Abstract
Assembly of the OmpF and LamB proteins was kinetically retarded in deep rough lipopolysaccharide mutants of Escherichia coli K-12. OmpF assembly was affected at the step of conversion of metastable trimers to stable trimers, whereas LamB assembly was influenced both at the monomer-to-metastable trimer and metastable-to-stable trimer steps. These assembly defects were reversed in the presence of the sfaA1 and sfaB3 suppressor alleles, which were isolated by using ompF assembly mutants.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2259-2264 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of bacteriology |
Volume | 176 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology