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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2012

Expanded roles for multicargo and class 1B effector chaperones in type III secretion.

Nikhil A Thomas, Irene Ma, Madhulika E Prasad, Cheryl Rafuse

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Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Infection and immunity · 2025
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  3. Experimental Approaches to Visualize Effector Protein Translocation During Host-Pathogen Interactions.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  4. FEMS microbes · 2025
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  5. Computational prediction of secreted proteins in gram-negative bacteria.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2021
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  6. eLife · 2019
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  8. The Loss of Expression of a Single Type 3 Effector (CT622) Strongly ReducesFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2018
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  16. Conserved type III secretion system exerts important roles in Chlamydia trachomatis.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Nikhil A ThomasDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. n.thomas@dal.ca
Irene Ma
Madhulika E Prasad
Cheryl Rafuse

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP84472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial type III secretion systems (T3SS) are complex protein assemblies that mediate the secretion of protein substrates outside the cell. Type III secretion chaperones (T3SC) are always found associated with T3SS, and they serve in multiple roles to ensure that protein substrates are efficiently targeted for secretion. Bacterial pathogens with T3SS express T3SC proteins that bind effectors, a process important for effector protein delivery into eukaryotic cells during infection. In this minireview, we focus on multicargo and class 1B T3SC that associate with effectors within significant pathogens of animals and plants. As a primary role, multicargo and class 1B T3SC form homodimers and specifically bind different effectors within the cytoplasm, maintaining the effectors in a secretion-competent state. This role makes T3SC initial and central contributors to effector-mediated pathogenesis. Recent findings have greatly expanded our understanding of cellular events linked to multicargo T3SC function. New binding interactions with T3SS components have been reported in different systems, thereby implicating multicargo T3SC in critical roles beyond effector binding. Three notable interactions with the YscN, YscV, and YscQ family members are well represented in the literature. Similar T3SC interactions are reported in the putative related flagellar T3SS, suggesting that secretion mechanisms may be more similar than previously thought. The evidence implicates multicargo and class 1B T3SC in effector binding and stabilization, in addition to T3SS recruitment and docking events.

Indexed as

Bacterial Secretion SystemsAnimalsBacterial ProteinsModels, BiologicalMolecular ChaperonesPlantsProtein BindingVirulence FactorsBacterial ProteinsBacterial Secretion SystemsMolecular ChaperonesVirulence Factors

Identifiers

PMID22636784
PMCPMC3416526

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