ompA

Summary

Gene Symbol: ompA
Description: outer membrane protein A (3a;II*;G;d)
Alias: ECK0948, JW0940, con, tolG, tut
Species:

Top Publications

  1. ncbi The structure of SecB/OmpA as visualized by electron microscopy: The mature region of the precursor protein binds asymmetrically to SecB
    Ying Tang
    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun 393:698-702. 2010
  2. ncbi Escherichia coli interaction with human brain microvascular endothelial cells induces signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 association with the C-terminal domain of Ec-gp96, the outer membrane protein A receptor for invasion
    Ravi Maruvada
    Division of Infectious Diseases, The Saban Research Institute, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
    Cell Microbiol 10:2326-38. 2008
  3. ncbi Proteomic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilms reveals the overexpression of the outer membrane protein OmpA
    Rowan Orme
    University of Manchester, Faculty of Medicine and Human Health, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Manchester, UK
    Proteomics 6:4269-77. 2006
  4. ncbi Conserved small non-coding RNAs that belong to the sigmaE regulon: role in down-regulation of outer membrane proteins
    Jesper Johansen
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK 5230, Odense M, Denmark
    J Mol Biol 364:1-8. 2006
  5. ncbi A naturally occurring novel allele of Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A reduces sensitivity to bacteriophage
    Michelle L Power
    Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:7930-2. 2006
  6. ncbi The ompA 5' untranslated RNA segment functions in Escherichia coli as a growth-rate-regulated mRNA stabilizer whose activity is unrelated to translational efficiency
    S A Emory
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
    J Bacteriol 172:4472-81. 1990
  7. ncbi Coincident Hfq binding and RNase E cleavage sites on mRNA and small regulatory RNAs
    Isabella Moll
    Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University Departments at the Vienna Biocenter, Dr Bohrgasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria
    RNA 9:1308-14. 2003
  8. ncbi Differential effects of yfgL mutation on Escherichia coli outer membrane proteins and lipopolysaccharide
    Emily S Charlson
    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 4501, USA
    J Bacteriol 188:7186-94. 2006
  9. ncbi Down-regulation of porins by a small RNA bypasses the essentiality of the regulated intramembrane proteolysis protease RseP in Escherichia coli
    Véronique Douchin
    Signalisation et Réseaux de Régulations Bactériens, Institut de Genetique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR8621 IFR115, Centre Scientifique d Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
    J Biol Chem 281:12253-9. 2006
  10. ncbi The targeting pathway of Escherichia coli presecretory and integral membrane proteins is specified by the hydrophobicity of the targeting signal
    H C Lee
    Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 9D 20, Bethesda, MD 20892 1810, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:3471-6. 2001

Scientific Experts

  • Jörg H Kleinschmidt
  • Pietro Gatti-Lafranconi
  • Lise Petersen
  • Stephen G J Smith
  • Maria U Johansson
  • Klas I Udekwu
  • Cécile Lelong
  • M L Power
  • C Hilty
  • R Koebnik
  • Ying Wang
  • J E Wertz
  • Ravi Maruvada
  • Jian Qu
  • Otto Holst
  • Cosmin L Pocanschi
  • Anders Aamann Rasmussen
  • Sooan Shin
  • Alexander Negoda
  • Ying Tang
  • Taras Afonyushkin
  • Isabella Moll
  • Rosmarie Friemann
  • Troy A Walton
  • Geetika J Patel
  • Angela A Lilly
  • Nico Nouwen
  • Qun Ma
  • Erik Martinez-Hackert
  • Rosetta N Reusch
  • O Vytvytska
  • Nancy K Burgess
  • Alicia Muela
  • Holger Thie
  • Johannes H Urban
  • Erlend Bore
  • Mo Xian
  • Arnold J M Driessen
  • Lukas K Tamm
  • Heedeok Hong
  • Rowan Orme
  • Mark V Baev
  • Emily S Charlson
  • Véronique Douchin
  • José Marques Andrade
  • Jesper Johansen
  • Tomasz Cierpicki
  • Bijoy K Mohanty
  • Tara K Sigdel
  • Jean Luc Popot
  • Jean-Luc Popot
  • Poul Valentin-Hansen
  • Ranjeeta Hari-Dass
  • Brian H Lower
