Recht J, Kolter R
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2001 Oct;183(19):5718-24. doi: 10.1128/JB.183.19.5718-5724.2001.
The absence of glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) abolishes the ability of mycobacteria both to slide over the surface of motility plates and to form biofilms on polyvinyl chloride. In a screen for biofilm-defective mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis mc(2)155, a new mutant was obtained that resulted in partial inhibition of both processes and also showed an intermediate rough colony morphology. The mariner transposon insertion mapped to a GPL biosynthesis gene (atf1) which encodes a putative acetyltranferase involved in the transfer of acetyl groups to the glycopeptide core. Physical characterization of the GPLs from the atf1 mutant demonstrated that they were not acetylated.
糖脂(GPLs)的缺失消除了分枝杆菌在运动平板表面滑动以及在聚氯乙烯上形成生物膜的能力。在耻垢分枝杆菌mc(2)155生物膜缺陷突变体的筛选中,获得了一个新的突变体,该突变体导致这两个过程均受到部分抑制,并且还表现出中间粗糙的菌落形态。水手转座子插入定位到一个GPL生物合成基因(atf1),该基因编码一种假定的乙酰转移酶,参与将乙酰基转移到糖肽核心。来自atf1突变体的GPLs的物理特性表明它们没有被乙酰化。