Abstract
The biosynthesis of membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was examined using various antibiotics (puromycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and rifampin). Among six major membrane proteins separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the biosynthesis of two membrane proteins (proteins I and II) was found to be unusually resistant to these antibiotics. The biosynthesis of protein I (apparent molecular weight of 6,500) was completely resistant to puromycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, and tetracycline at conditions which severely inhibited the biosynthesis of all the other membrane proteins except for protein II. Under the same conditions, the biosynthesis of protein II (apparent molecular weight of 9,000) was also resistant to puromycin, streptomycin, and tetracycline, but was sensitive to chloramphenicol. The effect of rifampin on the biosynthesis of proteins I and II indicated that their messenger RNAs are extremely stable; their functional half-lives are 16 and 8 min for proteins I and II, respectively, in contrast with 2.0 and 3.5 min for the average half-lives of the cytoplasmic and membrane proteins, respectively. Protein II was identified as the lipoprotein of the outer membrane from its amino acid composition and mobility in gel electrophoresis. Protein I is a cytoplasmic membrane protein lacking histidine. From the content of arginine residues, the number of protein I molecules per cell was estimated to be as many as, and most likely more than, that of the lipoprotein (protein II). Therefore, protein I is the most abundant protein in P. aeruginosa.
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