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Carmine G. Monteferrante Calum MacKichan Elodie Marchadier Maria‐Victoria Prejean Rut Carballido‐López Jan Maarten van Dijl 《Proteomics》2013,13(5):800-811
Bacteria employ twin‐arginine translocation (Tat) pathways for the transport of folded proteins to extracytoplasmic destinations. In recent years, most studies on bacterial Tat pathways addressed the membrane‐bound TatA(B)C subunits of the Tat translocase, and the specific interactions between this translocase and its substrate proteins. In contrast, relatively few studies investigated possible coactors in the TatA(B)C‐dependent protein translocation process. The present studies were aimed at identifying interaction partners of the Tat pathway of Bacillus subtilis, which is a paradigm for studies on protein secretion by Gram‐positive bacteria. Specifically, 36 interaction partners of the TatA and TatC subunits were identified by rigorous application of the yeast two‐hybrid (Y2H) approach. Our Y2H analyses revealed that the three TatA isoforms of B. subtilis can form homo‐ and heterodimers. Subsequently, the secretion of the Tat substrates YwbN and PhoD was tested in mutant strains lacking genes for the TatAC interaction partners identified in our genome‐wide Y2H screens. Our results show that the cell wall‐bound protease WprA is important for YwbN secretion, and that the HemAT and CsbC proteins are required for PhoD secretion under phosphate starvation conditions. Taken together, our findings imply that the Bacillus Tat pathway is embedded in an intricate protein–protein interaction network. 相似文献
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The innate immune repertoire in Cnidaria - ancestral complexity and stochastic gene loss 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
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Miller DJ Hemmrich G Ball EE Hayward DC Khalturin K Funayama N Agata K Bosch TC 《Genome biology》2007,8(4):R59
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Characterization of the innate immune repertoire of extant cnidarians is of both fundamental and applied interest - it not only provides insights into the basic immunological 'tool kit' of the common ancestor of all animals, but is also likely to be important in understanding the global decline of coral reefs that is presently occurring. Recently, whole genome sequences became available for two cnidarians, Hydra magnipapillata and Nematostella vectensis, and large expressed sequence tag (EST) datasets are available for these and for the coral Acropora millepora. 相似文献25.
Monteferrante CG Baglieri J Robinson C van Dijl JM 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2012,78(14):4999-5001
Two independent twin-arginine translocases (Tat) for protein secretion were previously identified in the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. These consist of the TatAd-TatCd and TatAy-TatCy subunits. The function of a third TatA subunit named TatAc was unknown. Here, we show that TatAc can form active protein translocases with TatCd and TatCy. 相似文献
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Laxmi Krishnappa Carmine G. Monteferrante Jan Maarten van Dijl 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2012,78(21):7801-7804
Bacterial twin-arginine translocases can export fully folded proteins from the cytoplasm. Such proteins are usually resistant to proteolysis. Here we show that multiple extracellular proteases degrade the B. subtilis Tat substrate YwbN. This suggests either that secreted YwbN is not fully folded or that folded YwbN exposes protease cleavage sites. 相似文献
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René van der Ploeg Carmine G. Monteferrante Sjouke Piersma James P. Barnett Thijs R. H. M. Kouwen Colin Robinson Jan Maarten van Dijl 《Applied and environmental microbiology》2012,78(21):7733-7744
The Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis contains two Tat translocases, which can facilitate transport of folded proteins across the plasma membrane. Previous research has shown that Tat-dependent protein secretion in B. subtilis is a highly selective process and that heterologous proteins, such as the green fluorescent protein (GFP), are poor Tat substrates in this organism. Nevertheless, when expressed in Escherichia coli, both B. subtilis Tat translocases facilitated exclusively Tat-dependent export of folded GFP when the twin-arginine (RR) signal peptides of the E. coli AmiA, DmsA, or MdoD proteins were attached. Therefore, the present studies were aimed at determining whether the same RR signal peptide-GFP precursors would also be exported Tat dependently in B. subtilis. In addition, we investigated the secretion of GFP fused to the full-length YwbN protein, a strict Tat substrate in B. subtilis. Several investigated GFP fusion proteins were indeed secreted in B. subtilis, but this secretion was shown to be completely Tat independent. At high-salinity growth conditions, the Tat-independent secretion of GFP as directed by the RR signal peptides from the E. coli AmiA, DmsA, or MdoD proteins was significantly enhanced, and this effect was strongest in strains lacking the TatAy-TatCy translocase. This implies that high environmental salinity has a negative influence on the avoidance of Tat-independent secretion of AmiA-GFP, DmsA-GFP, and MdoD-GFP. We conclude that as-yet-unidentified control mechanisms reject the investigated GFP fusion proteins for translocation by the B. subtilis Tat machinery and, at the same time, set limits to their Tat-independent secretion, presumably via the Sec pathway. 相似文献
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CG Monteferrante M Miethke R van der Ploeg C Glasner JM van Dijl 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2012,287(35):29789-29800
The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is dedicated to the transport of fully folded proteins across the cytoplasmic membranes of many bacteria and the chloroplast thylakoidal membrane. Accordingly, Tat-dependently translocated proteins are known to be delivered to the periplasm of Gram-negative bacteria, the growth medium of Gram-positive bacteria, and the thylakoid lumen. Here, we present the first example of a protein, YkuE of Bacillus subtilis, that is specifically targeted by the Tat pathway to the cell wall of a Gram-positive bacterium. The cell wall binding of YkuE is facilitated by electrostatic interactions. Interestingly, under particular conditions, YkuE can also be targeted to the cell wall in a Tat-independent manner. The biological function of YkuE was so far unknown. Our present studies show that YkuE is a metal-dependent phosphoesterase that preferentially binds manganese and zinc. 相似文献
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Sabine Milde Georg Hemmrich Friederike Anton-Erxleben Konstantin Khalturin Jörg Wittlieb Thomas CG Bosch 《Genome biology》2009,10(1):R8-16
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Despite decades of research, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the evolution of morphological diversity remain poorly understood. While current models assume that species-specific morphologies are governed by differential use of conserved genetic regulatory circuits, it is debated whether non-conserved taxonomically restricted genes are also involved in making taxonomically relevant structures. The genomic resources available in Hydra, a member of the early branching animal phylum Cnidaria, provide a unique opportunity to study the molecular evolution of morphological novelties such as the nematocyte, a cell type characteristic of, and unique to, Cnidaria. 相似文献30.
Single-copy nuclear DNAs (scnDNAs) of eight species of arvicoline and six
species of murine rodents were compared using DNA-DNA hybridization. The
branching pattern derived from the DNA comparisons is congruent with the
fossil evidence and supported by comparative biochemical, chromosomal, and
morphological studies. The recently improved fossil record for these
lineages provides seven approximate divergence dates, which were used to
calibrate the DNA-hybridization data. The average rate of scnDNA divergence
was estimated as 2.5%/Myr. This is approximately 10 times the rate in the
hominoid primates. These results agree with previous reports of accelerated
DNA evolution in muroid rodents and extend the DNA-DNA hybridization data
set of Brownell.
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