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Construction, expression, and localization of a CycA::PhoA fusion protein in Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Escherichia coli.

Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 61801.

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We demonstrated the utility of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase, encoded by phoA, as a reporter molecule for genetic fusions in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. A portion of the R. sphaeroides cycA gene was fused to phoA, yielding a fusion protein comprising the putative signal sequence and first 10 amino acids of the cytochrome c2 apoprotein joined to the sixth amino acid of alkaline phosphatase. The fusion protein was efficiently transported to the periplasm of R. sphaeroides as determined by enzyme activity, Western immunoblot analysis, and immunogold electron microscopy. We also documented the ability of an R. sphaeroides mutant, RS104, with gross defects in photosynthetic membrane morphology to efficiently recognize and translocate the fusion protein to the periplasmic compartment. The inclusion of 500 base pairs of R. sphaeroides DNA in cis to the cycA structural gene resulted in a 2.5-fold increase in alkaline phosphatase activity in photosynthetically grown cells compared with the activity in aerobically grown cells, demonstrating that the fusion protein is regulated in a manner similar to that of cytochrome c2 regulation. We also constructed two pUC19-based plasmids suitable for the construction of translational fusions to phoA. In these plasmids, translational fusions of phoA to the gene under consideration can be made in all three reading frames, thus facilitating construction and expression of fusion protein systems utilizing phoA.

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