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Nariya MK, Mallela A, Shi JJ, Deeds EJ. Robustness and the evolution of length control strategies in the T3SS and flagellar hook. Biophys J 2021; 120:3820-3830. [PMID: 34246629 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Bacterial cells construct many structures, such as the flagellar hook and the type III secretion system (T3SS) injectisome, that aid in crucial physiological processes such as locomotion and pathogenesis. Both of these structures involve long extracellular channels, and the length of these channels must be highly regulated in order for these structures to perform their intended functions. There are two leading models for how length control is achieved in the flagellar hook and T3SS needle: the substrate switching model, in which the length is controlled by assembly of an inner rod, and the ruler model, in which a molecular ruler controls the length. Although there is qualitative experimental evidence to support both models, comparatively little has been done to quantitatively characterize these mechanisms or make detailed predictions that could be used to unambiguously test these mechanisms experimentally. In this work, we constructed a mathematical model of length control based on the ruler mechanism and found that the predictions of this model are consistent with experimental data-not just for the scaling of the average length with the ruler protein length, but also for the variance. Interestingly, we found that the ruler mechanism allows for the evolution of needles with large average lengths without the concomitant large increase in variance that occurs in the substrate switching mechanism. In addition to making further predictions that can be tested experimentally, these findings shed new light on the trade-offs that may have led to the evolution of different length control mechanisms in different bacterial species.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maulik K Nariya
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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- Center for Computational Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
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Hajra D, Nair AV, Chakravortty D. An elegant nano-injection machinery for sabotaging the host: Role of Type III secretion system in virulence of different human and animal pathogenic bacteria. Phys Life Rev 2021; 38:25-54. [PMID: 34090822 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2021.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Various Gram-negative bacteria possess a specialized membrane-bound protein secretion system known as the Type III secretion system (T3SS), which transports the bacterial effector proteins into the host cytosol thereby helping in bacterial pathogenesis. The T3SS has a special needle-like translocon that can sense the contact with the host cell membrane and translocate effectors. The export apparatus of T3SS recognizes these effector proteins bound to chaperones and translocates them into the host cell. Once in the host cell cytoplasm, these effector proteins result in modulation of the host system and promote bacterial localization and infection. Using molecular biology, bioinformatics, genetic techniques, electron microscopic studies, and mathematical modeling, the structure and function of the T3SS and the corresponding effector proteins in various bacteria have been studied. The strategies used by different human pathogenic bacteria to modulate the host system and thereby enhance their virulence mechanism using T3SS have also been well studied. Here we review the history, evolution, and general structure of the T3SS, highlighting the details of its comparison with the flagellar export machinery. Also, this article provides mechanistic details about the common role of T3SS in subversion and manipulation of host cellular processes. Additionally, this review describes specific T3SS apparatus and the role of their specific effectors in bacterial pathogenesis by considering several human and animal pathogenic bacteria.
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- Dipasree Hajra
- Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, India
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- Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, India
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Mallela A, Nariya MK, Deeds EJ. Crosstalk and ultrasensitivity in protein degradation pathways. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1008492. [PMID: 33370258 PMCID: PMC7793289 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Protein turnover is vital to cellular homeostasis. Many proteins are degraded efficiently only after they have been post-translationally “tagged” with a polyubiquitin chain. Ubiquitylation is a form of Post-Translational Modification (PTM): addition of a ubiquitin to the chain is catalyzed by E3 ligases, and removal of ubiquitin is catalyzed by a De-UBiquitylating enzyme (DUB). Nearly four decades ago, Goldbeter and Koshland discovered that reversible PTM cycles function like on-off switches when the substrates are at saturating concentrations. Although this finding has had profound implications for the understanding of switch-like behavior in biochemical networks, the general behavior of PTM cycles subject to synthesis and degradation has not been studied. Using a mathematical modeling approach, we found that simply introducing protein turnover to a standard modification cycle has profound effects, including significantly reducing the switch-like nature of the response. Our findings suggest that many classic results on PTM cycles may not hold in vivo where protein turnover is ubiquitous. We also found that proteins sharing an E3 ligase can have closely related changes in their expression levels. These results imply that it may be difficult to interpret experimental results obtained from either overexpressing or knocking down protein levels, since changes in protein expression can be coupled via E3 ligase crosstalk. Understanding crosstalk and competition for E3 ligases will be key in ultimately developing a global picture of protein homeostasis. Previous work has shown that substrates of Post-Translational Modification (PTM) cycles can have coupled responses if those substrates share enzymes. This implies that modifications leading to substrate degradation (e.g. ubiquitylation by an E3 ligase) could introduce coupling in concentrations of substrates sharing a ligase. Using mathematical models, we found adding protein turnover to a PTM cycle diminishes both sensitivity and ultrasensitivity, particularly in models admitting long ubiquitin chains. We also found that proteins sharing an E3 ligase can indeed have coupled changes in both expression and sensitivity to signals. These results imply that accounting for crosstalk in protein degradation networks is crucial for the interpretation of results from a wide variety of common experimental perturbations to living systems.
