Abstract
We found that the presence of plasmids expressing tetracycline resistance or chloramphenicol resistance genes, but not those expressing ampicillin resistance or kanamycin resistance genes, in Escherichia coli led to the retardation of the process of removal of the heat-aggregated proteins (i.e. the S fraction) from the bacterial cells. The presence of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in the S fraction is demonstrated. Moreover, we observed that the expression of T7 RNA polymerase gene had an influence on S fraction removal. These results suggest that high level production of some heterologous proteins which are accumulated in the cytoplasm, but not proteins exported through the cell membranes, may cause overloading of the S fraction and delay in the removal of heat-aggregated proteins from bacterial cells.
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