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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 18, 13372-13378, May 4, 2007

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Amino Acids at Positions 3 and 4 Determine the Membrane Specificity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lipoproteins^*

From the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan

Escherichia coli lipoproteins with Asp at position 2 remain in the inner membrane, whereas those having other amino acids are targeted to the outer membrane by the Lol system. However, inner membrane lipoproteins without Asp at position 2 are found in other Gram-negative bacteria. MexA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an inner membrane-specific lipoprotein involved in multidrug efflux, has Gly at position 2. To identify the residue or region of MexA that functions as an inner membrane retention signal, we constructed chimeric lipoproteins comprising various regions of MexA and an outer membrane lipoprotein, OprM, and analyzed their membrane localization. Lys and Ser at positions 3 and 4, respectively, were found to be critical for the inner membrane localization of MexA in P. aeruginosa. Substitution of these residues with Leu and Ile, which are present in OprM, was sufficient to target the chimeric lipoprotein to the outer membrane and to abolish the ability of MexA to confer drug resistance. The membrane specificity of a model lipoprotein, lipoMalE, a lipidated variant of the periplasmic maltose-binding protein of E. coli, was also determined by the residues at positions 3 and 4 in P. aeruginosa. In contrast to the widely accepted "+2 rule" for E. coli lipoproteins, these results suggest a new "+3, +4 rule" for lipoprotein sorting in P. aeruginosa, namely, the final destination of lipoproteins is determined by the residues at positions 3 and 4.

Received for publication, December 27, 2006 , and in revised form, March 8, 2007.

^* This work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (to H. T.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains a supplemental figure and two supplemental tables.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan. Tel.: 81-3-5841-7830; Fax: 81-3-5841-8464; E-mail: htokuda{at}iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

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