title: The major anaerobically induced outer membrane protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Pan 1, is a lipoprotein.
abstract: Pan 1 is an acidic outer membrane protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae that is expressed only when gonococci are grown anaerobically. On silver-stained sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels, Pan 1 migrates as an intense but diffuse 54-kDa protein. The deduced amino acid sequence of Pan 1 from the aniA (anaerobically induced protein) open reading frame reveals a lipoprotein consensus sequence, Ala-Leu-Ala-Ala-Cys, and a processed molecular mass of 39 kDa. Furthermore, there is strong homology at the N terminus and C terminus of Pan 1 to the termini of the gonococcal outer membrane lipoproteins Lip and Laz. [3H]palmitic acid labeling of gonococci grown under oxygen-limited conditions demonstrated specific incorporation of label into Pan 1, suggesting further that Pan 1 is a lipoprotein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, New York 14642.
authors.forename: G T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Hoehn
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry*; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D019308:Palmitic Acid; D010169:Palmitic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D008074:Lipoproteins; D010169:Palmitic Acids; C077531:aniA protein, Neisseria gonorrhoeae; D019308:Palmitic Acid