The gene encoding the Pseudomonas aeruginosa phosphate-specific porin OprP was subjected to both linker and epitope insertion mutageneses. Nine of the 13 linker mutant genes expressed protein at levels comparable to those obtained with the wild-type gene. These mutant proteins were shown, by indirect immunofluorescence with an OprP-specific antiserum, to be properly exposed at the cell surface....

The ompB locus, comprised of the genes ompR and envZ, regulates the expression of the genes ompF and ompC that encode the major porin proteins in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli K-12. OmpR is believed to activate transcription of ompF and ompC in a reciprocal manner depending upon the osmolarity of the culture medium. We were able to purify OmpR to homogeneity and to characterize its int...

Haemophilus ducreyi is a strict human pathogen and the causative agent of the sexually transmitted disease chancroid. The genome of the human-passaged strain of H. ducreyi (35000HP) contains two homologous genes whose protein products have estimated molecular masses of 46 and 43 kDa. A comparative analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences revealed that these proteins share 27 to 33% identity...

The bacterial factors associated with bacteremia by multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa, including overexpression of efflux pumps, AmpC overproduction, and loss/alteration of the OprD porin in isolates that are non-Metallo-β-Lactamase producing were analyzed in a retrospective study. Molecular analyses included strain typing by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis and i...

The oprO gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa codes for a polyphosphate-specific porin and terminates 458 bp upstream of the start codon for the phosphate-specific porin OprP. OprO was found to be expressed only under phosphate-starvation conditions in both wild-type and oprP::Tn501 mutant P. aeruginosa strains. However, unlike the rest of the genes of the Pho regulon, including oprP, expression of o...

Diminished permeation of beta-lactam antibiotics in a mutant (PCC23) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, PAO503, was investigated. Resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics could not be correlated to a change in the beta-lactamase or target proteins in strain PCC23 but was correlated with decreased permeability. In liposome swelling assays, the permeability defect was associated with strain PCC23 porin. Ami...

Due in large part to their ability to facilitate the diffusion of a diverse range of solutes across the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria, the porins represent one of the most prominent and important bacterial membrane protein superfamilies. Notably, for the Gram-negative bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, a model organism for studies of sulfate-reducing bacteria, no ge...

We have isolated an outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) fraction from baker's yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that possesses porin activity and contains a major polypeptide of 29,000 daltons. By analogy to similar data for an OMM fraction from rat liver and mung bean [Zalman, L. S., Nikaido, N. & Kagawa, Y. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 1771-1774], the 29,000-dalton polypeptide of the isolated yea...

As reported, the two-component system ColRS is involved in two completely different processes. It facilitates the root colonization ability of Pseudomonas fluorescens and is necessary for the Tn4652 transposition-dependent accumulation of phenol-utilizing mutants in Pseudomonas putida. To determine the role of the ColRS system in P. putida, we searched for target genes of response regulator Col...

The porin (PorB) of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an intriguing bacterial factor owing to its ability to translocate from the outer bacterial membrane into host cell membranes where it modulates the infection process. Here we report on the induction of programmed cell death after prolonged infection of epithelial cells with pathogenic Neisseria species. The underlying mechanism we propose includes t...