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. 2022 Jul 23;13:4258. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31925-w

Fig. 3. BcpT requires proteolytic cleavage for activity.

Fig. 3

a Agar overlay assays using PvCL10 as the overlay strain with 450 ng His-BcpT, or His-BcpT cleaved with Factor Xa, or Factor Xa alone. b Coomassie-stained polyacrylamide gel of His-BcpT cleaved with Factor Xa for various periods of time showing cleavage products a, b, and c. c Western immunoblot of supernatants of overnight cultures of the indicated strain or mutant probed with α-BcpT showing a representative of three independent blots. d Sequence of BcpT with the native signal sequence showing the SpII cleavage site and the sequence of the construct with the His-tag. The N-terminal sequences of the a, b, and c fragments of panel B determined by amino acid sequencing are boxed. Fragment a is colored blue and fragment c is colored green. Fragment b is the combination of the beige and green sequences. e Coomassie-stained gels of recombinant BcpT with mutants at LTR sites, R65N and R199N, cleaved with FXa. The (*) indicates the presence of a probable protein from E. coli in that lane and the following three lanes. f Agar overlay assays of PvCL10 were spotted with purified BcpT WT and activation site mutants. The horizontal and vertical hashmarks are from the polystyrene plate grids. g Western blot of supernatants of overnight cultures of the reconstructed BcpT site mutants R65N, R199N, R65RN199N in the PdCL02 ΔbcpT background probed with α-BcpT. h Agar overlay assays with spotted  WT PdCL02 and each of the PdCL02 reconstructed BcpT site mutants in the PdCL02 ΔbcpT background overlaid with strain PvCL10. The (*) indicates reconstructed plasmid. All overlay assays, Coomassie-stained gels and western blots were performed at least twice. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.