (I. Sonntag and U. Henning, in preparation). Here we describe the chromosomal location of such phage resistant mutations and we provide evidence that this locus, provisionally called fut, appears to represent the structural gene for protein II*.