title: Plasmid-mediated sucrose metabolism in Escherichia coli: characterization of scrY, the structural gene for a phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sucrose phosphotransferase system outer membrane porin.
abstract: The scrY gene, part of the pUR400-borne sucrose regulon, appeared to be transcribed from its own promoter, with the transcriptional start site located 58 bp upstream from the initiation codon. An open reading frame encoding a polypeptide of 505 amino acid residues (Mr 55,408) was identified. The first 22 amino acid residues formed a leader sequence typical of those found in other procaryotic outer membrane and periplasmic proteins. A frameshift mutation in the scrY gene resulted in a dramatic decrease in sucrose transport with no effect on in vitro phosphorylation activity associated with enzyme IISer. The rate of diffusion of sucrose was 96 times greater than the rate of diffusion of lactose or maltose in liposomes containing the ScrY protein. This increase in sucrose permeability provided strong evidence that the ScrY protein functions as a sucrose porin. There was 23% amino acid sequence identity between the ScrY protein and LamB, a maltose porin from Escherichia coli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hardesty
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferran
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: DiRienzo
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010641:Phenotype; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System / Q000235:genetics*; D010957:Plasmids; D018272:Porins; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013395:Sucrose / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D018272:Porins; D013395:Sucrose; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System; C055701:phosphoenolpyruvate-sucrose phosphotransferase