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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2005, p. 1959-1965, Vol. 187, No. 6
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.6.1959-1965.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Function and Expression of an N-Acetylneuraminic Acid-Inducible Outer Membrane Channel in Escherichia coli

Guy Condemine,1* Catherine Berrier,2 Jacqueline Plumbridge,3 and Alexandre Ghazi2

Unité Microbiologie et Génétique, UMR-CNRS-INSA-UCB 5122, Villeurbanne,1 Groupe Canaux Ioniques, UMR-CNRS 8616, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay,2 Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique UPR-CNRS 9073, Paris, France3

Received 3 December 2004/ Accepted 8 December 2004

The Escherichia coli yjhA (renamed nanC) gene encodes a protein of the KdgM family of outer membrane-specific channels. It is transcribed divergently from fimB, a gene involved in the site-specific inversion of the region controlling transcription of the fimbrial structural genes but is separated from it by one of the largest intergenic regions in E. coli. We show that nanC expression is induced by N-acetylneuraminic acid and modulated by N-acetylglucosamine. This regulation occurs via the NanR and NagC regulators, which also control fimB expression. nanC expression is also activated by the regulators cyclic AMP-catabolite activator protein, OmpR, and CpxR. When the NanC protein was reconstituted into liposomes, it formed channels with a conductance of 450 pS at positive potential and 300 to 400 pS at negative potential in 800 mM KCl. The channels had a weak anionic selectivity. In an ompR background, where the general porins OmpF and OmpC are absent, NanC is required for growth of E. coli on N-acetylneuraminic acid as the sole carbon source. All these results suggest that NanC is an N-acetylneuraminic acid outer membrane channel protein.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité Microbiologie et Génétique, UMR5122, Batiment Lwoff, 10 rue Raphael Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne, France. Phone: 33 472 44 58 27. Fax: 33 472 43 15 84. E-mail: guy.condemine{at}insa-lyon.fr.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2005, p. 1959-1965, Vol. 187, No. 6
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.6.1959-1965.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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