Proteomic Analysis and Identification of the Structural and Regulatory Proteins of the Rhodobacter capsulatus Gene Transfer Agent

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• 作者：Frank Chen ; Anthony Spano ; Benjamin E. Goodman ; Kiev R. Blasier ; Agnes Sabat ; Erin Jeffery ; Andrew Norris ; Jeffrey Shabanowitz ; Donald F. Hunt ; Nikolai Lebedev
• 刊名：Journal of Proteome Research
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：February 6, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：8
• 期：2
• 页码：967-973
• 全文大小：469K
• 年卷期：v.8,no.2(February 6, 2009)
• ISSN：1535-3907

文摘

The gene transfer agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus (GTA) is a unique phage-like particle that exchanges genetic information between members of this same species of bacterium. Besides being an excellent tool for genetic mapping, the GTA has a number of advantages for biotechnological and nanoengineering purposes. To facilitate the GTA purification and identify the proteins involved in GTA expression, assembly and regulation, in the present work we construct and transform into R. capsulatus Y262 a gene coding for a C-terminally His-tagged capsid protein. The constructed protein was expressed in the cells, assembled into chimeric GTA particles inside the cells and excreted from the cells into surrounding medium. Transmission electron micrographs of phosphotungstate-stained, NiNTA-purified chimeric GTA confirm that its structure is similar to normal GTA particles, with many particles composed both of a head and a tail. The mass spectrometric proteomic analysis of polypeptides present in the GTA recovered outside the cells shows that GTA is composed of at least 9 proteins represented in the GTA gene cluster including proteins coded for by Orf’s 3, 5, 6−9, 11, 13, and 15.