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Gao G, Liu X, Gu Z, Mu Q, Zhu G, Zhang T, Zhang C, Zhou L, Shen L, Sun T. Engineering Nanointerfaces of Au 25 Clusters for Chaperone-Mediated Peptide Amyloidosis. Nano Lett 2022; 22:2964-2970. [PMID: 35297644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Synthetic nanomaterials possessing biomolecular-chaperone functions are good candidates for modulating physicochemical interactions in many bioapplications. Despite extensive research, no general principle to engineer nanomaterial surfaces is available to precisely manipulate biomolecular conformations and behaviors, greatly limiting attempts to develop high-performance nanochaperone materials. Here, we demonstrate that, by quantifying the length (-SCxR±, x = 3-11) and charges (R- = -COO-, R+ = -NH3+) of ligands on Au25 gold nanochaperones (AuNCs), simulating binding sites and affinities of amyloid-like peptides with AuNCs, and probing peptide folding and fibrillation in the presence of AuNCs, it is possible to precisely manipulate the peptides' conformations and, thus, their amyloidosis via customizing AuNCs nanointerfaces. We show that intermediate-length liganded AuNCs with a specific charge chaperone peptides' native conformations and thus inhibit their fibrillation, while other types of AuNCs destabilize peptides and promote their fibrillation. We offer a microscopic molecular insight into peptide identity on AuNCs and provide a guideline in customizing nanochaperones via manipulating their nanointerfaces.
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- Guanbin Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
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The chaperone-usher (CU) pathway is a conserved secretion system dedicated to the assembly of a superfamily of virulence-associated surface structures by a wide range of Gram-negative bacteria. Pilus biogenesis by the CU pathway requires two specialized assembly components: a dedicated periplasmic chaperone and an integral outer membrane assembly and secretion platform termed the usher. The CU pathway assembles a variety of surface fibers, ranging from thin, flexible filaments to rigid, rod-like organelles. Pili typically act as adhesins and function as virulence factors that mediate contact with host cells and colonization of host tissues. Pilus-mediated adhesion is critical for early stages of infection, allowing bacteria to establish a foothold within the host. Pili are also involved in modulation of host cell signaling pathways, bacterial invasion into host cells, and biofilm formation. Pili are critical for initiating and sustaining infection and thus represent attractive targets for the development of antivirulence therapeutics. Such therapeutics offer a promising alternative to broad-spectrum antibiotics and provide a means to combat antibiotic resistance and treat infection while preserving the beneficial microbiota. A number of strategies have been taken to develop antipilus therapeutics, including vaccines against pilus proteins, competitive inhibitors of pilus-mediated adhesion, and small molecules that disrupt pilus biogenesis. Here we provide an overview of the function and assembly of CU pili and describe current efforts aimed at interfering with these critical virulence structures.
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To interact with the external environments, bacteria often display long proteinaceous appendages on their cell surface, called pili or fimbriae. These non-flagellar thread-like structures are polymers composed of covalently or non-covalently interacting repeated pilin subunits. Distinct pilus classes can be identified on basis of their assembly pathways, including chaperone-usher pili, type V pili, type IV pili, curli and fap fibers, conjugative and type IV secretion pili, as well as sortase-mediated pili. Pili play versatile roles in bacterial physiology, and can be involved in adhesion and host cell invasion, DNA and protein secretion and uptake, biofilm formation, cell motility and more. Recent advances in structure determination of components involved in the various pilus systems has enabled a better molecular understanding of their mechanisms of assembly and function. In this chapter we describe the diversity in structure, biogenesis and function of the different pilus systems found in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and review their potential as anti-microbial targets.
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- Magdalena Lukaszczyk
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
- Structural and Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium.
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Gram-negative bacteria assemble a variety of surface structures, including the hair-like organelles known as pili or fimbriae. Pili typically function in adhesion and mediate interactions with various surfaces, with other bacteria, and with other types of cells such as host cells. The chaperone/usher (CU) pathway assembles a widespread class of adhesive and virulence-associated pili. Pilus biogenesis by the CU pathway requires a dedicated periplasmic chaperone and integral outer membrane protein termed the usher, which forms a multifunctional assembly and secretion platform. This review addresses the molecular and biochemical aspects of the CU pathway in detail, focusing on the type 1 and P pili expressed by uropathogenic Escherichia coli as model systems. We provide an overview of representative CU pili expressed by E. coli and Salmonella, and conclude with a discussion of potential approaches to develop antivirulence therapeutics that interfere with pilus assembly or function.
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- Glenn T. Werneburg
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Solanki V, Tiwari M, Tiwari V. Host-bacteria interaction and adhesin study for development of therapeutics. Int J Biol Macromol 2018; 112:54-64. [PMID: 29414732 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.01.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2017] [Revised: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Host-pathogen interaction is one of the most important areas of study to understand the adhesion of the pathogen to the host organisms. To adhere on the host cell surface, bacteria assemble the diverse adhesive structures on its surface, which play a foremost role in targeting to the host cell. We have highlighted different bacterial adhesins which are either protein mediated or glycan mediated. The present article listed examples of different bacterial adhesin proteins involved in the interactions with their host, types and subtypes of the fimbriae and non-fimbriae bacterial adhesins. Different bacterial surface adhesin subunits interact with host via different host surface biomolecules. We have also discussed the interactome of some of the pathogens with their host. Therefore, the present study will help researchers to have a detailed understanding of different interacting bacterial adhesins and henceforth, develop new therapies, adhesin specific antibodies and vaccines, which can effectively control pathogenicity of the pathogens.
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- Vandana Solanki
- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305817, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305817, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer 305817, India.
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Bao R, Liu Y, Savarino SJ, Xia D. Off-pathway assembly of fimbria subunits is prevented by chaperone CfaA of CFA/I fimbriae from enterotoxigenic E. coli. Mol Microbiol 2016; 102:975-991. [PMID: 27627030 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Revised: 09/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The assembly of the class 5 colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae of enterotoxigenic E. coli was proposed to proceed via the alternate chaperone-usher pathway. Here, we show that in the absence of the chaperone CfaA, CfaB, the major pilin subunit of CFA/I fimbriae, is able to spontaneously refold and polymerize into cyclic trimers. CfaA kinetically traps CfaB to form a metastable complex that can be stabilized by mutations. Crystal structure of the stabilized complex reveals distinctive interactions provided by CfaA to trap CfaB in an assembly competent state through donor-strand complementation (DSC) and cleft-mediated anchorage. Mutagenesis indicated that DSC controls the stability of the chaperone-subunit complex and the cleft-mediated anchorage of the subunit C-terminus additionally assist in subunit refolding. Surprisingly, over-stabilization of the chaperone-subunit complex led to delayed fimbria assembly, whereas destabilizing the complex resulted in no fimbriation. Thus, CfaA acts predominantly as a kinetic trap by stabilizing subunit to avoid its off-pathway self-polymerization that results in energetically favorable trimers and could serve as a driving force for CFA/I pilus assembly, representing an energetic landscape unique to class 5 fimbria assembly.
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- Rui Bao
- Division of Infectious Diseases, National Key Laboratory of Biotherapy/Collaborative Innovation Center of Biotherapy, West China Hospitals, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.,Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Enteric Diseases Department, Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, 20910-7500, USA
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- Enteric Diseases Department, Infectious Diseases Directorate, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, 20910-7500, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 20814-4799, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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Pakharukova N, Garnett JA, Tuittila M, Paavilainen S, Diallo M, Xu Y, Matthews SJ, Zavialov AV. Structural Insight into Archaic and Alternative Chaperone-Usher Pathways Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Pilus Biogenesis. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1005269. [PMID: 26587649 PMCID: PMC4654587 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Gram-negative pathogens express fibrous adhesive organelles that mediate targeting to sites of infection. The major class of these organelles is assembled via the classical, alternative and archaic chaperone-usher pathways. Although non-classical systems share a wider phylogenetic distribution and are associated with a range of diseases, little is known about their assembly mechanisms. Here we report atomic-resolution insight into the structure and biogenesis of Acinetobacter baumannii Csu and Escherichia coli ECP biofilm-mediating pili. We show that the two non-classical systems are structurally related, but their assembly mechanism is strikingly different from the classical assembly pathway. Non-classical chaperones, unlike their classical counterparts, maintain subunits in a substantially disordered conformational state, akin to a molten globule. This is achieved by a unique binding mechanism involving the register-shifted donor strand complementation and a different subunit carboxylate anchor. The subunit lacks the classical pre-folded initiation site for donor strand exchange, suggesting that recognition of its exposed hydrophobic core starts the assembly process and provides fresh inspiration for the design of inhibitors targeting chaperone-usher systems.
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- Natalia Pakharukova
- Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku, JBL, Arcanum, Turku, Finland
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- Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku, JBL, Arcanum, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku, JBL, Arcanum, Turku, Finland
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- Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku, JBL, Arcanum, Turku, Finland
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Proteinaceous, nonflagellar surface appendages constitute a variety of structures, including those known variably as fimbriae or pili. Constructed by distinct assembly pathways resulting in diverse morphologies, fimbriae have been described to mediate functions including adhesion, motility, and DNA transfer. As these structures can represent major diversifying elements among Escherichia and Salmonella isolates, multiple fimbrial classification schemes have been proposed and a number of mechanistic insights into fimbrial assembly and function have been made. Herein we describe the classifications and biochemistry of fimbriae assembled by the chaperone/usher, curli, and type IV pathways.
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Zambelloni R, Marquez R, Roe AJ. Development of Antivirulence Compounds: A Biochemical Review. Chem Biol Drug Des 2014; 85:43-55. [DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Revised: 08/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Riccardo Zambelloni
- Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation; University of Glasgow; Sir Graeme Davies Building 120 University Place Glasgow G12 8TA UK
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry; University of Glasgow; Joseph Black Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry; University of Glasgow; Joseph Black Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry; University of Glasgow; Joseph Black Building Glasgow G12 8QQ UK
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The rise of multidrug resistant bacteria is a major worldwide health concern. There is currently an unmet need for the development of new and selective antibacterial drugs. Therapies that target and disarm the crucial virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria, while not actually killing the cells themselves, could prove to be vital for the treatment of numerous diseases. This article discusses the main surface architectures of pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria and the small molecules that have been discovered, which target their specific biogenesis pathways and/or actively block their virulence. The future perspective for the use of antivirulence compounds is also assessed.
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- David Steadman
- Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology, Birkbeck & University College London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Structural & Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Structural & Molecular Biology, Birkbeck & University College London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Structural & Molecular Microbiology, Structural Biology Research Center, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Ford B, Verger D, Dodson K, Volkan E, Kostakioti M, Elam J, Pinkner J, Waksman G, Hultgren S. The structure of the PapD-PapGII pilin complex reveals an open and flexible P5 pocket. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:6390-7. [PMID: 23002225 DOI: 10.1128/JB.06651-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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P pili are hairlike polymeric structures that mediate binding of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to the surface of the kidney via the PapG adhesin at their tips. PapG is composed of two domains: a lectin domain at the tip of the pilus followed by a pilin domain that comprises the initial polymerizing subunit of the 1,000-plus-subunit heteropolymeric pilus fiber. Prior to assembly, periplasmic pilin domains bind to a chaperone, PapD. PapD mediates donor strand complementation, in which a beta strand of PapD temporarily completes the pilin domain's fold, preventing premature, nonproductive interactions with other pilin subunits and facilitating subunit folding. Chaperone-subunit complexes are delivered to the outer membrane usher where donor strand exchange (DSE) replaces PapD's donated beta strand with an amino-terminal extension on the next incoming pilin subunit. This occurs via a zip-in-zip-out mechanism that initiates at a relatively accessible hydrophobic space termed the P5 pocket on the terminally incorporated pilus subunit. Here, we solve the structure of PapD in complex with the pilin domain of isoform II of PapG (PapGIIp). Our data revealed that PapGIIp adopts an immunoglobulin fold with a missing seventh strand, complemented in parallel by the G1 PapD strand, typical of pilin subunits. Comparisons with other chaperone-pilin complexes indicated that the interactive surfaces are highly conserved. Interestingly, the PapGIIp P5 pocket was in an open conformation, which, as molecular dynamics simulations revealed, switches between an open and a closed conformation due to the flexibility of the surrounding loops. Our study reveals the structural details of the DSE mechanism.
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Crespo MD, Puorger C, Schärer MA, Eidam O, Grütter MG, Capitani G, Glockshuber R. Quality control of disulfide bond formation in pilus subunits by the chaperone FimC. Nat Chem Biol 2012; 8:707-13. [DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Accepted: 06/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Yu XD, Fooks LJ, Moslehi-Mohebi E, Tischenko VM, Askarieh G, Knight SD, Macintyre S, Zavialov AV. Large is fast, small is tight: determinants of speed and affinity in subunit capture by a periplasmic chaperone. J Mol Biol 2012; 417:294-308. [PMID: 22321795 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Revised: 12/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The chaperone/usher pathway assembles surface virulence organelles of Gram-negative bacteria, consisting of fibers of linearly polymerized protein subunits. Fiber subunits are connected through 'donor strand complementation': each subunit completes the immunoglobulin (Ig)-like fold of the neighboring subunit by donating the seventh β-strand in trans. Whereas the folding of Ig domains is a fast first-order process, folding of Ig modules into the fiber conformation is a slow second-order process. Periplasmic chaperones separate this process in two parts by forming transient complexes with subunits. Interactions between chaperones and subunits are also based on the principle of donor strand complementation. In this study, we have performed mutagenesis of the binding motifs of the Caf1M chaperone and Caf1 capsular subunit from Yersinia pestis and analyzed the effect of the mutations on the structure, stability, and kinetics of Caf1M-Caf1 and Caf1-Caf1 interactions. The results suggest that a large hydrophobic effect combined with extensive main-chain hydrogen bonding enables Caf1M to rapidly bind an early folding intermediate of Caf1 and direct its partial folding. The switch from the Caf1M-Caf1 contact to the less hydrophobic, but considerably tighter and less dynamic Caf1-Caf1 contact occurs via the zip-out-zip-in donor strand exchange pathway with pocket 5 acting as the initiation site. Based on these findings, Caf1M was engineered to bind Caf1 faster, tighter, or both faster and tighter. To our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt to rationally design an assembly chaperone with improved chaperone function.
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- Xiao Di Yu
- Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, BMC, SE-753 24 Uppsala, Sweden
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Klinth JE, Pinkner JS, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F, Uhlin BE, Axner O. Impairment of the biomechanical compliance of P pili: a novel means of inhibiting uropathogenic bacterial infections? Eur Biophys J 2012; 41:285-95. [PMID: 22237603 PMCID: PMC3281203 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-011-0784-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Revised: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 12/06/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Gram-negative bacteria often initiate their colonization by use of extended attachment organelles, so called pili. When exposed to force, the rod of helix-like pili has been found to be highly extendable, mainly attributed to uncoiling and recoiling of its quaternary structure. This provides the bacteria with the ability to redistribute an external force among a multitude of pili, which enables them to withstand strong rinsing flows, which, in turn, facilitates adherence and colonization processes critical to virulence. Thus, pili fibers are possible targets for novel antibacterial agents. By use of a substance that compromises compliance of the pili, the ability of bacteria to redistribute external forces can be impaired, so they will no longer be able to resist strong urine flow and thus be removed from the host. It is possible such a substance can serve as an alternative to existing antibiotics in the future or be a part of a multi-drug. In this work we investigated whether it is possible to achieve this by targeting the recoiling process. The test substance was purified PapD. The effect of PapD on the compliance of P pili was assessed at the single organelle level by use of force-measuring optical tweezers. We showed that the recoiling process, and thus the biomechanical compliance, in particular the recoiling process, can be impaired by the presence of PapD. This leads to a new concept in the search for novel drug candidates combating uropathogenic bacterial infections--"coilicides", targeting the subunits of which the pilus rod is composed.