  • Susanne Behrens
  • Manuela Zoonens
  • Muthu Ramakrishnan
  • Kwang Sik Kim
  • Thomas Henry
  • Uri Gophna
  • Hiroyuki Ueno
  • Peter J Bond
  • E Zakharian
  • Liang Yi
  • Janine H Peterson
  • Jeanine de Keyzer
  • Udo Blasi
  • Paula V Bulieris
  • Gottfried Eisner
  • Deepshikha Datta
  • Manuel Ferrer
  • Vladimir R Kaberdin
  • Naveed Ahmed Khan
  • Penelope I Higgs
  • M Winterhalter
  • H Etz
  • H C Lee
  • A Arora
  • Phang C Tai
  • Elena Negoda
  • Sen Fang Sui
  • Xijiang Pan
  • J le Coutre
  • A von Gabain
  • Linda L Randall
  • Thomas K Wood
  • Marcelo C Sousa
  • Susanne Behrens-Kneip
  • Jennine M Crane
  • Wayne A Hendrickson

Detail Information

Publications96

  1. ncbi The structure of SecB/OmpA as visualized by electron microscopy: The mature region of the precursor protein binds asymmetrically to SecB
    Ying Tang
    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun 393:698-702. 2010
    ..the binding pattern of SecB and the mature region of the preprotein, here, we visualized the structure of the SecB/OmpA complex by electron microscopy...
  2. ncbi Escherichia coli interaction with human brain microvascular endothelial cells induces signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 association with the C-terminal domain of Ec-gp96, the outer membrane protein A receptor for invasion
    Ravi Maruvada
    Division of Infectious Diseases, The Saban Research Institute, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
    Cell Microbiol 10:2326-38. 2008
    ..Together, our findings identified a novel interaction of Stat3 with Ec-gp96, upstream of PI3-kinase and PKC-alpha activation that is required for the invasion of E. coli into HBMEC...
  3. ncbi Proteomic analysis of Escherichia coli biofilms reveals the overexpression of the outer membrane protein OmpA
    Rowan Orme
    University of Manchester, Faculty of Medicine and Human Health, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Manchester, UK
    Proteomics 6:4269-77. 2006
    ..report we have used proteomic analysis coupled with immunoassays to show that the major outer membrane protein (OmpA) of Escherichia coli is overexpressed during biofilm formation...
  4. ncbi Conserved small non-coding RNAs that belong to the sigmaE regulon: role in down-regulation of outer membrane proteins
    Jesper Johansen
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK 5230, Odense M, Denmark
    J Mol Biol 364:1-8. 2006
    ..Recently MicA was shown to act in destabilizing the ompA transcript when rapidly grown cells entered the stationary phase of growth...
  5. ncbi A naturally occurring novel allele of Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A reduces sensitivity to bacteriophage
    Michelle L Power
    Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:7930-2. 2006
    A novel Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A (OmpA) was discovered through a proteomic investigation of cell surface proteins...
  6. ncbi The ompA 5' untranslated RNA segment functions in Escherichia coli as a growth-rate-regulated mRNA stabilizer whose activity is unrelated to translational efficiency
    S A Emory
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
    J Bacteriol 172:4472-81. 1990
    The 5' untranslated region (UTR) of the long-lived Escherichia coli ompA message can function in vivo as an mRNA stabilizer...
  7. ncbi Coincident Hfq binding and RNase E cleavage sites on mRNA and small regulatory RNAs
    Isabella Moll
    Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University Departments at the Vienna Biocenter, Dr Bohrgasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria
    RNA 9:1308-14. 2003
    ..More recent work suggested a role of Hfq in cellular physiology through its interaction with ompA mRNA and small RNAs (sRNAs), some of which are involved in translational regulation...
  8. ncbi Differential effects of yfgL mutation on Escherichia coli outer membrane proteins and lipopolysaccharide
    Emily S Charlson
    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 4501, USA
    J Bacteriol 188:7186-94. 2006
    ..Without YfgL, the levels of OmpA, OmpF, and LamB are significantly reduced, while OmpC levels are slightly reduced...
  9. ncbi Down-regulation of porins by a small RNA bypasses the essentiality of the regulated intramembrane proteolysis protease RseP in Escherichia coli
    Véronique Douchin
    Signalisation et Réseaux de Régulations Bactériens, Institut de Genetique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR8621 IFR115, Centre Scientifique d Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
    J Biol Chem 281:12253-9. 2006
    ..We used the property that small RNAs are often involved in RNA-RNA interactions to capture RseX putative partners; ompA and ompC mRNA, which encode two major outer membrane proteins, were identified...
  10. ncbi The targeting pathway of Escherichia coli presecretory and integral membrane proteins is specified by the hydrophobicity of the targeting signal
    H C Lee
    Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 9D 20, Bethesda, MD 20892 1810, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:3471-6. 2001
    ..have demonstrated that presecretory proteins such as maltose binding protein (MBP) and outer membrane protein A (OmpA) are targeted to the Escherichia coli inner membrane by the molecular chaperone SecB, but that integral membrane ..
  11. ncbi Regulation of ompA mRNA stability: the role of a small regulatory RNA in growth phase-dependent control
    Anders Aamann Rasmussen
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK 5230 Odense M, Denmark
    Mol Microbiol 58:1421-9. 2005
    The Escherichia coli ompA mRNA, encoding a highly abundant outer membrane protein, has served as a model for regulated mRNA decay in bacteria...
  12. ncbi Hfq-dependent regulation of OmpA synthesis is mediated by an antisense RNA
    Klas I Udekwu
    Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, S 75124 Uppsala, Sweden
    Genes Dev 19:2355-66. 2005
    This paper shows that the small RNA MicA (previously SraD) is an antisense regulator of ompA in Escherichia coli. MicA accumulates upon entry into stationary phase and down-regulates the level of ompA mRNA...
  13. ncbi Nucleotide sequence of the gene ompA coding the outer membrane protein II of Escherichia coli K-12
    E Beck
    Nucleic Acids Res 8:3011-27. 1980
    A nucleotide sequence of 2271 basepairs has been determined from cloned E. coli DNA which contains ompA. Withing that sequence, starting at nucleotide 1037, an open translational reading frame encodes a protein of 367 amino acids which ..
  14. ncbi Simultaneous force and fluorescence measurements of a protein that forms a bond between a living bacterium and a solid surface
    Brian H Lower
    Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
    J Bacteriol 187:2127-37. 2005
    ..The chimera was composed of a portion of outer membrane protein A (OmpA) fused to the cyan-fluorescent protein AmCyan...
  15. ncbi MD simulations of spontaneous membrane protein/detergent micelle formation
    Peter J Bond
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
    J Am Chem Soc 126:15948-9. 2004
    ..formation around representatives of the two major families of membrane proteins, a small beta-barrel protein, OmpA, and a model alpha-helical protein, glycophorin A...
  16. ncbi Phage-induced change in the stability of mRNAs
    Hiroyuki Ueno
    Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1 1 Machikaneyama cho, Toyonaka shi, Osaka 560 0043, Japan
    Virology 329:134-41. 2004
    ..Stable E. coli mRNAs such as lpp and ompA were drastically destabilized immediately after infection...
  17. ncbi Improved methods for producing outer membrane vesicles in Gram-negative bacteria
    Thomas Henry
    Centre d immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille 9, France
    Res Microbiol 155:437-46. 2004
    ..coli or Shigella flexneri cell envelope and to induce production of high amounts of vesicles. This technique was further found to work efficiently in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium...
  18. ncbi A molecular phylogeny of enteric bacteria and implications for a bacterial species concept
    J E Wertz
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
    J Evol Biol 16:1236-48. 2003
    ..Sequences from five housekeeping genes (gapA, groEL, gyrA, ompA, and pgi) and the 16S rRNA gene were used to infer individual gene trees and were concatenated to infer a composite ..
  19. ncbi Temperature-dependent stability and translation of Escherichia coli ompA mRNA
    Taras Afonyushkin
    Department of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna, Dr Bohrgasse 9 4, A 1030 Vienna, Austria
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun 311:604-9. 2003
    RNase E is known to affect the turnover of ompA mRNA in a growth rate-dependent manner...
