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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2011

The assembly mode of the pseudopilus: a hallmark to distinguish a novel secretion system subtype.

Eric Durand, Sébastien Alphonse, Céline Brochier-Armanet, Geneviève Ball, Badreddine Douzi, Alain Filloux, Cédric Bernard, Romé Voulhoux

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  8. Type IV pilin proteins: versatile molecular modules.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2012
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  9. On the path to uncover the bacterial type II secretion system.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012
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Eric DurandLaboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires (LISM-UPR9027), CNRS, Université de la Méditerranée, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
Sébastien Alphonse
Céline Brochier-Armanet
Geneviève Ball
Badreddine Douzi
Alain Filloux
Cédric Bernard
Romé Voulhoux

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Abstract

In gram-negative bacteria, type II secretion systems assemble a piston-like structure, called pseudopilus, which expels exoproteins out of the cell. The pseudopilus is constituted by a major pseudopilin that when overproduced multimerizes into a long cell surface structure named hyper-pseudopilus. Pseudomonas aeruginosa possesses two type II secretion systems, Xcp and Hxc. Although major pseudopilins are exchangeable among type II secretion systems, we show that XcpT and HxcT are not. We demonstrate that HxcT does not form a hyper-pseudopilus and is different in amino acid sequence and multimerization properties. Using structure-based mutagenesis, we observe that five mutations are sufficient to revert HxcT into a functional XcpT-like protein, which also becomes capable of forming a hyper-pseudopilus. Phylogenetic and experimental analysis showed that the whole Hxc system was acquired by P. aeruginosa PAO1 and other Pseudomonas species through horizontal gene transfer. We thus identified a new type II secretion subfamily, of which the P. aeruginosa Hxc system is the archetype. This finding demonstrates how similar bacterial machineries evolve toward distinct mechanisms that may contribute specific functions.

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Bacterial ProteinsEvolution, MolecularPseudomonas aeruginosaBacterial Secretion SystemsFimbriae, BacterialGene Transfer, HorizontalBacterial ProteinsBacterial Secretion Systems

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PMID21586577
PMCPMC3129219

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