Identification of a bacterial factor required for actin-based motility of Burkholderia pseudomallei |
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Authors: | Stevens Mark P Stevens Joanne M Jeng Robert L Taylor Lowrie A Wood Michael W Hawes Pippa Monaghan Paul Welch Matthew D Galyov Edouard E |
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Affiliation: | Division of Microbiology, Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Berkshire, RG20 7NN, UK. |
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Abstract: | Burkholderia pseudomallei is a Gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogen that enters and escapes from eukaryotic cells using the power of actin polymerization. We have identified a bacterial protein (BimA) that is required for the ability of B. pseudomallei to induce the formation of actin tails. BimA contains proline-rich motifs and WH2-like domains and shares limited homology at the C-terminus with the Yersinia autosecreted adhesin YadA. BimA is located at the pole of the bacterial cell at which actin polymerization occurs and mutation of bimA abolished actin-based motility of the pathogen in J774.2 cells. Transient expression of BimA in HeLa cells resulted in F-actin clustering reminiscent of that seen on WASP overexpression. Antibody-mediated clustering of a CD32 chimera in which the cytoplasmic domain was replaced with BimA resulted in localization of the chimera to the tips of F-actin enriched membrane protrusions. We report that purified truncated BimA protein binds monomeric actin in a concentration-dependent manner in cosedimentation assays and that BimA stimulates actin polymerization in vitro in a manner independent of the cellular Arp2/3 complex. |
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