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- Abhishek Mallela
- Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Lyons BJE, Strynadka NCJ. On the road to structure-based development of anti-virulence therapeutics targeting the type III secretion system injectisome. MEDCHEMCOMM 2019; 10:1273-1289. [PMID: 31534650 PMCID: PMC6748289 DOI: 10.1039/c9md00146h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The type III secretion system injectisome is a syringe-like multimembrane spanning nanomachine that is essential to the pathogenicity but not viability of many clinically relevant Gram-negative bacteria, such as enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Due to the rise in antibiotic resistance, new strategies must be developed to treat the growing spectre of drug resistant infections. Targeting the injectisome via an 'anti-virulence strategy' is a promising avenue to pursue as an alternative to the more commonly used bactericidal therapeutics, which have a high propensity for resulting resistance development and often more broad killing profile, including unwanted side effects in eliminating favourable members of the microbiome. Building on more than a decade of crystallographic work of truncated or isolated forms of the more than two dozen components of the secretion apparatus, recent advances in the field of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy have allowed for the elucidation of atomic resolution structures for many of the type III secretion system components in their assembled, oligomerized state including the needle complex, export apparatus and ATPase. Cryo-electron tomography studies have also advanced our understanding of the direct pathogen-host interaction between the type III secretion system translocon and host cell membrane. These new structural works that further our understanding of the myriad of protein-protein interactions that promote injectisome function will be highlighted in this review, with a focus on those that yield promise for future anti-virulence drug discovery and design. Recently developed inhibitors, including both synthetic, natural product and peptide inhibitors, as well as promising new developments of immunotherapeutics will be discussed. As our understanding of this intricate molecular machinery advances, the development of anti-virulence inhibitors can be enhanced through structure-guided drug design.
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- Bronwyn J E Lyons
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Center for Blood Research , University of British Columbia , 2350 Health Sciences Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z3 , Canada .
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Center for Blood Research , University of British Columbia , 2350 Health Sciences Mall , Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z3 , Canada .
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Lombardi C, Tolchard J, Bouillot S, Signor L, Gebus C, Liebl D, Fenel D, Teulon JM, Brock J, Habenstein B, Pellequer JL, Faudry E, Loquet A, Attrée I, Dessen A, Job V. Structural and Functional Characterization of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) Needle of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:573. [PMID: 31001211 PMCID: PMC6455054 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The type three secretion system (T3SS) is a macromolecular protein nano-syringe used by different bacterial pathogens to inject effectors into host cells. The extracellular part of the syringe is a needle-like filament formed by the polymerization of a 9-kDa protein whose structure and proper localization on the bacterial surface are key determinants for efficient toxin injection. Here, we combined in vivo, in vitro, and in silico approaches to characterize the Pseudomonas aeruginosa T3SS needle and its major component PscF. Using a combination of mutagenesis, phenotypic analyses, immunofluorescence, proteolysis, mass spectrometry, atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, and molecular modeling, we propose a model of the P. aeruginosa needle that exposes the N-terminal region of each PscF monomer toward the outside of the filament, while the core of the fiber is formed by the C-terminal helix. Among mutations introduced into the needle protein PscF, D76A, and P47A/Q54A caused a defect in the assembly of the needle on the bacterial surface, although the double mutant was still cytotoxic on macrophages in a T3SS-dependent manner and formed filamentous structures in vitro. These results suggest that the T3SS needle of P. aeruginosa displays an architecture that is similar to that of other bacterial needles studied to date and highlight the fact that small, targeted perturbations in needle assembly can inhibit T3SS function. Therefore, the T3SS needle represents an excellent drug target for small molecules acting as virulence blockers that could disrupt pathogenesis of a broad range of bacteria.
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- Charlotte Lombardi
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nanoobjects, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (CBMN), UMR5248 CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nanoobjects, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (CBMN), UMR5248 CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nanoobjects, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (CBMN), UMR5248 CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France.,Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory (LNBio), Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), Campinas, Brazil
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), Grenoble, France.,Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Bacterial Pathogenesis and Cellular Responses Group, U1036 INSERM, ERL5261 CNRS, CEA, Grenoble, France
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Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are protein transport nanomachines that are found in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens and symbionts. Resembling molecular syringes, T3SSs form channels that cross the bacterial envelope and the host cell membrane, which enable bacteria to inject numerous effector proteins into the host cell cytoplasm and establish trans-kingdom interactions with diverse hosts. Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy and integrative imaging have provided unprecedented views of the architecture and structure of T3SSs. Furthermore, genetic and molecular analyses have elucidated the functions of many effectors and key regulators of T3SS assembly and secretion hierarchy, which is the sequential order by which the protein substrates are secreted. As essential virulence factors, T3SSs are attractive targets for vaccines and therapeutics. This Review summarizes our current knowledge of the structure and function of this important protein secretion machinery. A greater understanding of T3SSs should aid mechanism-based drug design and facilitate their manipulation for biotechnological applications.
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