  20. ncbi YidC is strictly required for membrane insertion of subunits a and c of the F(1)F(0)ATP synthase and SecE of the SecYEG translocase
    Liang Yi
    Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
    Biochemistry 42:10537-44. 2003
    ..In contrast, we found that protein export of OmpA is severely blocked at 25 degrees C when YidC is depleted, which may be due to the decreased SecE level, as a 50% ..
  21. ncbi Outer membrane protein A and cytotoxic necrotizing factor-1 use diverse signaling mechanisms for Escherichia coli K1 invasion of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Naveed Ahmed Khan
    Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Microb Pathog 35:35-42. 2003
    ..We previously have shown that outer membrane protein A (OmpA) and cytotoxic necrotizing factor-1 (CNF1) contribute to E. coli K1 invasion of BMEC...
  22. ncbi Direct demonstration of ATP-dependent release of SecA from a translocating preprotein by surface plasmon resonance
    Jeanine de Keyzer
    Department of Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
    J Biol Chem 278:29581-6. 2003
    ..SecA binds tightly to the SecYEG.proOmpA complex and is released only upon ATP hydrolysis. The results provide direct evidence for a model in which SecA cycles at the SecYEG complex during translocation...
  23. ncbi Folding and insertion of the outer membrane protein OmpA is assisted by the chaperone Skp and by lipopolysaccharide
    Paula V Bulieris
    Fachbereich Biologie, Fach M 694, Universitat Konstanz, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
    J Biol Chem 278:9092-9. 2003
    We have studied the folding pathway of a beta-barrel membrane protein using outer membrane protein A (OmpA) of Escherichia coli as an example...
  24. ncbi Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A adheres to human brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Sooan Shin
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Biochem Biophys Res Commun 330:1199-204. 2005
    ..The outer membrane protein A (OmpA) assembles a beta-barrel structure having four surface-exposed loops in E. coli outer membrane...
  25. ncbi Bacterial phage receptors, versatile tools for display of polypeptides on the cell surface
    H Etz
    Antigen Discovery Group, Intercell Biomedizinische Forschungs und Entwicklungs AG, Rennweg 95B, 1030 Vienna, Austria
    J Bacteriol 183:6924-35. 2001
    ..In contrast, the receptors of the phages K3 and lambda, OmpA and LamB, accepted only insertions in their respective loop 4 of up to 40 amino acids containing the T7 tag...
  26. ncbi Promiscuous substrate recognition in folding and assembly activities of the trigger factor chaperone
    Erik Martinez-Hackert
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Cell 138:923-34. 2009
    ..The structure of the complex reveals the molecular basis of substrate recognition by TF, indicates how TF could accelerate protein folding, and suggests a role for TF in the biogenesis of protein complexes...
  27. ncbi OmpA influences Escherichia coli biofilm formation by repressing cellulose production through the CpxRA two-component system
    Qun Ma
    Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843 3122, USA
    Environ Microbiol 11:2735-46. 2009
    Previously we discovered that OmpA of Escherichia coli increases biofilm formation on polystyrene surfaces (González Barrios et al., Biotechnol Bioeng, 93:188-200, 2006a)...
  28. ncbi Charged amino acids in a preprotein inhibit SecA-dependent protein translocation
    Nico Nouwen
    Department of Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
    J Mol Biol 386:1000-10. 2009
    ..These results indicate that both clusters of positively and negatively charged amino acids are poor substrates for the Sec translocase and that this is reflected by their inability to stimulate the ATPase activity of SecA...
  29. ncbi Changes in Escherichia coli outer membrane subproteome under environmental conditions inducing the viable but nonculturable state
    Alicia Muela
    Departamento de Inmunologia, Microbiologia y Parasitologia, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 64:28-36. 2008
    ..However, proteins exclusive to the VBNC state were not detected...
  30. ncbi The trimeric periplasmic chaperone Skp of Escherichia coli forms 1:1 complexes with outer membrane proteins via hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions
    Jian Qu
    Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Universitatsstrasse 10, D 78464 Konstanz, Germany
    J Mol Biol 374:91-105. 2007
    ..We have examined the binding of Skp to various OMPs of different origin, size, and function. These were OmpA, OmpG, and YaeT (Omp85) from Escherichia coli, the translocator domain of the autotransporter NalP from Neisseria ..
