LeoA, B and C from enterotoxigenic escherichia coli (ETEC) are bacterial dynamins
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Author(s)
Michie, Katharine A
Boysen, Anders
Low, Harry H
Moller-Jensen, Jakob
Loewe, Jan
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain H10407 contains a GTPase virulence factor, LeoA, which is encoded on a pathogenicity island and has been shown to enhance toxin release, potentially through vesicle secretion. By sequence comparisons and X-ray structure determination we now identify LeoA as a bacterial dynamin-like protein (DLP). Proteins of the dynamin family remodel membranes and were once thought to be restricted to eukaryotes. In ETEC H10407 LeoA localises to the periplasm where it forms a punctate localisation pattern. Bioinformatic analyses of leoA and the two upstream genes leoB and leoC suggest that LeoA works in concert with a second dynamin-like protein, made up of LeoB and LeoC. Disruption of the leoAB genes leads to a reduction in secretion of periplasmic Tat-GFP and outer membrane OmpA. Our data suggest a role for LeoABC dynamin-like proteins in potentiating virulence through membrane vesicle associated toxin secretion.
Date Issued
2014-09-09
Date Acceptance
2014-08-13
Citation
PLoS One, 2014, 9 (9), pp.1-10
ISSN
1932-6203
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Start Page
1
End Page
10
Journal / Book Title
PLoS One
Volume
9
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© 2014 Michie et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
HEAT-LABILE ENTEROTOXIN
CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE
CHROMOSOMAL GENES
PROTEIN
OLIGOMERIZATION
REFINEMENT
SECRETION
SOFTWARE
DOMAIN
MODEL
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e107211
Date Publish Online
2014-09-09