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. 1991 Feb;173(3):1223–1229. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.3.1223-1229.1991

The ompH gene of Yersinia enterocolitica: cloning, sequencing, expression, and comparison with known enterobacterial ompH sequences.

L Hirvas 1, P Koski 1, M Vaara 1
PMCID: PMC207246  PMID: 1991717

Abstract

We have recently described a previously uncharacterized outer membrane protein of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli and cloned and sequenced the corresponding gene, the ompH gene, of S. typhimurium (P. Koski, M. Rhen, J. Kantele, and M. Vaara, J. Biol. Chem. 264:18973-18980, 1989). We report here the cloning, sequencing, and expression of the corresponding gene of Yersinia enterocolitica. It is significantly homologous to the ompH genes of E. coli and S. typhimurium (homology percentages, 65 and 64%, respectively), has a promoter region strongly homologous to the E. coli 17-bp class consensus promoter, and encodes a protein consisting of 165 amino acids (22 of which form the signal sequence). The plasmid-borne Y. enterocolitica ompH was found to be expressed both in the E. coli host and in minicells. The isolated outer membrane of Y. enterocolitica was shown to contain OmpH. The homology of the Y. enterocolitica OmpH protein is 66% with E. coli OmpH and 64% with S. typhimurium OmpH. All OmpH proteins have almost identical hydrophobic profiles, charge distributions, and predicted secondary structures. Because yersiniae are considered rather distant relatives of E. coli and S. typhimurium in the Enterobacteriaceae family, these results might indicate that most or all strains of the family Enterobacteriaceae have OmpH proteins remarkably homologous to those now sequenced.

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