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ArticleInfection and immunity2004

Release of periplasmic proteins of Brucella suis upon acidic shock involves the outer membrane protein Omp25.

Rose-Anne Boigegrain, Imed Salhi, Maria-Teresa Alvarez-Martinez, Jan Machold, Yann Fedon, Martine Arpagaus, Christoph Weise, Michael Rittig, Bruno Rouot

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Rose-Anne BoigegrainINSERM U431, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France.
Imed Salhi
Maria-Teresa Alvarez-Martinez
Jan Machold
Yann Fedon
Martine Arpagaus
Christoph Weise
Michael Rittig
Bruno Rouot
Inserm · FRUniversité de Montpellier · FRFreie Universität Berlin · DEQueen's Medical Centre · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The survival and replication of Brucella in macrophages is initially triggered by a low intraphagosomal pH. In order to identify proteins released by Brucella during this early acidification step, we analyzed Brucella suis conditioned medium at various pH levels. No significant proteins were released at pH 4.0 in minimal medium or citrate buffer, whereas in acetate buffer, B. suis released a substantial amount of soluble proteins. Comparison of 13 N-terminal amino acid sequences determined by Edman degradation with their corresponding genomic sequences revealed that all of these proteins possessed a signal peptide indicative of their periplasmic location. Ten proteins are putative substrate binding proteins, including a homologue of the nopaline binding protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The absence of this homologue in Brucella melitensis was due to the deletion of a 7.7-kb DNA fragment in its genome. We also characterized for the first time a hypothetical 9.8-kDa basic protein composed of five amino acid repeats. In B. suis, this protein contained 9 repeats, while 12 were present in the B. melitensis orthologue. B. suis in acetate buffer depended on neither the virB type IV secretory system nor the omp31 gene product. However, the integrity of the omp25 gene was required for release at acidic pH, while the absence of omp25b or omp25c displayed smaller effects. Together, these results suggest that Omp25 is involved in the membrane permeability of Brucella in acidic medium.

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AcetatesAcidsAmino Acid SequenceArginineBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBase SequenceBrucella suisBuffersCell Surface ExtensionsGenes, BacterialGenomicsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMacrophagesMolecular Sequence DataMutationPeriplasmic ProteinsAcetatesAcidsArginineBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBuffersnopalineOmp31 protein, Brucella melitensisPeriplasmic ProteinsRiboseVirulence Factors

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PMID15385468
PMCPMC517528
OpenAlexW2168375371

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