1. A Single Amino Acid Substitution Changes the Self-Assembly Status of a Type IV Piliation Secretin
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Mohamed Chami, Anthony P. Pugsley, Nicholas N. Nickerson, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Sophie S. Abby, Génétique Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Génomique évolutive des Microbes / Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Center for Cellular Imaging and NanoAnalytics, Biozentrum [Basel, Suisse], University of Basel (Unibas)-University of Basel (Unibas), This work was supported in part by grants ANR-05-0307-01 and ANR-09-BLAN-0291. N.N.N. was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Louis Pasteur Foundation during part of this work., ANR-09-BLAN-0291,Secretin(2009), and Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Inovirus ,medicine.disease_cause ,digestive system ,Microbiology ,Insert (molecular biology) ,03 medical and health sciences ,fluids and secretions ,Secretin ,Extracellular ,medicine ,Cluster Analysis ,Secretion ,Molecular Biology ,Phylogeny ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Mutation ,[SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,Bacteria ,Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ,biology ,030306 microbiology ,Articles ,biology.organism_classification ,[SDV.BIBS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Quantitative Methods [q-bio.QM] ,digestive system diseases ,In vitro ,Amino Acid Substitution ,Filamentous bacteriophage ,Biochemistry ,Liposomes ,Mutant Proteins ,Fimbriae Proteins ,Protein Multimerization ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists ,Function (biology) - Abstract
Secretins form large multimeric complexes in the outer membranes of many Gram-negative bacteria, where they function as dedicated gateways that allow proteins to access the extracellular environment. Despite their overall relatedness, different secretins use different specific and general mechanisms for their targeting, assembly, and membrane insertion. We report that all tested secretins from several type II secretion systems and from the filamentous bacteriophage f1 can spontaneously multimerize and insert into liposomes in anin vitrotranscription-translation system. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that these secretins form a group distinct from the secretins of the type IV piliation and type III secretion systems, which do not autoassemblein vitro. A mutation causing a proline-to-leucine substitution allowed PilQ secretins from two different type IV piliation systems to assemblein vitro, albeit with very low efficiency, suggesting that autoassembly is an inherent property of all secretins.
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- 2012
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