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Genetic analyses of processing involving C-terminal cleavage in penicillin-binding protein 3 of Escherichia coli
Author(s) -
Hiroshi Hara,
Yukinobu Nishimura,
Junichi Kato,
Hirotoshi Suzuki,
Hiromich Nagasawa,
Ayano Suzuki,
Yukinori Hirota
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.652
H-Index - 246
eISSN - 1067-8832
pISSN - 0021-9193
DOI - 10.1128/jb.171.11.5882-5889.1989
Subject(s) - biology , cysteine , escherichia coli , penicillin binding proteins , mutant , biochemistry , signal peptide , peptide sequence , cleavage (geology) , plasmid , peptide , residue (chemistry) , microbiology and biotechnology , gene , enzyme , paleontology , fracture (geology)
The processing of Escherichia coli penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP 3) was investigated by gene manipulation for producing hybrid and truncated PBP 3 molecules. The hybrid PBP 3 was processed when the N-terminal 40 residues of PBP 3 were replaced by the murein lipoprotein signal peptide which lacked the cysteine residue for processing and followed by seven extra linker residues. In contrast, the PBP 3 molecules truncated at Thr-560 (28-residue deletion) or at Thr-497 (91-residue deletion) were not processed, and those truncated at Phe-576 (12-residue deletion) were processed at a greatly reduced rate. The results indicate that the C-terminal part, rather than the N-terminal part, is involved in the processing. This was supported by the result that the purified mature PBP 3 retained the complete N-terminal sequence with Met for translation initiation. The cleavage at the C-terminal region was shown by the loss of [35S]cysteine label when the cysteine-free hybrid PBP 3 joined to a cysteine-rich extra peptide tail was processed into the mature form. Confirmative assays for processing of PBP 3 were aided by a newly found prc mutant, defective in the processing involving the C-terminal region. A plasmid that directs PBP 3 truncated at Thr-560 complemented a thermosensitive PBP 3 mutation, but the truncated product was unstable in vivo. This suggests the importance of C-terminal hydrophobic regions that terminate at Leu-558 to PBP 3 functioning and the requirement of further-distal peptides for the stability of PBP 3.

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