Outer membrane proteome and its regulation networks in response to glucose concentration changes in Escherichia coli.

Escherichia coli growth is a complicated process involved in many factors including the utilization of glucose. It has been reported that E. coli cell growth rate is closely related with glucose concentrations in the cell culture medium.

Gut SCP is an immune-relevant molecule involved in the primary immunological memory or pattern recognition in the amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri.

To understand the role of calcium-binding proteins of invertebrates in immunological response, amphioxus sarcoplasmic calcium-binding protein (SCP) was investigated in the present study. Following gene cloning, recombinant protein expression and purification and antibody preparation, the expression and alteration of SCP in the response to bacterial challenge were detected using Western blotting. SCP was not detected in the branchia, humoral fluid, gonad or in the gut of wounded animals, but it was abundant in muscle and appeared in the gut of healthy animals using Vibrio parahaemolyticus immunization and challenge.

A novel negative regulation mechanism of bacterial outer membrane proteins in response to antibiotic resistance.

Although some outer membrane (OM) proteins involved in antibiotic resistance have been previously reported, the OM proteins regulating chlortetracycline (CTC) resistance are largely unknown. In this study, we employed a subproteomics approach to identify altered OM proteins of Escherichia coli in response to CTC exposure. Upregulation of TolC and downregulation of LamB, FadL, OmpC, OmpT, and OmpW were found in E.