Abstract
Expression of a recently constructed bla-phoE hybrid gene results in synthesis and incorporation into the outer membrane of PhoE protein containing an amino-terminal extension of 158 amino acid residues of beta-lactamase (Tommassen et al., EMBO J. 2:1275-1279, 1983). As the PhoE protein part of this hybrid protein is apparently normally incorporated into the outer membrane, the beta-lactamase part of the protein can be considered as a label of the amino terminus of PhoE protein. By using trypsin accessibility experiments, this beta-lactamase part was shown to be located at the periplasmic side of the membrane. Therefore, the amino terminus of PhoE protein most likely faces the periplasm.
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