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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2007

The Amino terminus of Bacillus subtilis TagB possesses separable localization and functional properties.

Amit P Bhavsar, Michael A D'Elia, Tiffany D Sahakian, Eric D Brown

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Amit P BhavsarAntimicrobial Research Centre, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada.
Michael A D'Elia
Tiffany D Sahakian
Eric D Brown

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The function(s) of gram-positive wall teichoic acid is emerging with recent findings that it is an important virulence factor in the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and that it is crucial to proper rod-shaped cell morphology of Bacillus subtilis. Despite its importance, our understanding of teichoic acid biosynthesis remains incomplete. The TagB protein has been implicated in the priming step of poly(glycerol phosphate) wall teichoic acid synthesis in B. subtilis. Work to date indicates that the TagB protein is localized to the membrane, where it adds a single glycerol phosphate residue to the nonreducing end of the undecaprenol-phosphate-linked N-acetylmannosamine-beta(1,4)-N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate. Thus, membrane association is critical to TagB function. In this work we elucidate the mechanism of TagB membrane localization. We report the identification of a membrane targeting determinant at the amino terminus of TagB that is necessary and sufficient for membrane localization. The putative amphipathicity of this membrane targeting determinant was characterized and shown to be required for TagB function but not localization. This work shows for the first time that the amino terminus of TagB mediates membrane targeting and protein function.

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Amino Acid SequenceBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsCell WallGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic Complementation TestMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, InsertionalMutationTeichoic AcidsBacterial ProteinsTeichoic Acids

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PMID17660278
PMCPMC2045227

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