L-MONOCYTOGENES-INDUCED ACTIN ASSEMBLY REQUIRES THE ACTA GENE-PRODUCT, A SURFACE PROTEIN

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作者
KOCKS, C
GOUIN, E
TABOURET, M
BERCHE, P
OHAYON, H
COSSART, P
机构
[1] INST PASTEUR,CENT MICROSCOPIE ELECTR STN,F-75724 PARIS 15,FRANCE
[2] UNIV PARIS 05,MICROBIOL LAB,F-75730 PARIS 15,FRANCE
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10.1016/0092-8674(92)90188-I
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The intracellular pathogenic bacterium L. monocytogenes can spread directly from cell to cell without leaving the cytoplasm. The mechanism of this movement, generated through bacterially induced actin polymerization, is not understood. By analyzing an avirulent Tn917-lac mutant defective for actin polymerization, we have identified a bacterial component involved in this process. The transposon had inserted in actA, the second gene of an operon. Gene disruption of downstream genes and transformation of the mutant strain with actA showed that the actA gene encodes a surface protein necessary for bacterially induced actin assembly. Our results indicate that it is a 610 amino acid protein with an apparent molecular weight of 90 kd.
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