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The Agrobacterium tumefaciens virB7 gene product, a proposed component of the T-complex transport apparatus, is a membrane-associated lipoprotein exposed at the periplasmic surface.

D Fernandez, T A Dang, G M Spudich, X R Zhou, B R Berger, P J Christie
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Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA.
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Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA.
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DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3156-3167.1996
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The Agrobacterium tumefaciens virB7 gene product contains a typical signal sequence ending with a consensus signal peptidase II cleavage site characteristic of bacterial lipoproteins. VirB7 was shown to be processed as a lipoprotein by (i) in vivo labeling of native VirB7 and a VirB7::PhoA fusion with [3H]palmitic acid and (ii) inhibition of VirB7 processing by globomycin, a known inhibitor of signal peptidase II. A VirB7 derivative sustaining a Ser substitution for the invariant Cys-15 residue within the signal peptidase II cleavage site could not be visualized immunologically and failed to complement a delta virB7 mutation, establishing the importance of this putative lipid attachment site for VirB7 maturation and function. VirB7 partitioned predominantly with outer membrane fractions from wild-type A348 cells as well as a delta virB operon derivative transformed with a virB7 expression plasmid. Expression of virB7 fused to phoA, the alkaline phosphatase gene of Escherichia coli, gave rise to high alkaline phosphatase activities in E. coli and A. tumefaciens cells, providing genetic evidence for the export of VirB7 in these hosts. VirB7 was shown to be intrinsically resistant to proteinase K; by contrast, a VirB7::PhoA derivative was degraded by proteinase K treatment of A. tumefaciens spheroplasts and remained intact upon treatment of whole cells. Together, the results of these studies favor a model in which VirB7 is topologically configured as a monotopic protein with its amino terminus anchored predominantly to the outer membrane and with its hydrophilic carboxyl domain located in the periplasmic space. Parallel studies of VirB5, VirB8, VirB9, and VirB10 established that each of these membrane-associated proteins also contains a large periplasmic domain whereas VirB11 resides predominantly or exclusively within the interior of the cell.

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The Agrobacterium tumefaciens virB7 gene product, a proposed component of the T-complex transport apparatus, is a membrane-associated lipoprotein exposed at the periplasmic surface.
D Fernandez, T A Dang, G M Spudich, X R Zhou, B R Berger, P J Christie
Journal of Bacteriology Jun 1996, 178 (11) 3156-3167; DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3156-3167.1996

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The Agrobacterium tumefaciens virB7 gene product, a proposed component of the T-complex transport apparatus, is a membrane-associated lipoprotein exposed at the periplasmic surface.
D Fernandez, T A Dang, G M Spudich, X R Zhou, B R Berger, P J Christie
Journal of Bacteriology Jun 1996, 178 (11) 3156-3167; DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.11.3156-3167.1996
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