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J. Bacteriol., Apr 1997, 2668-2677, Vol 179, No. 8
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Transposon mutagenesis reinforces the correlation between Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytoskeletal protein HMW2 and cytadherence

DC Krause, T Proft, CT Hedreyda, H Hilbert, H Plagens and R Herrmann
Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602, USA. dkrause@uga.cc.uga.edu

A new genetic locus associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae cytadherence was previously identified by transposon mutagenesis with Tn4001. This locus maps approximately 160 kbp from the genes encoding cytadherence- associated proteins HMW1 and HMW3, and yet insertions therein result in loss of these proteins and a hemadsorption-negative (HA-) phenotype, prompting the designation cytadherence-regulatory locus (crl). In the current study, passage of transformants in the absence of antibiotic selection resulted in loss of the transposon, a wild-type protein profile, and a HA+ phenotype, underscoring the correlation between crl and M. pneumoniae cytadherence. Nucleotide sequence analysis of crl revealed open reading frames (ORFs) orfp65, orfp216, orfp41, and orfp24, arranged in tandem and flanked by a promoter-like and a terminator-like sequence, suggesting a single transcriptional unit, the P65 operon. The 5' end of orfp65 mRNA was mapped by primer extension, and a likely promoter was identified just upstream. The product of each ORF was identified by using antisera prepared against fusion proteins. The previously characterized surface protein P65 is encoded by orfp65, while the 190,000 Mr cytadherence-associated protein HMW2 is a product of orfp216. Proteins with sizes of 47,000 and 41,000 Mr and unknown function were identified for orfp41 and orfp24, respectively. Structural analyses of HMW2 predict a periodicity highly characteristic of a coiled-coil conformation and five leucine zipper motifs, indicating that HMW2 probably forms dimers in vivo, which is consistent with a structural role in cytadherence. Each transposon insertion mapped to orfp216 but affected the levels of all products of the P65 operon. HMW2 is thought to form a disulfide-linked dimer, formerly designated HMW5, and examination of an hmw2 deletion mutant confirms that HMW5 is a product of the hmw2 gene.


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