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- Jeanna E Klinth
- Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
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Puorger C, Vetsch M, Wider G, Glockshuber R. Structure, Folding and Stability of FimA, the Main Structural Subunit of Type 1 Pili from Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains. J Mol Biol 2011; 412:520-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2011] [Revised: 07/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Cai X, Wang R, Filloux A, Waksman G, Meng G. Structural and functional characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa CupB chaperones. PLoS One 2011; 6:e16583. [PMID: 21304995 PMCID: PMC3031594 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2010] [Accepted: 12/22/2010] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an important human pathogen, is estimated to be responsible for ∼10% of nosocomial infections worldwide. The pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa starts from its colonization in the damaged tissue or medical devices (e.g. catheters, prothesis and implanted heart valve etc.) facilitated by several extracellular adhesive factors including fimbrial pili. Several clusters containing fimbrial genes have been previously identified on the P. aeruginosa chromosome and named cup[1]. The assembly of the CupB pili is thought to be coordinated by two chaperones, CupB2 and CupB4. However, due to the lack of structural and biochemical data, their chaperone activities remain speculative. In this study, we report the 2.5 Å crystal structure of P. aeruginosa CupB2. Based on the structure, we further tested the binding specificity of CupB2 and CupB4 towards CupB1 (the presumed major pilus subunit) and CupB6 (the putative adhesin) using limited trypsin digestion and strep-tactin pull-down assay. The structural and biochemical data suggest that CupB2 and CupB4 might play different, but not redundant, roles in CupB secretion. CupB2 is likely to be the chaperone of CupB1, and CupB4 could be the chaperone of CupB4:CupB5:CupB6, in which the interaction of CupB4 and CupB6 might be mediated via CupB5.
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- Xun Cai
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at UCL/Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (GM); (AF)
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at UCL/Birkbeck, London, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- * E-mail: (GM); (AF)
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Chorell E, Bengtsson C, Sainte-Luce Banchelin T, Das P, Uvell H, Sinha AK, Pinkner JS, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. Synthesis and application of a bromomethyl substituted scaffold to be used for efficient optimization of anti-virulence activity. Eur J Med Chem 2011; 46:1103-16. [PMID: 21316127 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2010] [Revised: 01/10/2011] [Accepted: 01/13/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Pilicides are a class of compounds that attenuate virulence in Gram negative bacteria by blocking the chaperone/usher pathway in Escherichia coli. It has also been shown that compounds derived from the peptidomimetic scaffold that the pilicides are based on can prevent both Aβ aggregation and curli formation. To facilitate optimizations towards the different targets, a new synthetic platform has been developed that enables fast and simple introduction of various substituents in position C-7 on the peptidomimetic scaffold. Importantly, this strategy also enables introduction of previously unattainable heteroatoms in this position. Pivotal to the synthetic strategy is the synthesis of a C-7 bromomethyl substituted derivative of the ring-fused dihydrothiazolo 2-pyridone pilicide scaffold. From this versatile and reactive intermediate various heteroatom-linked substituents could be introduced on the scaffold including amines, ethers, amides and sulfonamides. In addition, carbon-carbon bonds could be introduced to the sp(3)-hybridized bromomethyl substituted scaffold by Suzuki-Miyaura cross couplings. Evaluation of the 24 C-7 substituted compounds in whole-bacterial assays provided important structure-activity data and resulted in the identification of a number of new pilicides with activity as good or better than those developed previously.
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- Erik Chorell
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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Chorell E, Pinkner JS, Phan G, Edvinsson S, Buelens F, Remaut H, Waksman G, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. Design and synthesis of C-2 substituted thiazolo and dihydrothiazolo ring-fused 2-pyridones: pilicides with increased antivirulence activity. J Med Chem 2010; 53:5690-5. [PMID: 20586493 DOI: 10.1021/jm100470t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pilicides block pili formation by binding to pilus chaperones and blocking their function in the chaperone/usher pathway in E. coli. Various C-2 substituents were introduced on the pilicide scaffold by design and synthetic method developments. Experimental evaluation showed that proper substitution of this position affected the biological activity of the compound. Aryl substituents resulted in pilicides with significantly increased potencies as measured in pili-dependent biofilm and hemagglutination assays. The structural basis of the PapD chaperone-pilicide interactions was determined by X-ray crystallography.
