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. 1979 Jul;139(1):32–38. doi: 10.1128/jb.139.1.32-38.1979

Accelerated Adsorption of Bacteriophage T5 to Escherichia coli F, Resulting from Reversible Tail Fiber-Lipopolysaccharide Binding

Knut Heller 1, Volkmar Braun 1
PMCID: PMC216823  PMID: 378958

Abstract

A dual specificity for phage T5 adsorption to Escherichia coli cells is shown. The tail fiber-containing phages T5+ and mutant hd-3 adsorbed rapidly to E. coli F (1.2 × 10−9 ml min−1), whereas the adsorption rate of the tail fiber-less mutants hd-1, hd-2, and hd-4 was low (7 × 10−11 ml min−1). The differences in adsorption rates were due to the particular lipopolysaccharide structure of E. coli F. Phage T4-resistant mutants of E. coli F with an altered lipopolysaccharide structure exhibited similar low adsorption for all phage strains with and without tail fibers. The same held true for E. coli K-12 and B which also differ from E. coli F in their lipopolysaccharide structures. Only the tail fiber-containing phages reversibly bound to isolated lipopolysaccharides of E. coli F. Infection by all phage strains strictly depended on the tonA-coded protein in the outer membrane of E. coli. We assume that the reversible preadsorption by the tail fibers to lipopolysaccharide accelerates infection which occurs via the highly specific irreversible binding of the phage tail to the tonA-coded protein receptor. The difference between rapid and slow adsorption was also revealed by the competition between ferrichrome and T5 for binding to their common tonA-coded receptor in tonB strains of E. coli. Whereas binding of T5+ to E. coli K-12 and of the tail-fiber-less mutant hd-2 to E. coli F and K-12 was inhibited 50% by about 0.01 μM ferrichrome, adsorption of T5 to E. coli F was inhibited only 40% by even 1,000-fold higher ferrichrome concentrations.

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