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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2000, p. 2687-2695, Vol. 182, No. 10
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Deletion Analysis of the Escherichia coli Taurine and Alkanesulfonate Transport Systems

Eric Eichhorn, Jan R. van der Ploeg, and Thomas Leisinger*

Institut für Mikrobiologie, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Received 23 December 1999/Accepted 16 February 2000

The Escherichia coli tauABCD and ssuEADCB gene clusters are required for the utilization of taurine and alkanesulfonates as sulfur sources and are expressed only under conditions of sulfate or cysteine starvation. tauD and ssuD encode an alpha -ketoglutarate-dependent taurine dioxygenase and a reduced flavin mononucleotide-dependent alkanesulfonate monooxygenase, respectively. These enzymes are responsible for the desulfonation of taurine and alkanesulfonates. The amino acid sequences of SsuABC and TauABC exhibit similarity to those of components of the ATP-binding cassette transporter superfamily, suggesting that two uptake systems for alkanesulfonates are present in E. coli. Chromosomally located in-frame deletions of the tauABC and ssuABC genes were constructed in E. coli strain EC1250, and the growth properties of the mutants were studied to investigate the requirement for the TauABC and SsuABC proteins for growth on alkanesulfonates as sulfur sources. Complementation analysis of in-frame deletion mutants confirmed that the growth phenotypes obtained were the result of the in-frame deletions constructed. The range of substrates transported by these two uptake systems was largely reflected in the substrate specificities of the TauD and SsuD desulfonation systems. However, certain known substrates of TauD were transported exclusively by the SsuABC system. Mutants in which only formation of hybrid transporters was possible were unable to grow with sulfonates, indicating that the individual components of the two transport systems were not functionally exchangeable. The TauABCD and SsuEADCB systems involved in alkanesulfonate uptake and desulfonation thus are complementary to each other at the levels of both transport and desulfonation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut für Mikrobiologie, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. Phone: 41 1 632 33 24. Fax: 41 1 632 11 48. E-mail: leisinger{at}micro.biol.ethz.ch.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2000, p. 2687-2695, Vol. 182, No. 10
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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