MEMBRANE TOPOLOGY OF THE METHYL-ACCEPTING CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN DCRA FROM DESULFOVIBRIO-VULGARIS HILDENBOROUGH

被引:9
作者
DECKERS, HM
VOORDOUW, G
机构
[1] Division of Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Calgary, Calgary, T2N 1N4, Alberta
来源
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY | 1994年 / 65卷 / 01期
关键词
ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; GENE FUSION; DESULFOVIBRIO; CHEMOTAXIS; DCRA;
D O I
10.1007/BF00878273
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Alkaline phosphatase fusions were used to study the membrane topology of DcrA, a protein of 668 amino acids from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, which has two potentially membrane-spanning hydrophobic sequences at residues 11 to 29 and 188 to 207. A fusion at amino acid residue 170 in the proposed periplasmic domain exhibited high alkaline phosphatase activity, while low activity was observed for a fusion at amino acid residue 284 in the proposed cytoplasmic domain. The data support a topological model for DcrA similar to that of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins of the enteric bacteria.
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