Cheng H H, Echols H
Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.
J Mol Biol. 1987 Aug 5;196(3):737-40. doi: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90046-5.
The HflA protein of Escherichia coli is critical for the choice of the lytic or lysogenic pathway by bacteriophage lambda. To investigate whether HflA plays a regulatory role in E. coli, we used two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to compare the distribution of E. coli proteins in hflA+ and hflA- cells. We found at least 13 proteins that are present in hflA- strains, but absent or very low in hflA+ strains. This observation indicates that HflA might be involved in regulation of a large class of E. coli proteins. Because of prior work implicating the Crp/cAMP system in Hfl-mediated regulation of lambda, we also studied the distribution of E. coli proteins in cya- strains unable to synthesize cAMP. Some of the same proteins found in hflA- are elicited by the addition of cAMP to cya- cells.