Expression of two gas vacuole protein genes in Halobacterium halobium and other related species

1989 ◽  
Vol 218 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Horne ◽  
Felicitas Pfeifer
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicitas Pfeifer ◽  
Ulrike Blaseio ◽  
Mary Horne

Halobacterium halobium contains two gas vacuole protein genes that are located in plasmid pHH1 (p-vac) and in the chromosomal DNA (c-vac). The mutation frequency for these genes is different: the constitutively expressed p-vac gene is mutated with a frequency of 10−2, while the chromosomal gene expressed in the stationary phase of growth is mutated with a frequency of 10−5. The difference in the mutation susceptibility is due to the dynamics of plasmid pHH1. p-vac gene mutations are caused (i) by the integration of an insertion element or (ii) by a deletion event encompassing the p-vac gene region. In contrast, c-vac mutants analyzed to date incurred neither insertion elements nor deletions. Deletion events within pHH1 occur at high frequencies during the development of a H. halobium culture. The investigation of the fusion regions resulting from deletion events indicates that insertion elements are involved. The analysis of pHH1 deletion variants led to a 4 kilobase pair DNA region containing the origin of replication of the pHH1 plasmid.Key words: gas vacuole protein gene, plasmid dynamics, deletions, insertion elements.


Plasmid ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gottfried Weidinger ◽  
Günther Klotz ◽  
Werner Goebel

1988 ◽  
Vol 213 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Horne ◽  
Christoph Englert ◽  
Felicitas Pfeifer

1968 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walther Stoeckenius ◽  
Wolf H. Kunau

Lysates of cell envelopes from Halobacterium halobium have been separated into four fractions. A soluble, colorless fraction (I) containing protein, hexosamines, and no lipid is apparently derived from the cell wall. A red fraction (II), containing approximately 40 per cent lipid, 60 per cent protein, and a small amount of hexosamines consists of cell membrane disaggregated into fragments of small size. A third fraction (III) of purple color consists of large membrane sheets and has a very similar composition to II, containing the same classes of lipids but no hexosamines; its buoyant density is 1.18 g/ml. The fourth fraction (IV) has a buoyant density of 1.23 g/ml and contains the "intracytoplasmic membranes." These consist mainly of protein, and no lipid can be extracted with chloroform-methanol. Fractions I and II, which result from disaggregation of cell wall and cell membrane during lysis, contain a high proportion of dicarboxyl amino acids; this is in good agreement with the assumption that disruption of the cell envelope upon removal of salt is due to the high charge density. The intracytoplasmic membranes (IV) represent the gas vacuole membranes in the collapsed state. In a number of mutants that have lost the ability to form gas vacuoles, no vacuole membranes or any structure that could be related to them has been found.


1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faustino Menegus ◽  
Liliana Cattaruzza ◽  
Leonardo Scaglioni ◽  
Enzio Ragg

1904 ◽  
Vol 58 (1493supp) ◽  
pp. 23927-23928
Author(s):  
Charles H. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
Sarah Wigley ◽  
George M Garrity ◽  
Dorothea Taylor

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