Affiliation:
1. Tupper Research Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
Abstract
Surface receptors for plasminogen are expressed by many gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and may play a role in the dissemination of organisms by binding plasminogen, which upon conversion to plasmin can digest extracellular matrix proteins. Two plasminogen binding proteins have been identified for Borrelia burgdorferi, outer surface protein A and a 70-kDa protein (BPBP). We purified BPBP by plasminogen affinity chromatography and obtained its amino acid sequence by Edman degradation of a tryptic digest. The gene coding for BPBP was isolated from a lambda-ZAP II genomic library with probes developed from sequenced portions of the protein. This gene was expressed in Escherichia coli; the recombinant product was seen by antibody raised against native BPBP and also bound 125I-labeled plasminogen. The experimentally derived amino acid sequences corresponded to the predicted sequence encoded by the BPBP gene. The deduced amino acid sequence for BPBP revealed significant similarity to p30, a 30-kDa protein of B. burgdorferi (54% identity and 65% similarity), to a 60-kDa protein in Borrelia coriaceae (66% identity and 80% similarity), to oligopeptide binding protein A of E. coli (34% identity and 57% similarity), and, more generally, to the periplasmic oligopeptide binding family of proteins.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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