  31. ncbi Genes under positive selection in Escherichia coli
    Lise Petersen
    Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK 2200, Denmark
    Genome Res 17:1336-43. 2007
    ..Based on structural evidence, we hypothesize that the selection acting on transposases is related to the genomic conflict between transposable elements and the host genome...
  32. ncbi Sorting signal of Escherichia coli OmpA is modified by oligo-(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate
    Mo Xian
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    Biochim Biophys Acta 1768:2660-6. 2007
    Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A (OmpA) is a well-established model for the study of membrane assembly...
  33. ncbi Adapted tolerance to benzalkonium chloride in Escherichia coli K-12 studied by transcriptome and proteome analyses
    Erlend Bore
    MATFORSK, Norwegian Food Research Institute, Osloveien 1, N 1430 As, Norway
    Microbiology 153:935-46. 2007
    ..The results revealed that BC treatment might result in superoxide stress in E. coli...
  34. ncbi Amphipathic polymers: tools to fold integral membrane proteins to their active form
    Cosmin L Pocanschi
    Fachbereich Biologie, Fach M 694, Universitat Konstanz, D 78457 Konstanz, Germany
    Biochemistry 45:13954-61. 2006
    ..The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated using as models OmpA and FomA, two outer membrane proteins from the eubacteria Escherichia coli and Fusobacterium nucleatum, ..
  35. ncbi Electrostatic couplings in OmpA ion-channel gating suggest a mechanism for pore opening
    Heedeok Hong
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health System, PO Box 800736, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 0736, USA
    Nat Chem Biol 2:627-35. 2006
    ..The gate of the OmpA channel is formed by the central Glu52-Arg138 salt bridge, which can open to form alternate ion pairs with Lys82 ..
  36. ncbi The majority of Escherichia coli mRNAs undergo post-transcriptional modification in exponentially growing cells
    Bijoy K Mohanty
    Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 34:5695-704. 2006
    ..PCR analysis indicates that the extent of polyadenylation of individual full-length transcripts such as lpp and ompA varies significantly in wild-type cells. The data presented here demonstrates that polyadenylation in E...
  37. ncbi Probing the adaptive response of Escherichia coli to extracellular Zn(II)
    Tara K Sigdel
    Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, 112 Hughes Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
    Biometals 19:461-71. 2006
    ..coli proteins, and the results are discussed in light of recent genomic profiling studies on the adaptive response of E. coli cells to stress by Zn(II) excess...
  38. ncbi Interaction of E. coli outer-membrane protein A with sugars on the receptors of the brain microvascular endothelial cells
    Deepshikha Datta
    Materials and Process Simulation Center MC 139 74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
    Proteins 50:213-21. 2003
    ..Experimental studies have shown that outer-membrane protein A (OmpA) of E...
  39. ncbi The influence of amino substitutions within the mature part of an Escherichia coli outer membrane protein (OmpA) on assembly of the polypeptide into its membrane
    M Klose
    Max Planck Institut fur Biologie, Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
    J Biol Chem 263:13297-302. 1988
    The membrane part of the 325-residue outer membrane protein OmpA of Escherichia coli encompasses residues 1-177...
  40. ncbi OmpA protein of Escherichia coli outer membrane occurs in open and closed channel forms
    E Sugawara
    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720 3206
    J Biol Chem 269:17981-7. 1994
    b>OmpA protein of Escherichia coli outer membrane can produce diffusion channels when reconstituted into proteoliposomes (Sugawara, E., and Nikaido, H. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 2507-2511)...
  41. ncbi Kinetics of folding and membrane insertion of a beta-barrel membrane protein
    T Surrey
    Max Planck Institut fur Biologie, Abteilung Membranbiochemie, Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
    J Biol Chem 270:28199-203. 1995
    We have studied the kinetics of folding and membrane insertion of the outer membrane protein OmpA of Escherichia coli. In the native structure, its membrane-inserted domain forms a beta-barrel...
  42. ncbi Interaction of cAMP receptor protein with the ompA gene, a gene for a major outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli
    R N Movva
    FEBS Lett 128:186-90. 1981
  43. ncbi Primary structure of major outer membrane protein II (ompA protein) of Escherichia coli K-12
    R Chen
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 77:4592-6. 1980
    The amino acid sequence of major outer membrane protein II (ompA protein) from Escherichia coli K-12 has been determined. The transmembrane polypeptide consists of 325 residues, resulting in a molecular weight of 35,159...
