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. 2016 Dec 3;5:e20718. doi: 10.7554/eLife.20718

Figure 5. Polar cluster substitutions impair Tat transport.

Strains contained the indicated amino acid substitutions in chromosomally encoded TatA or plasmid-encoded TatB or TatC. TatCMTQ is a combination of the three substitutions M205A, T208A, and Q215A. TatAy is TatA with a C-terminal fusion to yellow fluorescent protein. (A) Transport activity of strains overproducing the Tat substrate CueO. Whole cell (W), spheroplast (S) and periplasm (P) fractions were subject to immunoblotting with antibodies against CueO or the cytoplasmic marker protein DnaK. m is the transported form of CueO from which the signal peptide has been removed and p the precursor protein. (B) Phase contrast images of the strains. `Δtat’ is the complete tat deletion strain DADE-A. (C) Membranes from the same strains were isolated and immunoblotted with a combination of TatB and TatC antibodies or with TatA antibodies.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20718.012

Figure 5.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1. Analysis of Tat transport activity.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1.

(A) Plasmid p101C*TatBC produces wild-type levels of TatB and TatC. (Left) Immunoblot of membranes isolated from the indicated strains probed with a combination of TatB and TatC antibodies, or with TatA antibodies. (Right) Transport activity of strains overproducing the Tat substrate CueO. Whole cell (W), periplasm (P), or spheroplast (S) fractions were subject to immunoblotting with antibodies against CueO (top panel) or the cytoplasmic marker protein DnaK (bottom panel). m is the transported form of CueO from which the signal peptide has been removed and p the precursor protein. (B) The TatAQ8A variant is able to increase the Tat pathway activity of a TatE-containing strain. (Left) Transport activity of strains overproducing the Tat substrate CueO, labeled as in (A). (Right) Phase contrast images of the indicated strains.