The Structure of the Salmonella typhimurium Type III Secretion System Needle Shows Divergence from the Flagellar System |
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Authors: | Vitold E Galkin Wolfgang H Schmied Oliver Schraidt Thomas C Marlovits Edward H Egelman |
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Institution: | 1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0733, USA 2 Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr. Bohr Gasse 7, A-1030 Vienna, Austria 3 Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bohr Gasse 3-5, A-1030 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | The type III secretion system (T3SS) is essential for the infectivity of many pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria. The T3SS contains proteins that form a channel in the inner and outer bacterial membranes, as well as an extracellular needle that is used for transporting and injecting effector proteins into a host cell. The homology between the T3SS and the bacterial flagellar system has been firmly established, based upon both sequence similarities between respective proteins in the two systems and the structural homology of higher-order assemblies. It has previously been shown that the Shigella flexneri needle has a helical symmetry of ∼ 5.6 subunits/turn, which is quite similar to that of the most intensively studied flagellar filament (from Salmonella typhimurium), which has ∼ 5.5 subunits/turn. We now show that the Sa. typhimurium needle, expected by homology arguments to be more similar to the Sa. typhimurium flagellar filament than is the needle from Shigella, actually has ∼ 6.3 subunits/turn. It is not currently understood how host cell contact, made at the tip of the needle, is communicated to the secretory system at the base. In contrast to the Sa. typhimurium flagellar filament, which shows a nearly crystalline order, the Sa. typhimurium needle has a highly variable symmetry, which could be used to transmit information about host cell contact. |
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Keywords: | T3SS type III secretion system cryo-EM cryo-electron microscopy IHRSR iterative helical real space reconstruction STEM scanning transmission electron microscopy EDTA ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid LDAO lauryldimethylamine oxide |
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