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Wild-type Escherichia coli K-12 produces two porins, OmpF (protein 1a) and OmpC (protein 1b). In mutants deficient in both of these "normal" porins, secondary mutants that produce a "new" porin, protein PhoE (protein E), are selected for. We determined the properties of the channels produced by each of these porins by measuring the rates of diffusion of various cephalosporins through the outer membrane in strains producing only one porin species. We found that all porin channels retarded the diffusion of more hydrophobic cephalosporins and that with monoanionic cephalosporins a 10-fold increase in the octanol-water partition coefficient of the solute produced a 5- to 6-fold decrease in the rate of penetration. Electrical charges of the solutes had different effects on different channels. Thus, with the normal porins (i.e., OmpF and OmpC proteins) additional negative charge drastically reduced the penetration rate through the channels, whereas additional positive charge significantly accelerated the penetration. In contrast, diffusion through the PhoE channel was unaffected by the presence of an additional negative charge. We hypothesize that the relative exclusion of hydrophobic and negatively charged solutes by normal porin channels is of ecological advantage to E. coli, which must exclude hydrophobic and anionic bile salts in its natural habitat. The properties of the PhoE porin are also consistent with the recent finding (M. Argast and W. Boos, J. Bacteriol. 143:142-150, 1980; J. Tommassen and B. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol. 143:151-157, 1980) that its biosynthesis is derepressed by phosphate starvation; the channel may thus act as an emergency pore primarily for the uptake of phosphate and phosphorylated compounds.Keywords:
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A strain of Escherichia coli, selected on the basis of its resistance to colicin N, reveals distinct structural and functional alterations in unspecific OmpF porin. A single mutation [Gly-119-->Asp (G119D)] was identified in the internal loop L3 that contributes critically to the formation of the construction inside the lumen of the pore. X-ray structure analysis to a resolution of 3.0 A reveals a locally altered peptide backbone, with the side chain of residue Asp-119 protruding into the channel, causing the area of the constriction (7 x 11 A in the wild type) to be subdivided into two intercommunicating subcompartments of 3-4 A in diameter. The functional consequences of this structural modification consist of a reduction of the channel conductance by about one-third, of altered ion selectivity and voltage gating, and of a decrease of permeation rates of various sugars by factors of 2-12. The structural modification of the mutant protein affects neither the beta-barrel structure nor those regions of the molecule that are exposed at the cell surface. Considering the colicin resistance of the mutant, it is inferred that in vivo, colicin N traverses the outer membrane through the porin channel or that the dynamics of the exposed loops are affected in the mutant such that these may impede the binding of the toxin.
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Porins are pore-forming outer-membrane proteins which serve as a non-specific pathway for the entry of hydrophilic molecules into Gram-negative bacteria. We studied four strains of Haemophilus influenzae that had decreased permeability to chloramphenicol associated with diminished quantities of a 40 kDa major outer-membrane protein. Isogenic pairs of organisms containing and lacking this protein were compared. The latter strains grew more slowly and were less permeable to sucrose and raffinose. They were also more resistant to multiple hydrophilic antibiotics than an isogenic strain containing the 40 kDa protein and were less permeable to penicillin G and chloramphenicol. We conclude that the 40 kDa outer-membrane protein functions as a porin in H. influenzae.
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Colicins kill Escherichia coli after translocation across the outer membrane. Colicin N displays an unusually simple translocation pathway, using the outer membrane protein F (OmpF) as both receptor and translocator. Studies of this binary complex may therefore reveal a significant component of the translocation pathway. Here we show that, in 2D crystals, colicin is found outside the porin trimer, suggesting that translocation may occur at the protein-lipid interface. The major lipid of the outer leaflet interface is lipopolysaccharide (LPS). It is further shown that colicin N binding displaces OmpF-bound LPS. The N-terminal helix of the pore-forming domain, which is not required for pore formation, rearranges and binds to OmpF. Colicin N also binds artificial OmpF dimers, indicating that trimeric symmetry plays no part in the interaction. The data indicate that colicin is closely associated with the OmpF-lipid interface, providing evidence that this peripheral pathway may play a role in colicin transmembrane transport.
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Colicin N kills sensitive Escherichia coli cells by first binding to its trimeric receptor (OmpF) via its receptor binding domain. It then uses OmpF to translocate across the outer membrane and in the process it also needs domains II and III of the protein TolA. Recent studies have demonstrated sodium dodecyl sulfate- (SDS) dependent complex formation between trimeric porins and TolA-II. Here we demonstrate that colicin N forms similar complexes with the same trimeric porins and that this association is unexpectedly solely dependent upon the pore-forming domain (P-domain). No binding was seen with the monomeric porin OmpA. In mixtures of P-domain and TolA with OmpF porin, only binary and no ternary complexes were observed, suggesting that binding of these proteins to the porin is mutually exclusive. Pull-down assays in solution show that porin−P-domain complexes also form in the presence of outer membrane lipopolysaccharide. This indicates that an additional colicin−porin interaction may occur within the outer membrane, one that involves the colicin pore domain rather than the receptor-binding domain. This may help to explain the role of porins and TolA-II in the later stages of colicin translocation.
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The OmpF porin plays a central role during the colicin uptake by sensitive Escherichia coli cells. Lipopolysaccharide‐OmpF complexes ( ‐1b LPS‐OmpF), which contain one tightly bound and no loosely bound LPS molecules for each porin trimer, is able to recognize and bind to immobilized colicins. This association is specific to colicins A and N, which both use the OmpF porin as receptor, and depends on the presence of the porin‐receptor domain on the bacteriocin molecule. The ‐1b LPS‐OmpF complex protects sensitive cells against colicin A and N activity. The protection level depends on the native conformation, as demonstrated by heat denaturation of the trimeric porin which abolishes the protection. This indicates that the purified OmpF trimer presents an affinity site for the colicin which efficiently mimics the native cellular receptor site. These results are discussed with regard to the conformation of the receptor site and to the early steps of colicin uptake.
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The porins OmpF and OmpC are trimeric β-barrel proteins with narrow channels running through each monomer that exclude molecules > 600 Da while mediating the passive diffusion of small nutrients and metabolites across the Gram-negative outer membrane (OM). Here, we elucidate the mechanism by which an entire soluble protein domain (> 6 kDa) is delivered through the lumen of such porins. Following high-affinity binding to the vitamin B 12 receptor in Escherichia coli , the bacteriocin ColE9 recruits OmpF or OmpC using an 83-residue intrinsically unstructured translocation domain (IUTD) to deliver a 16-residue TolB-binding epitope (TBE) in the center of the IUTD to the periplasm where it triggers toxin entry. We demonstrate that the IUTD houses two OmpF-binding sites, OBS1 (residues 2–18) and OBS2 (residues 54–63), which flank the TBE and bind with K d s of 2 and 24 μM, respectively, at pH 6.5 and 25 ºC. We show the two OBSs share the same binding site on OmpF and that the colicin must house at least one of them for antibiotic activity. Finally, we report the structure of the OmpF-OBS1 complex that shows the colicin bound within the porin lumen spanning the membrane bilayer. Our study explains how colicins exploit porins to deliver epitope signals to the bacterial periplasm and, more broadly, how the inherent flexibility and narrow cross-sectional area of an IUP domain can endow it with the ability to traverse a biological membrane via the constricted lumen of a β-barrel membrane protein.
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