  44. ncbi Resistance to apramycin in Escherichia coli isolated from animals: detection of a novel aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme
    R W Hedges
    J Gen Microbiol 130:473-82. 1984
    ..Synthesis of this enzyme was specified by a chromosomal gene located near pyrD at about 20 min on the map of the E. coli K12 chromosome...
  45. ncbi Characterisation of the promoters for the ompA gene which encodes a major outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli
    S T Cole
    Mol Gen Genet 188:472-9. 1982
    The regulatory region of the ompA gene from Escherichia coli has been characterized by biochemical and genetic approaches...
  46. ncbi Resolving the native conformation of Escherichia coli OmpA
    Alexander Negoda
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
    FEBS J 277:4427-37. 2010
    The native conformation of the 325-residue outer membrane protein A (OmpA) of Escherichia coli has been a matter of contention. A narrow-pore, two-domain structure has vied with a large-pore, single-domain structure...
  47. ncbi Internal deletions in the gene for an Escherichia coli outer membrane protein define an area possibly important for recognition of the outer membrane by this polypeptide
    M Klose
    Max Planck Institut fur Biologie, Tubingen, Federal Republic of Germany
    J Biol Chem 263:13291-6. 1988
    A series of overlapping deletions has been constructed in the ompA gene which encodes the 325-residue Escherichia coli outer membrane protein OmpA...
  48. ncbi Decay of ompA mRNA and processing of 9S RNA are immediately affected by shifts in growth rate, but in opposite manners
    D Georgellis
    Karolinska Institute, Department of Bacteriology, Stockholm, Sweden
    J Bacteriol 174:5382-90. 1992
    ..coli in continuous cultures at various growth rates, we provide definitive evidence that the stability of the ompA mRNA is growth rate dependent...
  49. ncbi A 5'-terminal stem-loop structure can stabilize mRNA in Escherichia coli
    S A Emory
    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
    Genes Dev 6:135-48. 1992
    The 5'-untranslated region of the long-lived Escherichia coli ompA transcript functions as an mRNA stabilizer capable of prolonging the lifetime in E. coli of a number of heterologous messages to which it is fused...
  50. ncbi Major proteins of the Escherichia coli outer cell envelope membrane. Interaction of protein II with lipopolysaccharide
    M Schweizer
    Eur J Biochem 82:211-7. 1978
  51. ncbi Major proteins of the Escherichia coli outer cell envelope membrane as bacteriophage receptors
    D B Datta
    J Bacteriol 131:821-9. 1977
    ..In addition, the association of proteins Ia and Ib with the murein layer of the cell envelope makes this pair trans-membrane proteins...
  52. ncbi Prediction of transmembrane beta-strands from hydrophobic characteristics of proteins
    M M Gromiha
    Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
    Int J Pept Protein Res 42:420-31. 1993
    ..The predicted beta-structure contents in OmpA, porin from E. coli and maltoporin compared with the Raman spectroscopic results at 95% level...
  53. ncbi Hfq (HF1) stimulates ompA mRNA decay by interfering with ribosome binding
    O Vytvytska
    Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna Biocenter, 1030 Vienna, Austria
    Genes Dev 14:1109-18. 2000
    ..The Escherichia coli ompA mRNA has served as one of the paradigms for regulated mRNA decay in prokaryotes...
  54. ncbi Polyphosphate kinase is a component of the Escherichia coli RNA degradosome
    E Blum
    Nuffield Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
    Mol Microbiol 26:387-98. 1997
    ..An E. coli strain deleted for the ppk gene showed increased stability of the ompA mRNA. Purified His-tagged PPK was shown to bind RNA, and RNA binding was prevented by hydrolysable ATP...
  55. ncbi Structural and functional roles of the surface-exposed loops of the beta-barrel membrane protein OmpA from Escherichia coli
    R Koebnik
    Max Planck Institut fur Biologie, Abteilung Mikrobiologie, D 72076 Tubingen, Germany
    J Bacteriol 181:3688-94. 1999
    The N-terminal domain of the OmpA protein from Escherichia coli, consisting of 170 amino acid residues, is embedded in the outer membrane, in the form of an antiparallel beta-barrel whose eight transmembrane beta-strands are connected by ..
