Docking and Assembly of the Type II Secretion Complex of Vibrio cholerae

被引:54
作者
Lybarger, Suzanne R. [1 ]
Johnson, Tanya L. [1 ]
Gray, Miranda D. [1 ]
Sikora, Aleksandra E. [1 ]
Sandkvist, Maria [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Sch Med, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
ESCHERICHIA-COLI; PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA; OUTER-MEMBRANE; PROTEIN SECRETION; TOXIN SECRETION; EXTRACELLULAR SECRETION; ERWINIA-CHRYSANTHEMI; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; CELL-SHAPE; PATHWAY;
D O I
10.1128/JB.01701-08
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Secretion of cholera toxin and other virulence factors from Vibrio cholerae is mediated by the type II secretion (T2S) apparatus, a multiprotein complex composed of both inner and outer membrane proteins. To better understand the mechanism by which the T2S complex coordinates translocation of its substrates, we are examining the protein-protein interactions of its components, encoded by the extracellular protein secretion (eps) genes. In this study, we took a cell biological approach, observing the dynamics of fluorescently tagged EpsC and EpsM proteins in vivo. We report that the level and context of fluorescent protein fusion expression can have a bold effect on subcellular location and that chromosomal, intraoperon expression conditions are optimal for determining the intracellular locations of fusion proteins. Fluorescently tagged, chromosomally expressed EpsC and EpsM form discrete foci along the lengths of the cells, different from the polar localization for green fluorescent protein (GFP)-EpsM previously described, as the fusions are balanced with all their interacting partner proteins within the T2S complex. Additionally, we observed that fluorescent foci in both chromosomal GFP-EpsC- and GFP-EpsM-expressing strains disperse upon deletion of epsD, suggesting that EpsD is critical to the localization of EpsC and EpsM and perhaps their assembly into the T2S complex.
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页码:3149 / 3161
页数:13
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