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J Bacteriol. 1989 April; 171(4): 1817-1824

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Regions of toxin A involved in toxin A excretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642.

ABSTRACT

Toxin A is excreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a mature 66,583-dalton protein. In this study, we used molecular cloning and deletion analysis to define specific regions of the toxin molecule involved in its excretion. Subclones that express either the amino terminus, the carboxy terminus, or toxin A molecules with internal deletions were constructed. The hypotoxigenic mutant PAO-T1 was used as a host for the expression of the toxin constructs. When overexpressed (by the presence of extra copies of the toxin A-positive regulatory gene, regA, in trans), toxin A-cross-reactive materials produced by most of these constructs were detected in the supernatant of PAO-T1. The supernatant of P. aeruginosa PAO-T1 contained proteolytic activity that degraded toxin A-derived products but not the intact toxin molecule. A single SalI intragenic deletion (coding for the leader peptide, the first 30 amino acids, and the last 305 amino acids of the toxin) resulted in a relatively stable product in the supernatant of PAO-T1. The product of the carboxy terminus construct (which codes for the last 305 amino acids of the toxin) was detected in the lysate of PAO-T1 only. The data suggest that the amino terminus region of toxin A (the leader peptide plus the first 30 amino acid of the mature protein) is sufficient for its excretion, and that a second region, amino acids 309 through 413, protects an internally truncated toxin A molecule from the proteolytic activity in the supernatant of P. aeruginosa PAO-T1.

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