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- Erik Chorell
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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Kline KA, Dodson KW, Caparon MG, Hultgren SJ. A tale of two pili: assembly and function of pili in bacteria. Trends Microbiol 2010; 18:224-32. [PMID: 20378353 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2009] [Revised: 11/25/2009] [Accepted: 03/05/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bacterial pili have long been recognized as mediators of initial host-pathogen interactions important for the progression of Gram-negative bacterial diseases. An appreciation of the role of pili on virulence in Gram-positive bacteria and the unique properties of their biogenesis is a rapidly emerging area of research. In this review, we focus on recent advances in one of the longest-studied Gram-negative pilus systems, the chaperone/usher assembled pili, along with the newcomer to the field, the sortase-assembled pili of Gram-positive bacteria. In both systems, a wealth of new structural and molecular details has emerged recently. In light of this, we explore similarities between chaperone/usher and sortase-assembled pilus biogenesis and highlight paradigms unique to each, with the goal of using knowledge of each system to raise new questions and inform future studies of the other.
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- Kimberly A Kline
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Rêgo AT, Chandran V, Waksman G. Two-step and one-step secretion mechanisms in Gram-negative bacteria: contrasting the type IV secretion system and the chaperone-usher pathway of pilus biogenesis. Biochem J 2010; 425:475-88. [PMID: 20070257 DOI: 10.1042/BJ20091518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Gram-negative bacteria have evolved diverse secretion systems/machineries to translocate substrates across the cell envelope. These various machineries fulfil a wide variety of functions but are also essential for pathogenic bacteria to infect human or plant cells. Secretion systems, of which there are seven, utilize one of two secretion mechanisms: (i) the one-step mechanism, whereby substrates are translocated directly from the bacterial cytoplasm to the extracellular medium or into the eukaryotic target cell; (ii) the two-step mechanism, whereby substrates are first translocated across the bacterial inner membrane; once in the periplasm, substrates are targeted to one of the secretion systems that mediate transport across the outer membrane and released outside the bacterial cell. The present review provides an example for each of these two classes of secretion systems and contrasts the various solutions evolved to secrete substrates.
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Zav'yalov V, Zavialov A, Zav'yalova G, Korpela T. Adhesive organelles of Gram-negative pathogens assembled with the classical chaperone/usher machinery: structure and function from a clinical standpoint. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2009; 34:317-78. [PMID: 20070375 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2009.00201.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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This review summarizes current knowledge on the structure, function, assembly and biomedical applications of the superfamily of adhesive fimbrial organelles exposed on the surface of Gram-negative pathogens with the classical chaperone/usher machinery. High-resolution three-dimensional (3D) structure studies of the minifibers assembling with the FGL (having a long F1-G1 loop) and FGS (having a short F1-G1 loop) chaperones show that they exploit the same principle of donor-strand complementation for polymerization of subunits. The 3D structure of adhesive subunits bound to host-cell receptors and the final architecture of adhesive fimbrial organelles reveal two functional families of the organelles, respectively, possessing polyadhesive and monoadhesive binding. The FGL and FGS chaperone-assembled polyadhesins are encoded exclusively by the gene clusters of the γ3- and κ-monophyletic groups, respectively, while gene clusters belonging to the γ1-, γ2-, γ4-, and π-fimbrial clades exclusively encode FGS chaperone-assembled monoadhesins. Novel approaches are suggested for a rational design of antimicrobials inhibiting the organelle assembly or inhibiting their binding to host-cell receptors. Vaccines are currently under development based on the recombinant subunits of adhesins.
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The chaperone-usher (CU) pathway of pilus biogenesis is the most widespread of the five pathways that assemble adhesive pili at the surface of Gram-negative bacteria. Recent progress in the study of the structural biology of the CU pathway has unravelled the molecular basis of chaperone function and elucidated the mechanisms of fibre assembly at the outer membrane, leading to a comprehensive description of each step in the biogenesis pathway. Other studies have provided the molecular basis of host recognition by CU pili. The knowledge that has been gathered about both the assembly of and host recognition by CU pili has been harnessed to design promising antibiotic compounds.
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- Gabriel Waksman
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London and Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, UK.
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Huang Y, Smith BS, Chen LX, Baxter RH, Deisenhofer J. Insights into pilus assembly and secretion from the structure and functional characterization of usher PapC. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:7403-7. [PMID: 19380723 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902789106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ushers constitute a family of bacterial outer membrane proteins responsible for the assembly and secretion of surface organelles such as the pilus. The structure at 3.15-A resolution of the usher pyelonephritis-associated pili C (PapC) translocation domain reveals a 24-stranded kidney-shaped beta-barrel, occluded by an internal plug domain. The dimension of the pore allows tandem passage of individual folded pilus subunits in an upright pilus growth orientation, but is insufficient for accommodating donor strand exchange. The molecular packing revealed by the crystal structure shows that 2 PapC molecules in head-to-head orientation interact via exposed beta-strand edges, which could be the preferred dimer interaction in solution. In vitro reconstitution of fiber assemblies suggest that PapC monomers may be sufficient for fiber assembly and secretion; both the plug domain and the C-terminal domain of PapC are required for filament assembly, whereas the N-terminal domain is mainly responsible for recruiting the chaperone-subunit complexes to the usher. The plug domain has a dual function: gating the beta-pore and participating in pilus assembly.
