Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2128
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Lysis inhibition (LIN) of T4-infected cells was one of the foundational experimental systems for modern molecular genetics. In LIN, secondary infection of T4-infected cells results in a dramatically protracted infection cycle in which intracellular phage and endolysin accumulation can continue for hours. At the molecular level, this is due to the inhibition of the holin, T, by the antiholin, RI. RI is only 97 residues and contains an N-terminal hydrophobic domain and a C-terminal hydrophilic domain; expression of the latter domain fused to a secretory signal sequence is sufficient to impose LIN, due to its specific interaction with the periplasmic domain of the T holin. Here we show that the N-terminal sequence comprises a signal anchor release (SAR) domain, which causes the secretion of RI in a membrane-tethered form and then its subsequent release into the periplasm, without proteolytic processing. Moreover, the SAR domain confers both functional lability and DegP-mediated proteolytic instability on the released form of RI, although LIN is not affected in a
degP
host. These results are discussed in terms of a model for the activation of RI in the establishment of the LIN state.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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