Functional interaction of the tonA/tonB receptor system in Escherichia coli
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- DOI: 10.1128/jb.135.1.190-197.1978
Functional interaction of the tonA/tonB receptor system in Escherichia coli
Abstract
Host range mutants of phage T1 (T1h), which productively infected tonB mutants of Escherichia coli, were isolated. The phage mutants were inactivated by isolated outer membranes of E. coli in contrast to the wild-type phage, which only adsorbed reversibly. For the infection process, the tonB function is apparently only required for the irreversible adsorption of the phage T1, but not for the transfer of the phage DNA through the outer membrane and the cytoplasmic membrane of the cell. Mutants of the tonA gene expressing normal amounts of outer membrane receptor proteins were isolated and found to be partially sensitive to phage T5 and resistant to the phages T1 and T1h, colicin M, and albomycin and unable to take up iron as a ferrichrome complex. One tonA mutant remained partially sensitive to T5, colicin M, and albomycin and supported growth of T1h (not of T1) with the same plating efficiency as the parent strain. Only a small region of the tonA receptor protein seems to function for all the very different substrates. A newly isolated host range mutant of T5 (T5h) adsorbed faster to tonA(+) cells than did wild-type T5 and infected tonA missense mutants resistant to wild-type T5. The interplay of the tonA with the tonB function was observed with phage T5 infection, although T5 required only the tonA receptor. Ferrichrome inhibited plaque formation of T5 only when plated on tonB mutants. Adsorption of T5 to cells in liquid medium was influenced by ferrichrome as follows: complete inhibition by 0.1 muM ferrichrome with tonB mutants, not more than 35% inhibition by 1 to 100 muM ferrichrome with the tonB(+) parent strain in the presence of glucose as energy source, and 90% inhibition by 1 muM ferrichrome with partially starved parent cells. We conclude that there exist different functional states of the receptor protein that depend on the energy state of the cell and the tonB function. The latter seems to be required only for translocation processes with outer membrane proteins involved.
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