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Berg V, Das P, Chorell E, Hedenström M, Pinkner JS, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. Carboxylic acid isosteres improve the activity of ring-fused 2-pyridones that inhibit pilus biogenesis in E. coli. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2008; 18:3536-40. [PMID: 18499455 PMCID: PMC3665338 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2008] [Revised: 05/05/2008] [Accepted: 05/05/2008] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Ring-fused 2-pyridones, termed pilicides, are small synthetic compounds that inhibit pilus assembly in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Their biological activity is clearly dependent upon a carboxylic acid functionality. Here, we present the synthesis and biological evaluation of carboxylic acid isosteres, including, for example, tetrazoles, acyl sulfonamides, and hydroxamic acids of two lead 2-pyridones. Two independent biological evaluations show that acyl sulfonamides and tetrazoles significantly improve pilicide activity against uropathogenic E. coli.
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- Veronica Berg
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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Remaut H, Tang C, Henderson NS, Pinkner JS, Wang T, Hultgren SJ, Thanassi DG, Waksman G, Li H. Fiber formation across the bacterial outer membrane by the chaperone/usher pathway. Cell 2008; 133:640-52. [PMID: 18485872 PMCID: PMC3036173 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Revised: 02/22/2008] [Accepted: 03/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Gram-negative pathogens commonly exhibit adhesive pili on their surfaces that mediate specific attachment to the host. A major class of pili is assembled via the chaperone/usher pathway. Here, the structural basis for pilus fiber assembly and secretion performed by the outer membrane assembly platform--the usher--is revealed by the crystal structure of the translocation domain of the P pilus usher PapC and single particle cryo-electron microscopy imaging of the FimD usher bound to a translocating type 1 pilus assembly intermediate. These structures provide molecular snapshots of a twinned-pore translocation machinery in action. Unexpectedly, only one pore is used for secretion, while both usher protomers are used for chaperone-subunit complex recruitment. The translocating pore itself comprises 24 beta strands and is occluded by a folded plug domain, likely gated by a conformationally constrained beta-hairpin. These structures capture the secretion of a virulence factor across the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria.
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- Han Remaut
- Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London and Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- These authors contributed equally to this work
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-5120, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-5120, USA
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- Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London and Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
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- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Zavialov A, Zav'yalova G, Korpela T, Zav'yalov V. FGL chaperone-assembled fimbrial polyadhesins: anti-immune armament of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2007; 31:478-514. [PMID: 17576202 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2007.00075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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This review summarizes the current knowledge on the structure, function, assembly, and biomedical applications of the family of adhesive fimbrial organelles assembled on the surface of Gram-negative pathogens via the FGL chaperone/usher pathway. Recent studies revealed the unique structural and functional properties of these organelles, distinguishing them from a related family, FGS chaperone-assembled adhesive pili. The FGL chaperone-assembled organelles consist of linear polymers of one or two types of protein subunits, each possessing one or two independent adhesive sites specific to different host cell receptors. This structural organization enables these fimbrial organelles to function as polyadhesins. Fimbrial polyadhesins may ensure polyvalent fastening of bacteria to the host cells, aggregating their receptors and triggering subversive signals that allow pathogens to evade immune defense. The FGL chaperone-assembled fimbrial polyadhesins are attractive targets for vaccine and drug design.
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- Anton Zavialov
- Department of Molecular Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Vitagliano L, Ruggiero A, Pedone C, Berisio R. A molecular dynamics study of pilus subunits: insights into pilus biogenesis. J Mol Biol 2007; 367:935-41. [PMID: 17306829 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.01.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2006] [Revised: 01/07/2007] [Accepted: 01/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Biogenesis of pili in the uropathogenic Echerichia coli, essential to the bacterial pathogenicity, is a complex molecular process, which involves several protein components of the Pap gene cluster. A crucial role in the process is played by the chaperone PapD and by the PapE pilus subunit. Interestingly, PapE exhibits an Ig-like fold with a missing strand. The missing G strand is donated by the chaperone during pilin folding and by adjacent pilus subunits in the final fibre. In order to obtain a detailed picture at atomic level of the molecular events related to this process, we undertook molecular dynamics studies of the non-canonical immuno-globulin-like PapE in its unliganded state. These analyses were extended to the complexes of PapE with the complementary G(1) strand of PapD and with the N-terminal extension of PapK. All three systems investigated were stable in the time interval considered (20 ns). However, significant differences in their local and overall flexibilities were detected. Notably, the equilibrated structure of unliganded PapE, which is difficult to characterise experimentally, displays unexpected features. Indeed, a significant rearrangement of the local structure of the groove, which hosts the complementary strands, is observed. This reorganisation, characterised by the formation of several new hydrogen bonds, leads to a closure of the groove that likely makes pilin polymerisation more difficult. These data suggest that chaperone release and pilin-pilin association must be concerted processes and that chaperone plays an important role in preventing pilin transitions towards states that are not prone to polymerise.
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- Luigi Vitagliano
- Istituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini, C.N.R., I-80134 Napoli, Italy
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Pinkner JS, Remaut H, Buelens F, Miller E, Åberg V, Pemberton N, Hedenström M, Larsson A, Seed P, Waksman G, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. Rationally designed small compounds inhibit pilus biogenesis in uropathogenic bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:17897-902. [PMID: 17098869 PMCID: PMC1693844 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606795103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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A chemical synthesis platform with broad applications and flexibility was rationally designed to inhibit biogenesis of adhesive pili assembled by the chaperone-usher pathway in Gram-negative pathogens. The activity of a family of bicyclic 2-pyridones, termed pilicides, was evaluated in two different pilus biogenesis systems in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Hemagglutination mediated by either type 1 or P pili, adherence to bladder cells, and biofilm formation mediated by type 1 pili were all reduced by approximately 90% in laboratory and clinical E. coli strains. The structure of the pilicide bound to the P pilus chaperone PapD revealed that the pilicide bound to the surface of the chaperone known to interact with the usher, the outer-membrane assembly platform where pili are assembled. Point mutations in the pilicide-binding site dramatically reduced pilus formation but did not block the ability of PapD to bind subunits and mediate their folding. Surface plasmon resonance experiments confirmed that the pilicide interfered with the binding of chaperone-subunit complexes to the usher. These pilicides thus target key virulence factors in pathogenic bacteria and represent a promising proof of concept for developing drugs that function by targeting virulence factors.
