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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 42, 33068-33076, October 20, 2000
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From the Department of Biology and the McCollum-Pratt Institute,
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Chitin catabolism by the marine bacterium
Vibrio furnissii involves many genes and proteins,
including two unique periplasmic hydrolases, a chitodextrinase and a
-N-acetylglucosaminidase (Keyhani, N. O., and
Roseman, S. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 33414-33424 and 33425-33432). A specific chitoporin in the outer membrane may be
required for these glycosidases to be accessible to extracellular chitooligosaccharides, (GlcNAc)n, that are produced by chitinases. We report here the identification and molecular cloning of
such a porin. An outer membrane protein, OMP (apparent molecular mass 40 kDa) was expressed when V. furnissii was
induced by (GlcNAc)n, n = 2-6, but not by
GlcNAc or other sugars. Based on the N-terminal sequence of OMP,
oligonucleotides were synthesized and used to clone the gene,
chiP. The deduced amino acid sequence of ChiP is similar to
several bacterial porins; OMP is a processed form of ChiP. In
Escherichia coli, two recombinant proteins were observed, corresponding to processed and unprocessed forms of ChiP. A null mutant
of chiP was constructed in V. furnissii. In
contrast to the parental strain, the mutant did not grow on
(GlcNAc)3 and transported a nonmetabolizable analogue of
(GlcNAc)2 at a reduced rate. These results imply that ChiP
is a specific chitoporin.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EMBL Data Bank with accession number(s) AF129934.
Present address: Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Science,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
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To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biology and
the McCollum-Pratt Inst., Johns Hopkins University, Mudd Hall, Rm. 214, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
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