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Published on: June 20, 2010
Polysaccharide inducible outer membrane proteins of Bacteroides xylanolyticus X5-1
M W Fields1, P E Ryals, K L Anderson
1Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA.
Abstract:
Little is known about how bacteria degrade structural polysaccharides or the regulatory systems that control this degradation. Bacteroides xylanolyticus X5-1 is a Gram-negative, anaerobic bacterium that can grow on structural polysaccharides such as xylan and pectin. In order to determine the response of this organism to specific substrates,B. xylanolyticus was grown on a variety of mono-, di-, and polysaccharides. Electrophoretic analysis revealed no distinct differences in the polypeptide profile of the inner membrane enrichments of cells grown on different carbohydrates. However, distinct differences in protein composition of outer membrane enrichments were clearly observed. The profiles from cells grown on starch, xylan, and pectin were distinct from each other and their respective monosaccharide. In addition, cells initially grown on xylan did not alter their total membrane protein composition after three generations of growth in medium containing xylan and glucose. Thus,B. xylanolyticus X5-1 altered its outer membrane protein composition in response to specific polysaccharide substrates, but analysis of this specific response revealed no evidence that glucose was preferred over xylan as a substrate.
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