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ArticleScientific reports2017

Disparate subcellular location of putative sortase substrates in Clostridium difficile.

Johann Peltier, Helen A Shaw, Brendan W Wren, Neil F Fairweather

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Johann PeltierCentre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Helen A ShawCentre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Brendan W WrenDepartment of Pathogen Molecular Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, UK.
Neil F FairweatherCentre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. n.fairweather@imperial.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-3224-0207

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K000551/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clostridium difficile is a gastrointestinal pathogen but how the bacterium colonises this niche is still little understood. Sortase enzymes covalently attach specific bacterial proteins to the peptidoglycan cell wall and are often involved in colonisation by pathogens. Here we show C. difficile proteins CD2537 and CD3392 are functional substrates of sortase SrtB. Through manipulation of the C-terminal regions of these proteins we show the SPKTG motif is essential for covalent attachment to the cell wall. Two additional putative substrates, CD0183 which contains an SPSTG motif, and CD2768 which contains an SPQTG motif, are not cleaved or anchored to the cell wall by sortase. Finally, using an in vivo asymmetric cleavage assay, we show that despite containing a conserved SPKTG motif, in the absence of SrtB these proteins are localised to disparate cellular compartments.

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Amino Acid MotifsAminoacyltransferasesBacterial ProteinsCell WallClostridioides difficileCysteine EndopeptidasesProtein BindingProtein TransportProteolysisSubstrate SpecificityAminoacyltransferasesBacterial ProteinsCysteine Endopeptidasessortase B

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PMID28835650
PMCPMC5569036

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