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- Jerome S. Pinkner
- *Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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- Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London/Birkbeck, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London/Birkbeck, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
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- *Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden; and
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- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden; and
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- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden; and
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- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden; and
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- *Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
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- Institute of Structural Molecular Biology, University College London/Birkbeck, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- *Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden; and
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Berg V, Sellstedt M, Hedenström M, Pinkner JS, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. Design, synthesis and evaluation of peptidomimetics based on substituted bicyclic 2-pyridones-targeting virulence of uropathogenic E. coli. Bioorg Med Chem 2006; 14:7563-81. [PMID: 16904898 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2006.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2006] [Accepted: 07/03/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Substituted bicyclic 2-pyridones, termed pilicides, are dipeptide mimetics that prevent pilus assembly in uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Here, we apply rational design to produce four classes of extended peptidomimetics based on two bioactive 2-pyridones. The key intermediate in the synthesis was an amino-functionalised 2-pyridone scaffold, which could be obtained via a mild and selective nitration and subsequent reduction. Procedures were then developed to further derivatize this amino-substituted core and a total of 24 extended peptidomimetics were synthesised and evaluated for chaperone affinity and in vivo antivirulence activity in P pili producing E. coli. Enhanced affinities for the target protein were observed within the generated set of compounds, while the ability to prevent pilus assembly in vivo was significantly decreased compared to the parent lead compounds. The results suggest that the limited in vivo potencies of the analogues are either uptake/distribution related or due to loss in binding specificity.
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- Veronica Berg
- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli assemble type 1 and P pili to colonize the bladder and kidney respectively. These pili are prototype structures assembled by the chaperone/usher secretion pathway. In this pathway, a periplasmic chaperone works together with an outer membrane (OM) usher to control the folding of pilus subunits, their assembly into a pilus fibre and secretion of the fibre to the cell surface. The usher serves as the assembly and secretion platform in the OM. The usher has distinct functional domains, with the N-terminus providing the initial targeting site for chaperone-subunit complexes and the C-terminus required for subsequent stages of pilus biogenesis. In this study, we investigated the molecular interactions occurring at the usher during pilus biogenesis and the function of the usher C-terminus. We provide genetic and biochemical evidence that the usher functions as a complex in the OM and that interaction of the pilus adhesin with the usher is critical to prime the usher for pilus biogenesis. Analysis of C-terminal truncation and substitution mutants of the P pilus usher PapC demonstrated that the C-terminus is required for proper binding of chaperone-subunit complexes to the usher and plays an important role in assembly of complete pili.
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- Stephane Shu Kin So
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5120, USA
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Successful establishment of infection by bacterial pathogens requires adhesion to host cells, colonization of tissues, and in certain cases, cellular invasion-followed by intracellular multiplication, dissemination to other tissues, or persistence. Bacteria use monomeric adhesins/invasins or highly sophisticated macromolecular machines such as type III secretion systems and retractile type IV pili to establish a complex host/pathogen molecular crosstalk that leads to subversion of cellular functions and establishment of disease.
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- Javier Pizarro-Cerdá
- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Paris, F-75015 France.
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Justice SS, Hunstad DA, Harper JR, Duguay AR, Pinkner JS, Bann J, Frieden C, Silhavy TJ, Hultgren SJ. Periplasmic peptidyl prolyl cis-trans isomerases are not essential for viability, but SurA is required for pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:7680-6. [PMID: 16267292 PMCID: PMC1280321 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.22.7680-7686.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Escherichia coli, FkpA, PpiA, PpiD, and SurA are the four known periplasmic cis-trans prolyl isomerases. These isomerases facilitate proper protein folding by increasing the rate of transition of proline residues between the cis and trans states. Genetic inactivation of all four periplasmic isomerases resulted in a viable strain that exhibited a decreased growth rate and increased susceptibility to certain antibiotics. Levels of the outer membrane proteins LamB and OmpA in the quadruple mutant were indistinguishable from those in the surA single mutant. In addition, expression of P and type 1 pili (adhesive organelles produced by uropathogenic strains of E. coli and assembled by the chaperone/usher pathway) were severely diminished in the absence of the four periplasmic isomerases. Maturation of the usher was significantly impaired in the outer membranes of strains devoid of all four periplasmic isomerases, resulting in a defect in pilus assembly. Moreover, this defect in pilus assembly and usher stability could be attributed to the absence of SurA. The data presented here suggest that the four periplasmic isomerases are not essential for growth under laboratory conditions but may have significant roles in survival in environmental and pathogenic niches, as indicated by the effect on pilus production.
