Dissociation and Reassembly of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane and of Lipopolysaccharide, and Their Reassembly onto Flagellar Basal Bodies
- 1 March 1971
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 105 (3), 1184-1199
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.105.3.1184-1199.1971
Abstract
Purified lipopolysaccharide vesicles dissociate when treated with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and then reassemble when dialyzed against Mg2+. Purified outer, lipopolysaccharide membrane (L membrane) is partially dissociated by treatment with EDTA and fully dissociated upon further treatment with Triton X-100. Both the partially and fully dissociated L membrane can be reassembled by dialysis against Mg2+. Reassembly of lipopolysaccharide or L membrane in the presence of intact flagella results in specific attachment of flagellar basal bodies to vesicles via the L and sometimes the M ring. Lipopolysaccharide and L membrane appear to be composed of substructures bound together by both Mg2+ (divalent cation)-mediated and hydrophobic bonds.Keywords
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