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Chitin Catabolism in the Marine Bacterium Vibrio furnissii

N. Keyhani,Xibing Li,S. Roseman

Published 2000 in Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Chitin catabolism by the marine bacteriumVibrio furnissii involves many genes and proteins, including two unique periplasmic hydrolases, a chitodextrinase and a β-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. InEscherichia 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.

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