Improvement in K+-limited growth rate associated with expression of the N-terminal fragment of one subunit (KdpA) of the multisubunit Kdp transporter in Escherichia coli.

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Mutations in any one of three genes, kdpA, -B, or -C, in Escherichia coli abolish the activity of Kdp, a multisubunit K+-ATPase that belongs to the P-type ATPase family of cation transporters. We found in this study that expression in vivo of a 135-amino-acid-long N-terminal fragment (KdpA'), less than one-quarter the length of native KdpA, was able to mediate an improvement in K+-limited growth rates in two...

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