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Appl. Environ. Microbiol., Feb 1996, 480-485, Vol 62, No. 2
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

Outer Membrane Protein Heterogeneity within Pseudomonas fluorescens and P. putida and Use of an OprF Antibody as a Probe for rRNA Homology Group I Pseudomonads

L Kragelund, K Leopold and O Nybroe
Microbiology Section, Department of Ecology and Molecular Biology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark

The electrophoretic patterns of outer membrane proteins of strains representing the biovars of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas putida were analyzed by gel electrophoresis. The outer membrane protein profiles were variable, and they were not useful for assigning strains to a specific biovar. However, three or four predominant outer membrane proteins migrating at 42 to 46 kDa, 33 to 38 kDa, and 20 to 22 kDa were conserved among the strains. They could be tentatively identified as OprE (44 kDa), OprF (38 kDa), OprH (21 kDa), and OprL (20.5 kDa), which are known proteins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A 37-kDa OprF-like protein was purified from P. fluorescens DF57 and used to raise a polyclonal antibody. In Western blot (immunoblot) analysis, this antibody reacted with OprF proteins from members of Pseudomonas rRNA homology group I but not with proteins from nonpseudomonads. The heterogeneity in M(infr) of OprF was greater among P. fluorescens strains than among P. putida strains. Immunofluorescence microscopy of intact cells demonstrated that the antibody recognized epitopes that were accessible only after unmasking by EDTA treatment. The antibody was used in a colony blotting assay to determine the percentage of rRNA homology group I pseudomonads among bacteria from the rhizosphere of barley. The bacteria were isolated on 10% tryptic soy agar, King's B agar, and the pseudomonad-specific medium Gould S1 agar. The estimate of OprF-containing CFU in rhizosphere soil obtained by colony blotting on 10% tryptic soy agar was about 2 and 14 times higher than the values obtained from King's agar and Gould S1 agar, respectively, indicating that not all fluorescent pseudomonads are scored on more specific media. The colonies reacting with the OprF antibody were verified as being rRNA homology group I pseudomonads by using the API 20NE system.

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