  56. ncbi TonB interacts with nonreceptor proteins in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli
    Penelope I Higgs
    School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164 4233, USA
    J Bacteriol 184:1640-8. 2002
    ..Subsequently, two additional contacts of TonB with the outer membrane proteins Lpp and, putatively, OmpA were identified by in vivo cross-linking...
  57. ncbi Structure of outer membrane protein A transmembrane domain by NMR spectroscopy
    A Arora
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 0736, USA
    Nat Struct Biol 8:334-8. 2001
    ..Moreover, data from NMR dynamic experiments reveal a gradient of conformational flexibility in the structure that may contribute to the membrane channel function of this protein...
  58. ncbi Host factor I, Hfq, binds to Escherichia coli ompA mRNA in a growth rate-dependent fashion and regulates its stability
    O Vytvytska
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    Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Physiology and of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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    Fachbereich Biologie, Universitat Konstanz, Germany
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    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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    Max Planck Institut fur biophysikalische Chemie, Abt Spektroskopie, 37070 Gottingen, Germany
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    The outer-membrane proteins OmpA and FhuA of Escherichia coli are monomeric beta-barrels of widely differing size...
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    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0736, USA
    J Mol Biol 324:319-30. 2002
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    Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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    Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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    The temperature dependence of single-channel conductance and open probability for outer membrane protein A (OmpA) of Escherichia coli were examined in planar lipid bilayers...
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    Integrated Genomics Inc, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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    Fachbereich Biologie, Fach M 694, Universitat Konstanz, Germany
    Chem Phys Lipids 141:30-47. 2006
    ..mechanism of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Gram-negative bacteria into lipid bilayers has been studied using OmpA of E. coli and FomA of F. nucleatum as examples...
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    Laboratoire Adaptation et Pathogenie des Microorganismes, Institut Jean Roget, Domaine de la Merci, Universite Joseph Fourier, BP 170, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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    Tomasz Cierpicki
    Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
    J Am Chem Soc 128:6947-51. 2006
    ..Here we demonstrate that significant improvement in the structure accuracy of the membrane protein OmpA can be achieved by refinement with residual dipolar couplings (RDCs)...
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    A number of T-even-like bacteriophages use the outer membrane protein OmpA of Escherichia coli as a receptor...
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    Nat Biotechnol 21:1266-7. 2003
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    J Bacteriol 159:570-8. 1984
    The outer membrane protein OmpA of Escherichia coli K-12 serves as a receptor for a number of T-even-like phages. We have isolated a series of ompA mutants which are resistant to such phages but which still produce the OmpA protein...
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    Nancy K Burgess
    T C Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
    J Biol Chem 283:26748-58. 2008
    ..We cloned, expressed, and folded nine OMPs: outer membrane protein X (OmpX), OmpW, OmpA, the crcA gene product (PagP), OmpT, outer membrane phospholipase A (OmpLa), the fadl gene product (FadL), the yaet ..
  89. ncbi Pore-forming activity of OmpA protein of Escherichia coli
    E Sugawara
    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
    J Biol Chem 267:2507-11. 1992
    Escherichia coli outer membrane protein OmpA was purified to homogeneity, as a monomer, from a K12 derivative deficient in both OmpF and OmpC porins...
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    A Pautsch
    Institut fur Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Albert Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
    Nat Struct Biol 5:1013-7. 1998
    The outer membrane protein A of Escherichia coli (OmpA) is an intensely studied example in the field of membrane protein folding...
  91. ncbi RNase R affects gene expression in stationary phase: regulation of ompA
    José Marques Andrade
    Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Apartado 127, 2781 901 Oeiras, Portugal
    Mol Microbiol 60:219-28. 2006
    ..demonstrate that RNase R is induced in stationary phase and is involved in the post-transcriptional regulation of ompA mRNA. This work is the first report of RNase R activity on a full length mRNA...
  92. ncbi Translational control and target recognition by Escherichia coli small RNAs in vivo
    Johannes H Urban
    Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, RNA Biology Group, Chariteplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
    Nucleic Acids Res 35:1018-37. 2007
    ..g. despite the fact that ompA fusion mRNA decay could no longer be promoted by MicA. This is the first study in which multiple well-defined E...