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J Bacteriol. 1985 September; 163(3): 870-876

Evidence for RecA protein association with the cell membrane and for changes in the levels of major outer membrane proteins in SOS-induced Escherichia coli cells.

ABSTRACT

Membrane fractions from Escherichia coli cells expressing DNA damage-inducible (SOS) functions contain elevated quantities of RecA protein (L. J. Gudas and A. B. Pardee, J. Mol. Biol. 101:459-477, 1976). We used two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to separate membrane proteins from several strains to determine whether this effect is an artifact due to contamination of membranes during preparation by the large amount of cytoplasmic RecA present in SOS-induced cells. We found that amplification of RecA+ protein without a DNA-damaging treatment does not result in increased RecA-membrane association, whether recA is depressed specifically by an operator-constitutive recA allele or coordinately with other SOS genes by a lexA mutation that inactivates their common repressor. In contrast, large amounts of RecA appear in membrane fractions from undamaged cells of an SOS-constitutive strain carrying recA730, which encodes a spontaneously SOS-activated RecA. We conclude that the increased association of RecA with the membrane fraction requires the presence of the activated form of RecA, and that this association may contribute significantly to the SOS response. We describe also striking effects of SOS expression on the levels of the outer membrane proteins OmpA, OmpC, and OmpF.

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