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ArticleInfection and immunity2009

The membrane localization domain is required for intracellular localization and autoregulation of YopE in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

Elin L Isaksson, Margareta Aili, Anna Fahlgren, Sara E Carlsson, Roland Rosqvist, Hans Wolf-Watz

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elin L IsakssonDepartment of Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Molecular Infectious Medicine, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.
Margareta Aili
Anna Fahlgren
Sara E Carlsson
Roland Rosqvist
Hans Wolf-Watz
Umeå University · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent work has shown that a domain of YopE of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ranging from amino acids 54 to 75 (R. Krall, Y. Zhang, and J. T. Barbieri, J. Biol. Chem. 279:2747-2753, 2004) is required for proper localization of YopE after ectopic expression in eukaryotic cells. This domain, called the membrane localization domain (MLD), has not been extensively studied in Yersinia. Therefore, an in cis MLD deletion mutant of YopE was created in Y. pseudotuberculosis. The mutant was found to secrete and translocate YopE at wild-type levels. However, the mutant was defective in the autoregulation of YopE expression after the infection of HeLa cells. Although the mutant translocated YopE at wild-type levels, it showed a delayed HeLa cell cytotoxicity. This delay was not caused by a change in GTPase activating protein (GAP) activity, since the mutant showed wild-type YopE GAP activity toward Rac1 and RhoA. The MLD mutant displayed a changed intracellular localization pattern of YopE in HeLa cells after infection, and the YopEDeltaMLD protein was found to be dispersed within the whole cell, including the nucleus. In contrast, wild-type YopE was found to localize to the perinuclear region of the cell and was not found in the nucleus. In addition, the yopEDeltaMLD mutant was avirulent. Our results suggest that YopE must target proteins other than RhoA and Rac1 and that the MLD is required for the proper targeting and hence virulence of YopE during infection. Our results raise the question whether YopE is a regulatory protein or a "true" virulence effector protein.

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Amino Acid SequenceBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueHeLa CellsHumansMolecular Sequence DataProtein TransportYersinia pseudotuberculosisYersinia pseudotuberculosis InfectionsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsyopE protein, Yersinia

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PMID19687205
PMCPMC2772527
OpenAlexW2139147534

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