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- Sheryl S Justice
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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In Escherichia coli, the CpxR/A two-component system senses various types of extracytoplasmic stresses and responds by activating the expression of genes encoding periplasmic protein folding and trafficking factors that clear such stresses to ensure the organism's survival. The cpxP gene encodes a small, stress-combative periplasmic protein and is the most strongly induced member of the Cpx regulon. We demonstrate that the Cpx stress response suppresses the toxicity associated with two misfolded proteins derived from the P pilus of uropathogenic E. coli and that mutations in either cpxP or the gene for the periplasmic protease DegP prevent suppression by preventing the degradation of these proteins. Strikingly, the presence of a periplasmic misfolded protein substrate significantly enhances the proteolysis of CpxP by DegP. Our data suggest that CpxP functions as a periplasmic adaptor protein that is required for the effective proteolysis of a subset of misfolded substrates by the DegP protease.
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- Daniel D Isaac
- Department of Molecular Biology, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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Hedenström M, Emtenäs H, Pemberton N, Aberg V, Hultgren SJ, Pinkner JS, Tegman V, Almqvist F, Sethson I, Kihlberg J. NMR studies of interactions between periplasmic chaperones from uropathogenic E. coli and pilicides that interfere with chaperone function and pilus assembly. Org Biomol Chem 2005; 3:4193-200. [PMID: 16294247 DOI: 10.1039/b511857c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Adherence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli to host tissue is mediated by pili, which are hair-like protein structures extending from the outer cell membrane of the bacterium. The chaperones FimC and PapD are key components in pilus assembly since they catalyse folding of subunits that are incorporated in type 1 and P pili, respectively, and also transport the subunits across the periplasmic space. Recently, compounds that inhibit pilus biogenesis and interfere with chaperone-subunit interactions have been discovered and termed pilicides. In this paper NMR spectroscopy was used to study the interaction of different pilicides with PapD and FimC in order to gain structural knowledge that would explain the effect that some pilicides have on pilus assembly. First relaxation-edited NMR experiments revealed that the pilicides bound to the PapD chaperone with mM affinity. Then the pilicide-chaperone interaction surface was investigated through chemical shift mapping using 15N-labelled FimC. Principal component analysis performed on the chemical shift perturbation data revealed the presence of three binding sites on the surface of FimC, which interacted with three different classes of pilicides. Analysis of structure-activity relationships suggested that pilicides reduce pilus assembly in E. coli either by binding in the cleft of the chaperone, or by influencing the orientation of the flexible F1-G1 loop, both of which are part of the surface by which the chaperone forms complexes with pilus subunits. It is suggested that binding to either of these sites interferes with folding of the pilus subunits, which occurs during formation of the chaperone-subunit complexes. In addition, pilicides that influence the F1-G1 loop also appear to reduce pilus formation by their ability to dissociate chaperone-subunit complexes.
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- Mattias Hedenström
- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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Thanassi DG, Stathopoulos C, Karkal A, Li H. Protein secretion in the absence of ATP: the autotransporter, two-partner secretion and chaperone/usher pathways of gram-negative bacteria (review). Mol Membr Biol 2005; 22:63-72. [PMID: 16092525 DOI: 10.1080/09687860500063290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Bacteria secrete a wide variety of proteins, many of which play important roles in virulence. In gram-negative bacteria, these proteins must cross the cytoplasmic or inner membrane, periplasm, and outer membrane to reach the cell surface. Gram-negative bacteria have evolved multiple pathways to allow protein secretion across their complex envelope. ATP is not available in the periplasm and many of these secretion pathways encode components that harness energy available at the inner membrane to drive secretion across the outer membrane. In contrast, the autotransporter, two-partner secretion and chaperone/usher pathways are comparatively simple systems that allow secretion across the outer membrane without the need for input of energy from the inner membrane. This review will present overviews of these 'self-sufficient' pathways, focusing on recent advances and secretion mechanisms. Similarities among the pathways and with other protein translocation mechanisms will be highlighted.
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- David G Thanassi
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5120, USA.
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Aberg V, Hedenström M, Pinkner JS, Hultgren SJ, Almqvist F. C-Terminal properties are important for ring-fused 2-pyridones that interfere with the chaperone function in uropathogenic E. coli. Org Biomol Chem 2005; 3:3886-92. [PMID: 16240004 DOI: 10.1039/b509376g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Virulence-associated organelles, termed pili or fimbriae, are assembled via the highly conserved chaperone-usher pathway in a vast number of pathogenic bacteria. Substituted bicyclic 2-pyridones, pilicides, inhibit pilus formation, possibly by interfering with the active site residues Arg8 and Lys112 of chaperones in uropathogenic E. coli. In this article we describe the synthesis and evaluation of nine analogues of a biologically active pilicide. Derivatization was performed with respect to its C-terminal features and the affinities for the chaperone PapD were studied with 1H relaxation-edited NMR spectroscopy. It could be concluded that the carboxylic acid functionality and also its spatial location was important for binding. In all cases, binding was significantly reduced or even abolished when the carboxylic acid was replaced by other substituents. In addition, in vivo results from a hemagglutination assay are presented where the derivatives have been evaluated for their ability to inhibit pilus formation in uropathogenic E. coli.
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- Veronica Aberg
- Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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