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ArticleMolecular microbiology2014

FhaC takes a bow to FHA in the two-partner do-si-do.

Nicholas Noinaj, Susan K Buchanan

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas NoinajNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
Susan K Buchanan
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

structural characterization of bacterial secretion channelsZIADK036139 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BUCHANAN, SUSAN · 2009 to 2025
$19.3M
Structural characterization of outer membrane proteins from Yersinia pestisZIADK011011 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BUCHANAN, SUSAN · 2009 to 2025
$19.1M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK036139
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

FhaC is an outer membrane transporter from Bordetella pertussis belonging to the two-partner secretion (TPS) pathway with its primary role being the secretion of the virulence factor filamentous haemagglutinin (FHA). FhaC serves as a model transporter of the TPS pathway and significant work has been done to characterize the role of FhaC in FHA secretion. Recent studies characterized interactions between FHA and the POTRA domains of FhaC, suggesting that secretion may involve a successive translocation mechanism mediated by β-augmentation and/or electrostatic interactions. Moreover, it was also shown that reconstituted FhaC is necessary and sufficient to transport FHA into proteoliposomes. While the crystal structure of FhaC clearly suggests a role in transport, the putative transport pore is plugged by an N-terminal α-helix (H1 helix) that occludes access by FHA. Therefore, it has been proposed that the H1 helix must be expelled from the pore in order for secretion of FHA to occur. However, this has yet to be shown experimentally. Guérin et al. (2014) report the first direct experimental evidence to show that the FhaC H1 helix is quite dynamic and exchanges between closed and open states upon interaction with FHA.

Indexed as

Bacterial Secretion SystemsAdhesins, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBordetella pertussisVirulence Factors, BordetellaAdhesins, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial Secretion SystemsfhaC protein, Bordetella pertussisfilamentous hemagglutinin adhesin, Bordetella pertussisVirulence Factors, Bordetella

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